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Draycott, Derbyshire
Draycott is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England. It lies around 6 miles east of Derby and 3 miles south-west of Long Eaton. Draycott is part of the civil parish of Draycott and Church Wilne. The population of this civil parish was 3,090 as taken at the 2011 Census. The meandering course of the River Derwent forms the southwestern boundary of the parish. The route of the former Derby Canal can still be traced across the parish. Trains on the Midland Main Line pass through the village but Draycott railway station is now closed. Elvaston Castle is nearby. History The name Draycott derives from resembling words ''dry coat'', as the village resides north of both the River Derwent and Church Wilne, a reservoir. In particularly rainy season the village used to flood, hence the name 'Dry Coat'. A prominent local family, which took its name from the village, included the eminent Irish judge Henry Draycott (1510-1572). Draycott was once an industrial town, ...
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Erewash (UK Parliament Constituency)
Erewash () is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Maggie Throup, a Conservative. Boundaries 1983–1997: The Borough of Erewash wards of Breaston, Cotmanhay, Dale Abbey, Derby Road East, Derby Road West, Draycott, Ilkeston Central, Ilkeston North, Ilkeston South, Kirk Hallam North, Kirk Hallam South, Long Eaton Central, Nottingham Road, Ockbrook and Borrowash, Old Park, Sandiacre North, Sandiacre South, Sawley, Victoria, West Hallam, and Wilsthorpe. 1997–2010: The Borough of Erewash wards of Abbotsford, Breaston, Cotmanhay, Dale Abbey, Derby Road East, Derby Road West, Draycott, Ilkeston Central, Ilkeston North, Ilkeston South, Kirk Hallam North, Kirk Hallam South, Long Eaton Central, Nottingham Road, Ockbrook and Borrowash, Old Park, Sandiacre North, Sandiacre South, Sawley, Victoria, West Hallam, and Wilsthorpe. 2010–present: The Borough of Erewash wards of Abbotsford, Breaston, Cotmanhay, Derby Road East, Derby Ro ...
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Listed Buildings In Draycott And Church Wilne
Draycott and Church Wilne is a civil parish in the Borough of Erewash district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 17 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, a .... Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Draycott, the hamlet of Church Wilne, and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are mill buildings in Draycott village, and the others consist of houses and associated structures, a church, a milepost, and three railway bridges. __NOTOC__ Key Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT ...
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John Winfield
Bernard John Winfield (born 28 February 1943) is a retired English footballer who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest. John Winfield scored on his debut for Forest at the City Ground against Blackpool on 3 February 1962. His last league appearance for Forest was on 24 April 1974 away at Aston Villa. He did play once more for Nottingham Forest on 13 May 1974 in his testimonial match against Leicester City Leicester ( ) is a city, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands. The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the National ... watched by 7824 people. References English men's footballers Men's association football forwards English Football League players Nottingham Forest F.C. players 1943 births Living people People from the Borough of Erewash Footballers from Derbyshire {{England-footy-forward-1940s-stub ...
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Nikki Brammeier
Nikki Louise Brammeier (née Harris; born 30 December 1986) is an English former professional racing cyclist from Draycott, Derbyshire. She began cycling at five and has won championships in various disciplines. Brammeier has competed in international events including the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics and the Commonwealth Games. She won her first UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in 2015 at Cyclo-cross Namur. In November 2017 Brammeier announced that she would be leaving the team at the end of the year in order to focus solely on cyclo-cross. The following month she and her husband Matt Brammeier announced the establishment of the MUDIIITA cyclo-cross project, intended to encourage participation in the sport in the UK, including a professional team known as MUDIIITA–Canyon. In June 2019 Brammeier announced her pregnancy and her retirement from cyclo-cross.
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Maurice Broomfield
Maurice William Broomfield (2 February 1916 – 4 October 2010) was an English photographer whose images of post-war British industry were credited with capturing the optimistic spirit of the time. Life and work Born in Draycott, Derbyshire, England, Broomfield was the son of a lace designer. On leaving school at 15, he worked as a lathe operator on the assembly lines of the engineering company Rolls-Royce. In the evenings he studied at Derby College of Art. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, working in the Friends Ambulance Unit as an ambulance driver in the London Blitz, and after the war for Save the Children in Germany. Broomfield's archive has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum. The British Library conducted an oral history interview (C459/194) with Maurice Broomfield in 2007 for its An Oral History of British Photography collection.
