Strelley
| Strelley | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK507419 |
| Location: | 52°58’19"N, 1°14’42"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 653 (2011) |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG8 |
| Dialling code: | 0115 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Broxtowe |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Broxtowe |
Strelley is a village to the west of Nottingham. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 653.
The village is separated from a like-named housing estate in the swollen townscape of Nottingham by the A6002 road.
Village
The village has quite a secluded atmosphere as it is not on a through-road for traffic, although bridleways ran from the village to Cossall to the west, and to Kimberley to the north. The old Broad Oak pub remains but has been partially modernised.
History
The village of Strelley was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, where it appears as Straleia. The name means 'street meadow', where 'stræt usually refers to a Roman road, but there is no known Roman road in the area.[1]
Strelley was the upper terminus of one of the earliest recorded railway lines in the world, the Wollaton Waggonway. The railway ran to Wollaton. Horse-drawn coal wagons travelled to their destination on wooden railway lines. This type of railway is known as a wagonway and it was completed during 1604. It was built by Huntingdon Beaumont working in partnership with the second occupier of Wollaton Hall, Sir Percival Willoughby.
Coal mining was a significant industry in Strelley during Elizabethan and Stuart times. Notable families involved in the early mining of Strelley included the Strelleys and the Byrons: it was a Byron who sub-leased the pits to Huntingdon Beaumont.
During the 1960s much of the western part of Strelley parish was dominated by a huge opencast coal mine. After the opencast mine closed, the M1 motorway was constructed over the west of the parish.
Parish church
The village church, All Saints' Church, can easily be seen from the motorway just north of the Trowell services area. The church,
About the village
The main television transmitter for Nottingham is in the parish, which takes signals from Waltham transmitting station.[2][3] The transmitter is also known as Swingate as it is east of Swingate Farm. The transmitter is next to the Kimberley parish boundary, and the Robin Hood Way. The transmitter base is at a height of around 430 feet, and near a trig point at Windmill Farm.
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References
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 450 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ Freeview Nottingham transmitter
- ↑ MB21 Nottingham transmitter
- Smith, R. S. (1989), Early Coal Mining Around Nottingham 1500 – 1650, University of Nottingham (out of print)