The church of St. Aspley Woodhouse, now Aspley Hall, by its name and its grand old trees, reminds us of forest days, for Aspley is the remains of an ancient wood extending into Wollaton and Bilborough, and this site has been a residence since the days of Queen Elizabeth, by whom the herbage and pannage pasturage for cattle and swine in Aspley Wood was sold, since which the property has passed from the Blyth family to the Atkinsons, and Willoughbys, and in it was sold to Lord Middleton, and has been a kind of dower house to Wollaton Hall.
See the tradition as to Agnes Willoughby, page 50, and "Notts. Facts and Fictions," page 6. The Willoughbys, of Aspley, refused to change their form of faith at the bidding of the monarch, or parliament, and continued as Roman Catholics long after other families had conformed. Pains and penalties could not make the old Squire budge. Each man had a quart of ale, and each woman a pint. Eight or ten families would be in the kitchen at one time. An old gentleman in black was always present, and blessed the proceedings.
He was a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev.
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Thomas Pickering, who continued as priest at Aspley for fifty years, liable to penalties, but kindly and quiet. He died March 24th, , aged eighty-six year? Bobbers Mill is referred to in the reign of Henry II. The imputation of greed is uncalled for. People must live by labour, but it is highly desirable the pollution of the river should be lessened. An act was passed in for making an intercepting sewer, and it was then thought that the original purity of the stream would be speedily restored.
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This has not been accomplished. The flour mill continues, but on a much larger scale, and Bobbers Mill has become quite a place for manufactures. There are factories for lace, leather, hosiery, colour printing, timber, mineral waters, bleaching, dyeing and dressing, etc. In it was described by Throsby as being "a little paradise.
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Elliott in made grounds in miniature, with foliage blended in groups, and temple forms, an ornamental lake, etc. Mary Howitt, in her book "Little Coin, Much Care," also refers to the place, and the evening's grand entertainment, to be concluded by fireworks. Sutton bought it, and stocked the lake with perch and the banks with rare birds, and Henry S. Sutton wrote in one of his poems, "A Dream," under the heading—.
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And so the paradise had been regained. Until all the part of the parish from Old Badford church to the top of Derby Road was fields and gardens. In Benjamin Darker, needle-maker, built four houses, back to back, being Nos. He then built nine others adjoining, and reaching to Denman street. The land cost 2s. The district was in the policy called "New Weston," not New Radford. Your list has reached the maximum number of items. Please create a new list with a new name; move some items to a new or existing list; or delete some items.
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