Long Eaton

The Long Eaton Library is on Tamworth Road, just south of Broad Street. The Library was built in 1906, principally funded by a Carnegie Foundation grant.

The Library is normally open six days a week. And it has a Local Studies and Family History Section to help you with your searches.

David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Long Eaton Library on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Long Eaton Library on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2018.

Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Library gates on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2018.

Long Eaton is also served by the Mobile Library on route 5, which stops at the Wilsthorpe Tavern on every fourth Wednesday in the early afternoon.

REEDMAN, Keith A, "The Book of Long Eaton", publ. 1979. ISBN: 978-08602-30786

• The parish opened a cemetery of 6 acres in 1884.
   
• Long Eaton Cemetery accepted its first burial in 1884 and was finally closed to new burials in 1998. There is still room for ashes interments and burials in existing graves.
   
• The cemetery is under the administration of the Burial Board of the Erewash Borough Council.
   
• Long Eaton Cemetery Records 1884-1997 are held at the DRO on film No 677-678.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the mortuary chapel on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2007.
   
• And if you want a view without the mist and darkness, David LALLY has a photograph of the Long Eaton Cemetery Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
   
• We have a pop-up window of a partial extract of Parish Register burials in a file for your review. Your additions and corrections are welcomed.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence (also seen as "Laurence").
   
• Local legend dates the church to the 11 century, but it appears to be a 12th century construct..
   
• The church was repaired in 1831.
   
• The church seats 250.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure with British Heritage.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Laurence Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.

• The Derbyshire Record Office reference D3400 has deposited registers: Bapt 1813-2000, Mar. 1838-1997, Burials 1839-1882, Banns 1945-1948, 1958-1966.
   
• The Family History Library has the Bishop's Transcripts on Microfilm 0498098 item 2 for Baptisms 1817-1828 and 1830-1839.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1830. This chapel was passed on to the Reformist Methodists after the Wesleyans built a new chapel.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1854.
   
• Stephen BROOKS has a photograph of the Trinity Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2004. This church opened in 2004 to replace the older Methodist church.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Station Street Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2009. The chapel was built in 1877.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.

"LONG EATON, a township and district parish in the parish of Sawley, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 7½ miles S.W. of Nottingham, and 10 S.E. of Derby, its post town. It is a station on the Midland Counties railway. The village is situated near the Erwash canal. Owing to the greatly increased amount of railway traffic this place has recently much improved, and the village is now lighted with gas."

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

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• The transcription of the section for Long Eaton from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin HINSON.

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

The Architect John Frederick DODD was born here in 1872, the son of John Edmund DODD (1834-1894) and Orelie (1836-1918). He died on 13 July 1939 at his home 2 Waverley Street, Long Eaton. He designed a number of commercial and residential buildings in the area.

• West Park is a large, tree-filled area set aside in the northern part of the parish, just West of the B6540 arterial road.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Entrance to West Park on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2018.
   
• The Erewash Steam Fair is held, usually each year, in West Park in this parish.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of The Blue Bell Inn on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of The Stumble Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.
   
• David LALLY also has a photograph of the The Twitchel Inn on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the former Victoria Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Therm House Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2009. The name has changed yet again, but the location is the same!

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK496330 (Lat/Lon: 52.892322, -1.264011), Long Eaton 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.

• During WWI, the Red Cross set up a hospital at the Trent College site.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007. This cross was dedicated in 1920.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.

• Lance-corporal William NIX was wounded during a raid in World War One. His story is told in the Newark Great War Bulletin of 5 April, 1915.('Our Nottinghamshire' site)
   
• There are 20 Commonwealth War Graves in Long Eaton Cemetery for WWI and 21 for WWII.
   
• St. Paul's church has a Roll of Honour which is a two-sheet roll mounted in a pair of glazed frames. The roll is produced on paper in black calligraphy with blue highlights. The left panel has a gold cross at the head and the right one has a gold crown. The frames are of narrow wooden mouldings. The names on the Roll (all perished) are:

1. Andrew Adcock, pte. 4th Bn. Lincs Regt.
2. Ernest John Birkinshaw, sapper Royal Engineers
3. George Borough. captain 578th Aux. Horse Transport Coy.
4. Reginald Chambers
5. William Frederick Chambers
6. Thomas Clarke
7. John Thomas Duggan
8. Harry Fox
9. Harold Grace
10. Samuel Grace
11. George Henry Haskey
12. Charles E Hunt
13. Joseph, Ingram
14. Albert, E. Marshall
15. Charles, Frederick, Poole
16. William, George, Salt
17. George, Albert, Smith
18. Arthur, Smith
19. John Curzon Swindell, ldg. seaman, RNVR, S.S. "Greldon."
20. Joseph, J. Tatam, lcpl. 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles (middle name on CWGC is William)
21. Harry, Wildma
22. T. P. Cameron, Wilson
23. W. Everard, Yates, rifleman, King's Royal Rifle Corps

• Names from a history of Long Eaton & District, Derbyshire by Arthur HOOPER (1954), extracted by Mike FOSTER.

The Long Eaton Advertiser was published in the Parr's buildings, Market Place, on Fridays. Publication started in 1882.

,p>John WILSON was a 'bottlewander' in 1680. "Bottlewinders" were thatchers and 'bottle' then meant a bundle of straw; 'winder' or 'wander' meant a gatherer.

• This parish was in the ancient Morleston and Litchurch Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• Long Eaton was incorporated from part of Sawley Civil Parish as its own Civil Parish in December, 1866. It covered 2,100 acres in 1881.
   
• In October, 1921, this parish gained 99 acres from Sandiacre Civil Parish and 1,125 acres from Sawley and Wilsthorpe Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1934, this parish gained 236 acres when Sawley and Wilsthorpe Civil Parish was abolished.
   
• There has, over time, been a great deal of pressure to move Long Eaton into Nottingham county, but the residents are mostly happy with being in Derbyshire.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Derby petty session hearings, held here on alternate Tuesdays in Zion Hall.
   
• In 1786, John HOWITT gave £20 towards the poor of the parish. In 1856, this generated 20 shillings per year which was spread amongst the poor of the parish.
   
• As a result of the Poorlaw Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poorlaw Union.

• The Claye Street School was built in 1862 and enlarged in 1889 for 287 boys and girls and 238 infants. By 1911 it was at full capacity.
   
• The Derby Road School was built in 1885 for 650 children. It was enlarged in 1901 to hold 1,004 students.
   
• The High Street School was built in 1876 for 179 boys, 179 girls and 212 infants.
   
• The Sawley Road School was built in 1892-93 for 450 mixed and 200 infants.
   
• The Wellington Street School was built in 1911 for 320 girls and 320 infants.