In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Beeston like this:
BEESTON, a parish in Basford district, Notts; on the Midland railway, adjacent to the river Trent, 3 ¼. miles SW of Nottingham. It contains the hamlet of Beeston-Ryelands; and has a station on the railway and a post office‡ under Nottingham. Acres, 1,440. Real property, £11,307. ...
Pop., 3,195. Houses, 698. The property is subdivided. There are a large silk-mill, and considerable manufacture of lace and hosiery. A canal, called the Beeston cut, goes off here from the river Trent to Nottingham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is a handsome structure of 1844, conjoined to the chancel of an old previous pile. A handsome parsonage was built in 1860. There are two Baptist chapels, two Methodist chapels, a public library, a national school, and charities £24.
Beeston through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Beeston, in Broxtowe and Nottinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/628
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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