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A Registered Charity in England & Wales (No. 09060) and Scotland (No. SCO42846) T h e P h y s i c a l L a n d s c a p e L e g a c y P h a s e 2 : T h e H e r i t a g e o f t h e N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e C o a l f i e l d R e p o r t N o 2 0 1 7 / 1 4 iii Key Project Information � Project Name The Physical Landscape Legacy Phase 2: The Heritage of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, Character Assessment and Management Report Title The Physical Landscape Legacy Phase 2: The Heritage of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, Character Assessment and Management Report status Final ArcHeritage Project No. 4177141 Type of Project Assessment Client Historic England Authors Glyn Davies, Mark Stenton, Jayne Rimmer, Christopher Atkinson Illustrations Karen Weston Editor Glyn Davies, Mark Stenton Report Number and Date 2017/14 31.1.2018 Version and filename V1 HE Notts Coal Phase 2 Title The Physical Landscape Legacy Phase 2: The Heritage of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, Character Assessment and Management Author(s) Glyn Davies, Mark Stenton, Jayne Rimmer, Christopher Atkinson, Derivation Follows on from The Physical Landscape Legacy: an assessment of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield Origination date 31.01.2017 HE project No. 6742 MAIN Reviser(s) Mark Stenton, Glyn Davies Date of last revision 20 Feb 2018 Version V2 Status Final File name HE Notts Coal Phase 2 T h e P h y s i c a l L a n d s c a p e L e g a c y P h a s e 2 : T h e H e r i t a g e o f t h e N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e C o a l f i e l d R e p o r t N o 2 0 1 7 / 1 4 iv CONTENTS � Preface .......................................................................................................................... 1 � 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 2 � 1.1 Project ................................................................................................................................... 2 � 1.2 Context and interactions ....................................................................................................... 3 � 2 Themes .................................................................................................................. 3 � 2.1 Industry ................................................................................................................................. 3 � 2.2 Transport ............................................................................................................................... 3 � 2.3 Settlement ............................................................................................................................. 3 � 2.4 Economic ............................................................................................................................... 4 � 2.5 Relationship to the wider world ............................................................................................ 4 � 2.6 Landscape and local society .................................................................................................. 4 � 3 Aims and Objectives ............................................................................................... 5 � 3.1 Project Aims .......................................................................................................................... 5 � 3.2 Stage 2 Project Objectives ..................................................................................................... 5 � 4 Project methodology .............................................................................................. 6 � 4.1 Steering group ....................................................................................................................... 6 � 4.2 Documentary research data collection ................................................................................. 6 � 4.3 Field survey............................................................................................................................ 8 � 4.4 Assessment of significance and vulnerability ........................................................................ 9 � 4.5 Community engagement ..................................................................................................... 10 � 5 Case study areas ................................................................................................... 12 � 6 Historic development of Nottinghamshire coal mining ........................................... 12 � 6.1 Early mining ......................................................................................................................... 12 � 6.2 Early post-medieval mining ................................................................................................. 13 � 6.3 Nineteenth century ............................................................................................................. 15 � 6.4 Twentieth and twenty-first centuries .................................................................................. 17 � 7 Strelley ................................................................................................................. 19 � 7.1 Location and historic context .............................................................................................. 19 � 7.2 Documentary research and history ..................................................................................... 19 � 7.3 Assessment of heritage assets in Strelley ........................................................................... 30 � 8 Selston ................................................................................................................. 37 � 8.1 Location and historic context .............................................................................................. 37 � 8.2 Documentary research and history ..................................................................................... 37 � 8.3 Assessment of heritage assets in Selston ............................................................................ 48 � 9. Eastwood ............................................................................................................. 55 � 9.1 Location and historic context .............................................................................................. 55 � 9.2 Documentary research and history ..................................................................................... 55 � 9.3 Assessment of heritage assets in Eastwood ........................................................................ 65 � 10 Hucknall ............................................................................................................... 75 � 10.1 Location and historic context .............................................................................................. 75 � T h e P h y s i c a l L a n d s c a p e L e g a c y P h a s e 2 : T h e H e r i t a g e o f t h e N o t t i n g h a m s h i r e C o a l f i e l d R e p o r t N o 2 0 1 7 / 1 4 v 10.2 Documentary research and history ..................................................................................... 75 � 10.3 Assessment of heritage assets in Hucknall .........................................................................