Strelley is a village and civil parish in the

Borough of Broxtowe Broxtowe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England, west of the City of Nottingham. The population of the district as taken at the 2011 Census was 109,487. It is part of the Nottingham Urban Area. Broxtow ...

and

City of Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin ...

in Nottinghamshire, England. It is to the west of Nottingham. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 653. It is also the name of the nearby post war council housing estate. The village lies within the Broxtowe district, whilst the estate is in the

. The village is separated from the housing estate by the A6002 road.

Village

The village of Strelley was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086, where it appears as ''Straleia''. The name means 'clearing on a street or Roman road', though there is not known to be a Roman road in the area. The village has quite a secluded atmosphere as it is not on a through-road for traffic, although

bridleways A bridle path, also bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, ride, bridle road, or horse trail, is a trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses. Trails originally created for use by horses often now serve a wider r ...

ran from the village to

Cossall Cossall is a village and civil parish east of Ilkeston Ilkeston is a town in the Borough of Erewash, Derbyshire, England, on the River Erewash, from which the borough takes its name, with a population at the 2011 census of 38,640. Its ...

to the west, and to Kimberley to the north. The old Broad Oak

pub A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ...

remains but has been partially modernised. Strelley is also notable for being the upper terminus of one of the earliest recorded railway lines in the world, the

Wollaton Waggonway The Wollaton Wagonway (or Waggonway), built between October 1603 and 1604 in the East Midlands of England by Huntingdon Beaumont in partnership with Sir Percival Willoughby, has sometimes been credited as the world's first ''overground'' wago ...

. The railway ran to

Wollaton Wollaton is a suburb and former parish in the western part of Nottingham, England. Wollaton has two Wards in the City of Nottingham (''Wollaton East and Lenton Abbey'' and ''Wollaton West'') with a total population as at the 2011 census of 24,69 ...

. 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 Huntingdon Beaumont (c.1560–1624) was an English coal mining entrepreneur who built two of the earliest wagonways in England for trans-shipment of coal. He was less successful as a businessman and died having been imprisoned for debt. Beaumon ...

working in partnership with the second occupier of Wollaton Hall, Sir Percival Willoughby. Coal mining was a significant industry in Strelley during

Elizabethan The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The symbol of Britannia (a female personific ...

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

All Saints' Church, Strelley All Saints' Church, Strelley is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Strelley, Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South ...

can now easily be seen from the motorway just north of the

Trowell Trowell is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. It lies a few miles west of Nottingham, in the borough of Broxtowe on the border with Derbyshire. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,568, falling to 2,378 at ...

services area.

Geography

The main television transmitter for Nottingham is in the parish, which takes signals from Waltham.MB21 Nottingham transmitter
/ref> The transmitter is also known as

Swingate Swingate is a village near Dover in Kent, England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Sutton. See also * Swingate transmitting station The Swingate transmitting station is a facility for FM-transmission in the vi ...

as it is east of Swingate Farm. The transmitter is next to the Kimberley parish boundary, and the

Robin Hood Way The Robin Hood Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in the Midlands of England. Length The Robin Hood Way runs for . Route The Robin Hood way commemorates the famous folklore figure Robin Hood and starts from Nottingham Castle running ...

. The transmitter base is at a height of around 130 metres, and near a trig point at Windmill Farm.

References

*. Villages in Nottinghamshire Places in the Borough of Broxtowe Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub