BASFORD - a village history - from village to suburb - by Alf Bowley

From Nottingham’s Forest Recreation Ground through the present suburbs of Carrington, Mapperley Park, Sherwood, Basford and Heathfield, the Sherwood Forest extended north with the River Leen as its western boundary. From Norman times to 1877 these five suburbs and others beyond the Leen - Whitemoor, Aspley, Stockhill and Cinderhill - were all within the Parish of Basford. This book shows how these suburbs developed from a village on the edge of the forest where the main road from Nottingham divided to the north and west.

About the author -

Born and brought up in Basford, Alf Bowley served through World War 11 with the Grenadier Guards, followed by more than thirty years with the police in Nottingham. Retirement enabled him to explore the history of his birthplace and he is presently Vice- President of the Basford Local History Society. After a three-year part-time course at the University of Nottingham he has summarised in this book some of his researches.

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