Strelley (or Strelly)
As described in 1871:
"STRELLEY, a parish in Basford district, Notts; 2 miles E of Ilkeston r. station.
Post town, Nottingham. Acres, 1,050. Real property, £1,762. Pop., 253.
Houses, 48. The manor, with S. Hall, belongs to J. T. Edge, Esq. The living is a
rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £90. Patron, J. T. Edge, Esq. The
church was restored in 1855."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72
- The parish was in the Hucknall Torkard sub-district of the Basford Registration District:
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2442 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints and appears to be of Norman origin. It is a gorgeous little old church, that still contains some alabaster statues from Norman times, and also (under the carpet in the aisle), a superb Norman brass of a buried couple.
- All Saints Church was rebuilt by Sir Sampsone de STRELLEY about the year 1356.
- The church was restored and reseated in 1855.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1654 for baptisms; from 1676 for marriages and from 1678 for burials. All the registers are in good condition.
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1626-1848.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
- The parish was in the Hucknall Torkard sub-district of the Basford Registration District:
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Strelley is a parish and a scattered village 134 miles north of London, 5 miles west-north-west of Nottingham and 2 miles east of Ilkeston. The parish includes Catstone Hill about 1/2 mile south of the village.
If you are planning a visit:
- The village shares its name with a nearby post-WW2 housing estate. The village is separated from the housing estate by the A6002 road. The estate is actually in Nottingham city.
- By automobile, the parish lies just west of Nottingham, before you reach the M1 Motorway.
- The village is served by Nottingham City Transport service.
- Strelley is also notable for being 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. The village church can now easily be seen from the motorway just north of the Trowell services area.
- The national grid reference is SK 5041.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The village of Strelley was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the south division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1861 |
253 |
| 1871 |
232 |
| 1881 |
252 |
| 1891 |
204 |
| 1901 |
205 |
| 1911 |
197 |
| 1921 |
166 |
- Richard SMEDLEY founded a small school here in 1744.
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[Last updated: 5-January-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