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Nicholas Williamson
Nicholas Williamson was an English lawyer and Catholic recusant in the 1590s. He was arrested in 1595 after planning a visit to the court of James VI of Scotland. The Jesuit William Crichton had hoped that Williamson would encourage the ambition of James VI for the throne of England. Oxfordshire background He was a younger son of Thomas Williamson of Tusmore, Oxfordshire. His mother, Bridget, was a daughter of Nicholas Williamson of Mears Ashby in Northamptonshire. Nicholas Williamson could write in Latin, a younger brother William Williamson attended St Edmund Hall, Oxford, while his cousins Francis and Edmund Williamson were at St John's College, Oxford together. In 1573 Nicholas Williamson married Anne Mordaunt, a daughter of William Mordaunt of Oakley and granddaughter of Lord Mordaunt. They had a daughter. In 1574 his father sold some of his land holding at Tusmore, but not the house, to Sir John Spencer of Althorp. Working for the Shrewsburys Nicholas Williamson work ...
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Great Wilne
Great Wilne is a small village in Derbyshire, England on the border with Leicestershire. It is south east of Derby. It is a village split from its church of St Chad's by the river. The church is at the very small hamlet of Church Wilne which can only be approached by a short walk via the bridge over the River Derwent, or by a fair car journey which necessitates travelling out of the county. The population at the 2011 Census is included in the civil parish of Shardlow and Great Wilne. History In 1009 Æþelræd Unræd (King Ethelred the Unready) signed a charter at the Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Westune.Aston on Trent Conservation Area History
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Breaston
Breaston ( ) is a large village and civil parish in the Erewash district, in the south-east of Derbyshire and lies approximately east of the city of Derby and west of the city of Nottingham. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 4,455. The settlement name Breaston means 'Braegd's farm/settlement': (Old English) for a personal name and 'tūn' (Old English) for either an enclosure, farmstead, village, etc. History Mentioned in the Domesday Book Survey of 1086, Breaston was a settlement in the Hundred of Morleystone wapentake and the county of Derbyshire. It had an estimated population of 15.8 households in 1086. At the time it was mentioned as belonging to Henry de Ferrers (Henry was given a large number of manors in Derbyshire including land in Swarkestone, Markeaton, Sinfin and Cowley) and being worth four shillings. The village Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building. Structural parts of the interior, for example "double-chamfered poi ...
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Severn Trent
Severn Trent plc is a water company based in Coventry, England. It supplies 4.6 million households and business across the Midlands and Wales. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Severn Trent, the trading name owned by the company, applies to a group of companies operating across the United Kingdom, United States and mainland Europe, with some involvement in the Middle East. It took its name from the two predecessor River Authorities, which managed the catchment of the Severn and the Trent. History The Severn Trent Water Authority was established in 1974. In July 1989, the Severn Trent Water Authority was partially privatised under the Water Act 1989, together with the rest of the water supply and sewage disposal industry in England and Wales, to form Severn Trent Water, with a responsibility to supply freshwater and treat sewage for around 8 million people living in the Midlands of England and also a small area of Wales ...
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Henry Draycott
Henry Draycott (c. 1510–1572) was an English-born Crown official and judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, who held a number of senior Government offices, including Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. Despite his apparent lack of legal qualifications, he also had a successful career as a judge, becoming a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) and Master of the Rolls in Ireland. He also became a substantial landowner in the Pale, with his principal estate at Mornington, County Meath. His daughter Alice died in mysterious circumstances after a banquet in Dublin Castle in 1576, as did the Earl of Essex, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; they were both allegedly victims of poisoning, although it is more likely that they both died a natural death. Background Draycott was a native of Denby in Derbyshire; his family name probably derives from the nearby village of Draycott. Little is known of his parents or of his early life. Despite his later eminence as a judge, it is not cl ...
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Borough Of Erewash
Erewash () is a local government district with borough status in Derbyshire, England, to the east of Derby and the west of Nottingham. The population of the district as taken at the 2011 Census was 112,081. It contains the towns of Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Sandiacre and fourteen civil parishes. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Ilkeston, the Long Eaton urban district and part of South East Derbyshire Rural District. The borough council's operations are split between Ilkeston Town Hall and Long Eaton Town Hall. Erewash Borough has military affiliations with 814 Naval Air Squadron Fleet Air Arm based at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose and the Mercian Regiment of the British Army, as the successors to the local regiment the Sherwood Foresters Council Erewash Borough Council has been controlled by the Conservatives since 2003, with Carol Hart being leader of the council since 2017. At the 2019 election the Conservatives won 27 s ...
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