X-Nico

unusual facts about Erewash



Erewash Sound

The Erewash Sound studios are based at Ormiston Enterprise Academy in Cotmanhay, Ilkeston.

In late 1994, the station brand Erewash Sound was launched and a 28-day RSL broadcast, supported by the area's local councillors and MP, took place in the summer of 2005.

Erewash Valley Line

Finally in 1844 it built the Erewash Valley line as far as Pinxton in 1847, with a link to the Butterley Company's own railway at Codnor Park in 1849.

Ilkeston Town Hall

Since 1974 it has been one of two headquarters of Erewash Borough Council, the other being in Long Eaton.

Mansfield and Pinxton Railway

The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway in the United Kingdom, completed in 1819 to transport coal to Mansfield from the head of the Pinxton branch of the Cromford Canal from collieries along the Erewash valley served by the Erewash Canal.


see also