![]() ![]() The town is still surrounded by farmed land, woods and fields, and just half a mile to the west, the River Erewash forms the boundary between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Church Street has several listed buildings, and leads on into New Eastwood. At the western end of Eastwood a gyratory system has been constructed upon an ancient crossroads, now a traffic island, around the Sun Inn public house. ![]() This road contains many shops and uphill to the east it leads to the A610 to Nottingham, the M1 motorway, and Giltbrook Retail Park. The town is centred on Nottingham Road, which runs along a north west-south east ridge. Alluvial deposits from the River Erewash run roughly north-south. The area contains coal measures, with shale, mudstone, and sandstone, overlain by yellow clay. D H Lawrence, 1929 Nottingham & the Mining Country To me it seemed, and still seems an extremely beautiful countryside, just between the red sandstone and oak trees of Nottingham and the cold limestone, the ash trees, the stone fences of Derbyshire It is hilly country, looking west to Crich and towards Matlock, sixteen miles away and east and northeast towards Mansfield and the Sherwood Forest district. I was born nearly forty-four year ago, in Eastwood, a mining village of some three thousand souls about eight miles from Nottingham, and one mile from the small stream, the Erewash, which divides Nottinghamshire from Derbyshire. ![]()
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