Pub Guide - Real Ale. Erewash Valley.

A = Accommodation
C = Real Cider
M = Car Parking
W = Disabled Access
K = Children's’ Room
O = Outdoor Drinking Area
T = Train Station nearby
G = Traditional Games
L = Lunches Available
E = Evening Meals Available
F = Real Fire
R = Outstanding interior on National Inventory
X = Cask Marque

Sawley - Formerly know as 'Saller Ferry', and now divided into New and Old Sawley this is the southern most residential part of Long Eaton near the Leicestershire border. Founded by a band of monks who rowed up the River Trent from Repton.

Long Eaton - At the lower end of the Erewash Valley a mile or so from the River Trent, Long Eaton is the most easterly town in Derbyshire. Known to the Saxons as Aitone (the town by the water) it was held by the Danes until 874. It's present size and prosperity are owed to the canals, railways and lace mills, although other industries are now abound. The artist, Dame Laura Knight, the first woman to become a Royal Academician, was born here. The town has a popular shopping centre and there is a wide range of sports facilities including angling, boating and sailing. The old railway transhipment basin is now a popular marina, but a somewhat bigger boating playground is Trent Lock just a couple of miles south of the town.

Stanton-by-Dale - The most conspicuous sight from the M1 is the collection of iron buildings, waste-tips and glowing furnaces that make up the massive ironworks, but the rural character of the village itself, with its slender cross, orderly lawns and colourful flowerbeds, is virtually unaffected by the industrial development round about. The delightful Dale Abbey, with its wooden windmill, hermit’s cave and tiny church, in which Alan-a-Dale is supposed to have wed, is but a short walk away. The Nutbrook Canal, alas, has completely vanished.

Ilkeston - Standing on a hill above the Erewash Valley, industrial Ilkeston is the 3rd largest town in Derbyshire. Written in the Doomsday Book as Tilchestune it is known colloquially as ‘Ilson’, by which name it was known to D.H.Lawrence who put it into more than one of his novels. The town has the oldest Charter Fair in the country held every October. More interesting than most buildings in Ilkeston, which is not conspicuous for its beauty, is the unique House of Cinders just to the west. Built in 1835 as an experiment in new materials, it so interested some Americans that they even tried to buy it and take it back home! The town now boast 2 new breweries, Blue Monkey and Funfair with their ales on sale in local outlets. It was in Ilkeston Rep that star of stage and small screen, Robert Lindsay, acquired his craft. The town was used as the setting for the TV drama “Playing The Field”.

Heanor - D.H.Lawrence was born at Eastwood only 2 miles. Much expanded Heanor today looks every bit the important industrial town it has become. Heanor man, Henry Garnett became a leading figure in the notorious Gunpowder Plot and although he escaped capture for a while, he was eventually taken to The Tower and suffered a similar fate to that of Guy Fawkes.

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