Nuthall is a village and
civil parish
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located in
Nottinghamshire
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, England, neighbouring
Kimberley
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,
Watnall, Cinderhill and
Basford. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 6,311.
It is part of the borough of
Broxtowe.
Nuthall is split into two areas, Old Nuthall, which lies between the Nuthall Island
roundabout
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and Kimberley, and New Nuthall, which lies between Bells Lane and Nuthall Island. New Nuthall also includes the Mornington Crescent Estate, a late 1980s/early 1990s exclusive development which borders
Strelley and the Hempshill Vale estate and occupies the former site of Assarts Farm. New Nuthall also borders Broxtowe Country Park and a bypass road (Woodhouse Way).
In comparison to New Nuthall, the houses in Old Nuthall tend to be smaller and less spread out. Old Nuthall is focused on the main roads of Nottingham Road, Kimberley Road and Watnall Road. It also includes the Larkfields estate a council estate with a large proportion of privately owned homes. These council homes are considerably smaller than other homes found in the Mornington Crescent Estate and Old Nuthall.
New Nuthall is largely detached 1960s/1970s houses situated on the Cedarlands/Horsendale estate. New Nuthall also includes the suburban housing estate known as Mornington/Assarts Farm. The estate has a popular school, a doctors surgery, and shop complex as well as a pub/restaurant, an Indian restaurant, making the estate largely self-contained.
(now demolished) was the stately home of the Holden family. Papers of the Holden family are held at the department of
Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham.
The
parish church is dedicated to St Patrick.
Captain
Ronald Thomas Shepherd
Ronald Thomas Shepherd Order of the British Empire, OBE (1896 – 1 March 1955) was a British aviator and test pilot for Rolls-Royce Limited, Rolls-Royce. He was the first person to fly an aircraft powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin aero-engine.
E ...
, of Highfield Road, Nuthall was awarded the OBE for his wartime services as chief test pilot for Rolls-Royce. He also made the first free flight of the
Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig, nicknamed the
Flying Bedstead at
Hucknall Aerodrome
Hucknall Aerodrome was a former general aviation and RAF aerodrome located north northwest of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England and west of Hucknall town. The aerodrome had been operated by the Merlin Flying Club since 1971, and then by R ...
. He died a few months later, 1 March 1955 and is buried in the New Farm Lane cemetery Nuthall, in the only grave which faces north - towards Hucknall airfield.
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Villages in Nottinghamshire
Places in the Borough of Broxtowe
Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire