"SAWLEY, a parish in the hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 8½ miles S.E. of Derby, its post town, and 5¼ N.W. of Kegworth. It is a station on the Midland railway. The parish, which is situated on the rivers Trent and Derwent, includes the chapelries of Long Eaton and Breaston, and the hamlet of Wilsthorpe. The village, which is neatly built, was formerly a market town, and has the old market-house still standing. Some of the inhabitants are employed in frame-work knitting and cotton-spinning."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin HINSON ©2003]

The parish lies 123 miles north of the City of London and 8.5 miles south-east of Derby City. The River Derwent joins the River Trent in this parish. The parish covers about 1,860 acres.

Wilsthorpe is a hamlet in the parish and township of Sawley, 1.5 miles north of Sawley village.

New Sawley is the area just north of the railway line.

Andy JAMIESON has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2009.

David LALLY, however, has a photograph of the new, fancier village sign on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009.

Rodney WETTON captures the sunrise from Sawley Bridge on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.

They really are out to "get" you. Andy JAMIESON has a photograph of part of the golf course greenway on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2009.

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