Langar & Strelley in Nottinghamshire.
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. Broxtowe's neigbour to the west is the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire. Settlements of Broxtowe include Beeston where the council is based, Awsworth, Bramcote, Brinsley, Chilwell, Cossall, Eastwood, Giltbrook, Kimberley, Moorgreen, Newthorpe, Nuthall, Stapleford, Swingate, Toton, and Watnall.
The area name derives from the old Broxtowe wapentake of Nottinghamshire. Broxtowe Estate is not within the borough, but is instead within the boundaries of the City of Nottingham in the East Midlands whose heart of the city is the Old Market Square. The first evidence of settlement dates from pre-Roman times, and it is clear that the Romans also lived in the area. An early name for Nottingham was "Tigguo Cobauc" which means "a place of cavy dwellings." Founded by Anglo-Saxon invaders after 600 AD, parts of the settlement have included man-made caves, dug into soft sandstone. The Saxons were led by a chieftain named Snot. Snot brought together his people in an area where the historic Lace Market in the City can now be found. In the 11th century a castle was constructed on a sandstone outcrop by the River Trent. The Anglo-Saxon settlement on the hill now occupied by the Lace Market around St. Mary's Church developed into the English Borough of Nottingham and housed its Town Hall and Courts. A settlement also developed around the castle on the hill opposite and was the French borough supporting the Normans in the Castle.
Strelley is also notable for being the upper terminus of one of the earliest recorded railway lines in the world, the Wollaton Waggonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England- completed by Huntingdon Beaumont working in partnership with the second occupier of Wollaton Hall, Sir Percival Willoughby. 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 which yeare began the Hampton Court conference with James I of England, the Anglican bishops and representatives of Puritans and England concludes the Treaty of London with Spain, ending its involvement in the Eighty Years' War. The village of Strelley was first recorded in the Doomsday Book in 1086. The village 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.
The area is loosley bordered with the West Nottingham suburbs of Lenton, Bramcote, Trowell, Bilborough and Radford. Lenton originally grew up around a Cluniac priory, which was founded in 1105. The Abbey of Cluny (or Cluni, or Clugny) was founded on 2 September 909 by the Abbot Berno and Count of Auvergne, William I, who placed it under the immediate authority of Pope Sergius III. The town of Cluny, in the modern-day department of Saône-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne, in east-central France, near Mâcon, grew round the former abbey, founded in a forested hunting reserve. The building campaign was financed by the annual census established by Ferdinand I of Leon, ruler of a united León-Castile, some time between 1053 and 1065. Saints Odo of Cluny, the second abbot (died 942) and Hugh of Cluny (died 1109). Odilo, the fifth abbot (died 1049), was a third great leader, who continued the work of reforming other monasteries, but he also encouraged tighter control of the far-flung priories by the Abbot of Cluny. The Benedictine order was a keystone to the stability that European society achieved in the 11th century, and partly owing to the stricter adherence to a reformed Benedictine rule, Cluny became the acknowledged leader of western monasticism from the later 10th century. A sequence of highly competent abbots of Cluny were statesmen on an international stage.
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