Awsworth

Awsworth
The crossroads
Awsworth  Awsworth shown within Nottinghamshire
OS grid reference	SK4843
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire

Coordinates: 52°59′N 1°17′W / 52.99°N 1.28°W / 52.99; -1.28

Awsworth is a village and civil parish in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England. It had a population of 2,266 in 2001.^[1] The village is near the edge of the Greater Nottingham area, between Kimberley and Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

Awsworth has been a civil parish since 1894.^[2]

The parish church of St Peter consists of a remaining chancel from the brick church of 1746 and a nave which was rebuilt in 1902-03 by Naylor and Sale of Derby in a freely adapted Gothic style. A northwest tower was projected but never built.^[3]

Railways

These old Colliery Wagons stand on a traffic island marking the entrance to Awsworth

Awsworth once had a station on the Great Northern (later LNER) line from Nottingham to Derby which crossed the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct, closed in September 1964. At Awsworth Junction, a short distance to the east, a branch line curved away northwards to Pinxton. This line closed in January 1963. Near the junction it crossed a viaduct almost half a mile in length across the Giltbrook valley, known variously as Awsworth Viaduct, Giltbrook Viaduct, Kimberley Viaduct, but more commonly in the local area as the "Forty Bridges," though the actual combined number of arches and girder spans was 43. This viaduct is no more, but the Bennerley Viaduct is still in place.

References

Further reading

• Lee, John.M. (2006). A Brief History of Awsworth (First ed.). 
• Thoroton, Robert (1797). History of Nottinghamshire. John Throsby. pp. 250–251. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Awsworth.

• Awsworth Parish Council
• History of Awsworth
• Awsworth in the Domesday Book

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