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Weston-on-Trent history
A thousand years
In 1009 King Ethelred the Unready signed a charter at the Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Weston. Weston controlled the crossings of the Trent at, Weston Cliff, King’s Mills and Wilne. The land was listed as eight hides at Weston upon Trent, and a hide at Morley, Smalley, Ingleby, Crich and Kidsley. This land was then given to Morcar, the King’s chief minister, who was unusually given rights that were normally reserved for the King alone.
Treason
In 1603, Weston-on-Trent was awarded by James I to Charles Paget who also gave him a pension of £200 a year. 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. At the start of the English civil wars (in 1642) soldiers who were based at Weston Hall attacked Royalists.
The railway
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. 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.
The last 100 years
There were two ferries at Weston, one at Weston Cliff and the other at King’s Mill which ceased trade in 1942. The novelist H. D. Everett (1851-1923) lived in the Old Vicarage in the village and died there. In 2009 The Old Plough was closed and subsequently demolished.
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