Ukrainian youth centre weston on trent

Weston-on-Trent is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire. Ukrainian youth centre weston on trent population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,239. The ‘On-Trent’ suffix of both Weston and nearby villages means simply that they are near the river Trent. At the 2004 census there were about 800 people in the village aged sixteen to seventy-four years.

Weston’s only school is a Church of England Voluntary Aided primary school. The school has been in existence since 1821 and had on its old site to the west of the village since 1830. All of these are based at the Village Hall. The Domesday Book: “Weston-on-Trent is spelt as Westune or Westone in the Domesday Book. Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Weston. Sometime after 1086, King William I gave the manor of Weston to Hugh d’Avranches, who was later to become the first Earl of Chester. In 1215, King John signed another charter concerning the ownership of Weston.

He confirmed to the Abbots of Chester that the soke of Weston were free of all suits to counties or hundreds. In 1418 the monks in Chester who had charge of this parish were so short of funds that they leased the parish of Weston which still included other settlements in Derbyshire including Aston, Shardlow, Wilne, Morley and Smalley to the Bishop of Durham. The deal seems to have been driven entirely by short term finances and the Bishop of Durham was given a good price by offering to pay the fee in advance. This is unusual as the previous monarch had threatened to have him assassinated in France as he refused to return to face the charges against him. In 1633 James I granted the manor of Weston on Trent to Antony Roper and it is believed that this is when Weston Hall’s construction started. Weston Hall attacked Royalists who were based on the south side of the river.

The Roper family sold Weston Hall in 1649 and it was never completed. Bricked up doorways can be observed at first and second storeys where presumably the rest of the building was intended to be. The hall was bought by Robert Holden who passed it to his son Reverend Charles Edward Holden whose son was Edward Anthony Holden. In 1745 the young pretender advanced as far as nearby Swarkestone. Local records show that monies were found to not only repair ye town musquet but also money to charge it. In September 1770, the canal which had been started by James Brindley reached Weston where goods could be moved the short distance from the canal to the river and vice versa.

Much of this building still remains and Weston’s lock, two canal bridges and several mileposts are listed by English Heritage. Less than a century later, the village was again redesigned with several houses demolished, large earth works and roads were diverted to allow the railway to be opened in 1873 which “cut through the heart of the village isolating the south side from the north of the village”. The railway revolution initially happened outside Weston taking off in the area when three companies and their corresponding lines joined together to form the Midland Railway Company. The company was an amalgamation of different lines from Derby to Nottingham, to Birmingham and to Leeds. In 1851 the population of Weston was just under 400 in over seventy dwellings, but over the next twenty years the population fell by about a hundred, ten houses disappeared and another five were empty. Even allowing for the six houses that were in the way of the new railway this was a substantial change on the previous agricultural life. The railway revolution substantially reduced the traffic on the rivers and canals, but at Weston there was an extended life.

The mill at King’s Mill was a useful source of power and was relatively close to the gypsum quarries at Chellaston and Aston on Trent. Because of this a circuitous route was devised that must have involved considerable effort. The stone once quarried was loaded onto a purpose built tramway so that the stone could be pulled to the canal near Aston. Old Vicarage in the village and died there.

1937 saw a significant change in the lifestyle of the village with the arrival of piped water. There were two ferries at Weston, one at Weston Cliff and the other at King’s Mill which ceased trade in 1942. This ferry crossed the river at the end of King’s Mill Lane closest to Castle Donington. The last shop in Weston closed in 1998.