Trowell

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

You can also find Library help at Ilkeston Library in Derbyshire and the Library at Stapleford which has a Local History Section.

• COOK, Alan J. "A History of Trowell", publ. 1995 by the Ilkeston and District Local History Society, 64 pages, ISBN 978-0902165144.

• The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• There was a church here in 801 AD.
   
• The 1086 Domesday Book records "a priest and half a church”.
   
• The present church was built in the 13th century.
   
• The church tower was built in 1480 out of local sandstone.
   
• The church was repaired in 1836.
   
• The church was restored in 1890.
   
• The church seats 200.
   
• The church is Grade II listed with British Heritage.
   
• See the History of St Helens Church for more history facts.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Trowell Church tower on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2013.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1560.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
   

• The parish was in the Ilkeston sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

Trowell is a village and a parish which lies only 5 miles west of Nottingham. The parish borders Derbyshire to the west and Stapleford to the south. The Erewash (or Ere Wash) River flows around the village to the south. The parish covers about 1,574 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Most of the village lies between the River Erewash (Derbyshire boundary) and Nottingham Canal.
   
• The M1 runs through Trowell village.
   
• Take the A609 west out of Nottingham to reach Trowell village.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Trowell to another place.

• The parish feast was on Whitsunday (seven weeks after Easter, typically early May).
   
• Coal was extracted from nearby mines from the 13th century until 1928.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK484397 (Lat/Lon: 52.952503, -1.281053), Trowell which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Inside the church, the South Aisle window is a memorial to Richard Jeffreys NICHOLLS, killed in France in 1916.
   
• Inside the church is a War Memorial brass from 1918.
   
• Inside the church is a wooden War Memorial plaque from 1945.
   

There are War Memorials in the church. To see the list of names on them, visit the Southwell Church History Project site.

These are the names inscribed on the war memorial above:

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the southern division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Trowell Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but do NOT ask them to do family history lookups for you.
   
• Parish Council meetings and other events are held in the Parish Hall in Stapleford Road.
   
• District governance is provided by the Broxtowe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1788.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	235
1851	392
1861	343
1871	270
1881	421
1891	414
1901	434
1911	404
1921	360
1931	435
1951	1,536

• A National School was built here in 1843.