S-Nottinghamshire A-Z: Strelley Traditional Cache
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S-Nottinghamshire A-Z: Strelley
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This cache is one of a series of 26, the Nottinghamshire A-Z, placed across the county by a team of 'Nottinghamshire Cachers'. The caches vary in type, size and difficulty.
Strelley is the name of a village and civil parish to the west of Nottingham. It is also the name of the nearby post war council housing estate. The village lies within Broxtowe, whilst the estate is in the City of Nottingham.
The village of Strelley was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 and has quite a secluded atmosphere as it is not on a through road for traffic, although bridleways ran from the village to Cossall to the west, and to Kimberley to the north.
Strelley is also notable for being the upper terminus of one of the earliest recorded railway lines in the world, the Wollaton Waggonway. The railway ran to Wollaton. Horse-drawn coal wagons travelled to their destination on wooden railway lines. This type of railway is known as a wagonway and it was completed during 1604. It was built by Huntingdon Beaumont working in partnership with the second occupier of Wollaton Hall, Sir Percival Willoughby.
Coal mining was a significant industry in Strelley during Elizabethan and Stuart times. Notable families involved in the early mining of Strelley included the Strelleys and the Byrons; it was a Byron who sub-leased the pits to Huntingdon Beaumont. During the 1960s much of the western part of Strelley parish was dominated by a huge opencast coal mine. After the opencast mine closed, the M1 motorway was constructed over the west of the parish. The village church can now easily be seen from the motorway just north of the Trowell services area.
Though this cache is only just on the border of Strelley, the view is stunning and overlooks a large part of Nottingham.
The cache itself is large enough for swaps and trackables.
We hope you enjoy the series. Happy Caching!
Additional Hints
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