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Trowell is a village situated on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire
border, and residing within the Borough of Broxtowe in the County
of Nottinghamshire in England.
Trowell is an old Saxon settlement believed
to date
back to the tenth century. By 1066 Trowell
was a well developed parish with four
manors, a church with two priests, and a population of probably around
fifty souls.
At the beginning of the 13th century coal
was being worked on Trowell Moor, and conveyed to Nottingham by the
river Erewash. The moor also yielded excellent building stone - sandstone
from the coal measures - and in 1478 Trowell stone went to the strengthening
and enlargement of Nottingham Castle. Coal was mined in Trowell until
1928. Enclosures took place at Trowell under the act of 1787;
when the transformation of nearly 252 acres of moor and waste into
hedged fields began to give the parish
something like its modern form.
 The
turnpike road from Nottingham to Belper (through Trowell and Ilkeston)
was constructed in 1745.
The Nottingham Canal had  been
cut by the end of the 18th century, and in 1820 conveyed 320,000 tons
of merchandise.
The main railway line was laid in 1845, and
the Radford link in 1878. Trowell station had a useful life of more
than one hundred years. There are currently active moves being
made to reopen the station.
The M1 motorway, which bisects the village,
was constructed in 1966, and the Trowell Motorway Services lies within
the parish.
In 1951 Trowell became Britain's Festival
Village. It was chosen from among 1600 villages in the Festival of
Britain souvenir programme as a representative English rural community,
because of the 'ambition  and
courage' of its Festival Scheme, and the fact that it lies within
a few miles of the exact centre of England. Another reason was
its 'unusual name'. The 50th anniversary of Trowell becoming
the Festival Village was celebrated in 2001 within the village.
In the late 1980's the village increased in
size by approximately 350 homes, with the building of the Trowell
Park estate.
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