Description in 1871:
EASTWOOD, a village and a parish in Basford district, Notts. The. village stands on the verge the county, adjacent to the Erewash river and canal, and the Erewash Valley railway, near Langley-Mill r. station, 9 miles NW by N of Nottingham; and has a post office under Nottingham, and fairs on the first Monday of May and the Monday after 11 Oct. The parish comprises 940 acres. Real property, £14,126; of which £9, 326 are in mines. Pop., 1,860. Houses, 383. The property is much subdivided. Coal is very extensively worked, and contains many fossils. Stocking-making also is largely carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £360. 8 Patron, J. I. Plumptre, Esq. The church is modern, and in the decorated English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
Eastwood
- The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2431 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2659 |
- The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Mary.
- There has been a church on this site since 1250.
- This church was rebuilt in 1858 on the site of the old church.
- The church was partially destroyed by fire in 1963, leaving the tower untouched. The fire had been started by two 15-year-old boys.
- The present church was added to the tower in 1967.
- The Notts Archives Office has the parish register covering the period from 1711 to 1834.
- The church was in the No. 1 deanery of Nottingham (or the rural deanery of Mansfield).
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1750-1859.
- The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1835.
- The Congregational chapel was opened in August, 1868.
- The Baptists also had a chapel here before 1883. The present Baptist chapel is on Percy Street.
- There is a modern-day Catholic Church on Nottingham Road.
- The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This village and parish lie 135 miles north of London and 8 miles north-west from Nottingham city. The parish boirders on Derbyshire, covers 940 acres and includes the hamlet of Langley Mill (which also lies partly in Heanor parish).
The Erewash River runs just west of the village. Nottingham Road is the principal street in the village. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A610 arterial road north-west out of Nottingham. The road passes along the southern edge of the village.
- Bus service is provided by Trent Barton.
- The nearest railway station is at Langley Mill.
- Much of the parish workforce was employed either as frame-work knitters or colliers in the 1800s. The Butterley Company owned and operated the colliery.
- The town library was established in 1840.
- The Mechanics Institution was built in 1864.
- This is the birthplace of D. H. LAWRENCE (1885 to 1930). From 1902 to 1906, LAWRENCE served as a Pupil Teacher at the British School in Eastwood.
- The national grid reference is SK 4646.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
There was a Boer War Memorial in the church, apparently destroyed by the fire. No known photographs exist. Luckily a newspaper article allowed the Roll of Honour to be captured for posterity.
The War Memorial was erected in 1921 and contains the list of men killed in World War I. The men of World War II were added after that war and the memorial was moved to Plumptre Way. We have a list of names from the monument provided by Dai Bevan.
- This place was an ancient parish in northern Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the south division of the ancient Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
- On 1 April, 1935, some 226 acres were gained from the Civil Parish of Greasley.
- Benjamin DRAWATER left the interest on £21 for distribution to the poor (prior to 1869).
- Thomas HARRISON left the interest on £100 for distribution to the poor (prior to 1869).
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
735 |
| 1821 |
1,206 |
| 1841 |
1,621 |
| 1861 |
1,860 |
| 1871 |
2,540 |
| 1881 |
3,566 |
| 1891 |
4,363 |
| 1901 |
4,815 |
| 1911 |
4,692 |
| 1921 |
5,069 |
| 1931 |
5,360 |
- In 1869 the parish had three National Schools for boys, girls and infants.
- In 1883 the National School was on Church Street.
- The Eastwood Junior School dates from 1910. This school is next to St. Mary's Church.
- The Eastwood Comprehensive School is a more recent school out on Mansfield Road.
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