Awsworth

Awsworth is a village and civil parish in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England. Its population of 2,577 in the 2001 and 2,517 in the 2011 Census was estimated at 2,551 in 2019.[1] It lies near the edge of the Greater Nottingham area, between Kimberley and Ilkeston, Derbyshire. It has been a civil parish since 1894.[2]

Awsworth

The crossroads
Awsworth
Location within Nottinghamshire
Population2,517 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK4843
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNottingham
Postcode districtNG16
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

Church

The Parish Church of St Peter has a remaining chancel from the brick church of 1746 and a nave rebuilt in 1902–1903 by Naylor and Sale of Derby, in a freely adapted Gothic style. A projected north-west tower was 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, crossing the Erewash Valley to Ilkeston over the Bennerley Viaduct. This closed in September 1964. At Awsworth Junction, a short distance to the east, a branch line curved north to Pinxton. This line closed in January 1963.

Near the junction the line crossed a viaduct almost half a mile in length across the Giltbrook valley, known variously as Awsworth Viaduct, Giltbrook Viaduct and Kimberley Viaduct, but commonly by locals the "Forty Bridges", although the combined number of arches and girder spans was 43. This viaduct has been demolished, but the Bennerley Viaduct remains.

References
  1. City Population. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  2. History of Awsworth, accessed 4 November 2015.
  3. N. Pevsner (1951), Nottinghamshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 31.

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


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