Long Eaton

Long Eaton is a town in the Erewash locale of Derbyshire, England. It lies only north of the River Trent around 7 miles 11 km southwest of Nottingham and around 8.5 miles 13.7 km southeast of Derby. The number of inhabitants in the town was 37,760 at the 2011 census. Since 1 April 1974, Long Eaton has been a piece of Erewash ward after the disintegration of the Long Eaton Urban District Council.

Long Eaton is alluded to as Aitone, in the Domesday Book. A few implications are related with this name, for instance "cultivate between streams" or "low lying area". The town remained a consistent size until the happening to the railroads in the nineteenth century. The Midland Counties Railway in 1839 and the Erewash Valley Line in 1844 gave transport joins which empowered development. Two enterprises came to utilize numerous individuals in the developing town, bind making and railroad wagon fabricating.

A huge railroad yard at Toton Sidings became only north of the town. Long Eaton Speedway hustled at the Long Eaton Stadium on Station Road, the primary gathering was hung on 18 May 1929. The Long Eaton Invaders wound up National Speedway Champions in 1984. Be that as it may, the speedway stadium shut in 1997. The previous region of the speedway stadium has now been reproduced into a radical new home of houses and pads to let and purchase, and a fractional playing field for Grange Primary School.