Newstead, Nottinghamshire

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Newstead
Miner's Head Totem Pole - Detail - geograph.org.uk - 994755.jpg
Miner's Head Totem Pole
Newstead is located in Nottinghamshire
Newstead
Newstead
Location within Nottinghamshire
Population1,312 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK5252
Civil parish
  • Newstead
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNOTTINGHAM
Postcode districtNG15
Dialling code01623
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
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Nottinghamshire
53°04′12″N 1°13′19″W / 53.070°N 1.222°W / 53.070; -1.222Coordinates: 53°04′12″N 1°13′19″W / 53.070°N 1.222°W / 53.070; -1.222

Newstead is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England in the borough of Gedling.[1] It is situated between the city of Nottingham and the towns of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall.

A former coal mining village, and previously called Newstead Colliery Village. Lord Byron, the poet, lived at nearby Newstead Abbey. The parish is part of Nottinghamshire's Hidden Valleys. It has a population of 1,194,[2] increasing to 1,312 at the 2011 census.[3]

Newstead Primary School is a state run primary school for children aged 5 to 11.

Newstead railway station is on the Robin Hood Line, which runs from Nottingham to Worksop.

Newstead Colliery Village[]

The colliery village was built at Newstead in the late-19th century for miners at Newstead and Annesley Collieries.[4] Newstead Colliery operated between 1874 and 1987.

The former mining location has now been redeveloped into a nature reserve and business park. Hazelford Way Industrial Estate is home to several large companies including Bunches Florapost; Badgemaster; and Leivers and Millership.

Gallery[]

  • Terraced houses in Newstead

Notable people[]

References[]

  1. ^ OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000):ISBN 0 319 24040 1
  2. ^ "Parish Headcounts: Gedling". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  3. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  4. ^ Historic England, "Newstead Colliery Village (1038798)", Research records (formerly PastScape), retrieved 15 August 2015

External links[]

Media related to Newstead at Wikimedia Commons



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