Greasley
Greasley is a civil parish north west of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England.

Greasley is a civil parish north west of Nottingham in Nottinghamshire, England. Although it is thought there was once a village called Greasley, there is no settlement of that name today as it was destroyed by the Earl of Rutland. The built up areas in the parish are Beauvale, Giltbrook, Moorgreen, Newthorpe, Watnall and parts of Eastwood, Kimberley and Nuthall. There is also a small hamlet known as Bog-End. The parish is one of the largest in Nottinghamshire at 7.63 square miles (19.8 km2), the 2001 UK Census reporting it had a total population of 10,467, increasing to 11,014 in 2011, and 11,241 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Greasley
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bennerley Viaduct
Bennerley Viaduct is a former railway bridge, now a foot and cycle bridge, between Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and Awsworth, Nottinghamshire, in central England. It was completed in 1877 and carried the Great Northern Railway's Derbyshire Extension over the River Erewash, which forms the county boundary, and its wide, flat valley.
3.8 km · railway viaduct spanning the Erewash Valley · Wikipedia - 02Beauvale Priory
Beauvale Priory was a Carthusian monastery in Beauvale, Nottinghamshire.
1.8 km · carthusian monastery in Beauvale, Nottinghamshire · Wikipedia - 03Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Underwood
The Church of St Michael and All Angels, Underwood is a parish church in the Church of England in Underwood, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Selston, Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04D.H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum
The D. H. Lawrence Birthplace Museum preserves the writer's home of D. H. Lawrence in Eastwood, near Nottingham. It is one of the four houses the family occupied in Eastwood.
2.5 km · museum in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St. Mary's Church, Greasley
St Mary's Church, Greasley is a parish church in the Church of England in Greasley, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as it is a building of special architectural or historic interest.
100 m · grade II listed church in Greasley, Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Patrick's Church, Nuthall
St Patrick's Church, Nuthall is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Nuthall.
3.6 km · church in Nuthall, Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Nuthall Temple
Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire, one of England's lost houses, was one of five houses built in the United Kingdom generally said to have been inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra in Vicenza. Only two 18th-century examples remain: Mereworth Castle and Chiswick House.
3.7 km · building in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Greasley
- Airports
- East Midlands (EMA), 21 km · Birmingham (BHX), 71 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km
- Stations
- Awsworth railway station, 3.2 km
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Greasley73 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Greasley82 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £10–13
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Greasley88 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–13
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No local-transport research exists yet for Greasley
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Greasley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Greasley
Greasley is 11 km from Nottingham, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ashfielddistrict in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Eastwoodtown in Nottinghamshire, England2.4 km
- Kimberleytown in Nottinghamshire, England2.8 km
- Brinsleyvillage in Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.4 km
- Awsworthvillage and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, UK3.2 km
- Nuthallvillage in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, England, UK3.7 km