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Bulwell history
Early settlers
The earliest documented settlements in Bulwell appeared around 800 AD, and were most likely built around the same time as the first local bridge across the River Leen. The bridge created a rare direct road to Nottingham from the north-west, introducing regular traffic to the area for the first time. The travellers were an almost captive market, and the abundance of sandstone made it easy to build dwellings.
1100–1600
Bulwell sandstone is a dull yellow-orange magnesium limestone similar to Bunter sandstone under Nottingham Castle. The strong, easily worked and durable rock offered a building material easy to quarry. Coalmines in the area around Bulwell were among the first in the county to operate on a commercial basis.
1600–1900
In 1667, George Strelley “built a school for the educating and teaching [of] young children of the said Parish”, a building that survives to this day, along with many other houses built at the time. An 1852 act of Parliament allowed a gas pipeline from Basford and the south to be extended. The earliest supply of mains water did not arrive until 1877, replacing many local springs, wells and the river.
1900 to the present
Snape Wood and Sellers Wood were parts of a swathe of woodland that bordered the landfill site to the north-west of Bulwell, stretching down to the farmland that became Hempshill Vale estate to the south-west. Both woods were protected under Royal Warrants dating back to the 12th century, but the drastic housing shortage in Bulwell in the 1960s and 1970s led to the protection being set aside. A token remnant of Snape Wood in the middle of the new estate amounts to little more than a fenced copse with three pathways leading through it.
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