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Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Village and civil parish in England

Woodborough is a conservation village and civil parish in the Borough of Gedling, Nottinghamshire, England.^[1] It lies approximately 7 miles (11 km) north-east of Nottingham and had a population of 1,908 at the 2021 census (civil parish).^[2] The village contains a Grade II* listed parish church and manor house, along with numerous Grade II listed buildings, including framework knitters’ workshops and a racehorse stable. Woodborough is also home to the Iron Age Fox Wood earthworks, a scheduled monument. The village is further noted as the alleged birthplace of William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame knitting machine.

Toponymy

The place-name Woodborough is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears in the form Udeburg, which likely derives from the Old English words widu (wood; or wood, timber) and burh (fortified place).^[3] The local Norman lords of the manor adopted a hereditary nom de terre following the transfer of land ownership post-Conquest, using the form Wudeburc in the Pipe Rolls of 1194 and Wodeburgh in the Feet of Fines for Essex in 1324. The latter spelling also appears in the Episcopal Registers of 1396, along with the variation Wodeburg, which predominates throughout the medieval period. Later variations include Woodburgh and Woodborow. The current spelling only became a fixed convention sometime in the 18th century.

History

Sixteen men from the village lost their lives in the First World War. Eight men from the village were killed during the Second World War.

At 8.45am on 26 May 1966 there was a mid-air collision over the village between the BAC Jet Provost aircraft XP631^[4] and XM384.^[5] Both aircraft flew from RAF Syerston.^[6][7][8]

Three ejected, two instructors and one trainee. One was Flight Lieutenant Don Henderson, who was the leader of the Viper Red aerobatics team, at Syerston. The other instructor was Flying Officer Tim Thorn of Ipswich. Air Commodore Tim Thorn would later be a SEPECAT Jaguar pilot, later Station Commander from 1987 of RAF Cranwell, and from 1993 to 1995 he was the Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment; he had acquired a series of narrow escapes.

One aircraft landed at Roe Hill. The other aircraft landed in apple trees on Calverton Lane. A tail plane landed at a former Borstal (HM Prison Lowdham Grange since 1998). A wing and fuel tank landed in the Main Street.

One person parachuted near Calverton Lane, on the property of Len Russell. One person parachuted in the village main street, on telephone wires near the Four Bells pub. One person landed towards Lowdham, picked up by ambulance. The pilots were taken to a hospital in Nottingham, then to RAF Nocton Hall in Lincolnshire.^[9][10]

The last mid-air collision in the area was on the evening of Monday 26 September 1949, when two RAF Lincoln bomber aircraft RE374^[11] and RF407^[12] collided at Averham, when all 14 were killed; both aircraft were from RAF Waddington.^[13]

Notable people

Bus services

Nottingham City Transport

• 61: Nottingham, Woodborough Road, Mapperley, Mapperley Plains, Lambley, Woodborough, Calverton.

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