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Lying
3 miles south-west of Nottingham, Beeston grew from a village
to town in the 19th century when it became a silk-weaving
centre.
The decline
of the silk industry led to the establishment of light industries
in the former mills. Telephone manufacturing and pharmaceutical
industries have become particularly important.
Beeston
was the home of Jesse Boot, who started work in his mother's
herb shop and went on to found the high street phenomenon,
"Boots the Chemist". Today Boots has its headquarters on
a campus to the south-east of Beeston.
The
growth of the suburbs around Nottingham in the 20th century
now means that Beeston is continuous with the former villages
of Chilwell to the west and Wollaton to the north-east. The
weir on the River Trent at Beeston is particularly pretty.
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Beeston
Attenborough
Gravel Pits Nature Reserve & Nature Centre Barton
Lane, Attenborough, Nottingham NG9 6DY
