Information about Chellaston and St. Peter

Fun Fact

Geolocation

Chellaston's Beginnings

Chellaston was a separate village and was worth three shillings when the king gave it to Henry de Ferrers in the eleventh century^[1].

Chellaston's biggest claim to fame is that it was once one of the largest producers of mined alabaster in the United Kingdom which was used to produce Nottingham Alabaster. However, this is no longer the case. The remains of Chellaston's pits can be found at the bottom of Pit Close Lane and Woodgate Drive, and the site is now popular with BMX bikers and teenagers.

Facilities

Chellaston has a Co-op supermarket on the corner of High Street and Derby Road. The Post Office is located on Derby Road near Station Road, next to Chellaston Garage (a small car repair business), a Chinese Restaurant (which used to be a petrol filling station) and the Tesco Express.

There are four schools; Chellaston Infants School on School Lane, Chellaston Junior School on Maple Drive, Homefields Primary School on Parkway and Chellaston School (senior school and 6th form college) on Swarkestone Road. Chellaston School's catchment area includes the nearby villages of Melbourne, Aston-on-Trent, Ticknall, Barrow upon Trent and Weston-on-Trent. ChellastonFoundationSchool and TechnologyCollege currently has over 1700 pupils and is currently facing problems with families who move to Chellaston wanting their children to go there. The school is not able to accept many of the applications. This problem has recently increased due to the Local Education Authority's recent changes to the system.

Chellaston has six pubs, if you include the bars at the Lawns Hotel, Chellaston Bowls Club and the British Legion on High Street. The others are: the Corner Pin, the Rose and Crown, and The Bonnie Prince.

The fairly-new ChellastonPark on Snelsmoor Lane includes a children's playground, football pitches, a cricket pitch and changing facilities. There is also a children's playground next to the recently extended Chellaston Community Centre, which is situated on Barley Croft, off High Street. A local public library is expected to be built somewhere in the vicinity of the community centre.

Places of Worship

There are three churches in Chellaston. The sky-dominating St. Peter's Church (Church of England) on St. Peter's Road, the Methodist Church on High Street and St. Ralph Sherwin Church Catholic on Swarkestone Road next to ChellastonSchool. The three churches have a signed an ecumenical covanent together, and hold a joint service every month.

Flowers

The Chellaston Beauty tulip

Chellaston Beauty is a tulip with a white base and variegated tips in near black. The flower was developed in the early 1850s.^[2] Illustrated by Andrew Jet & Lance, and printed by C. Chabot. ^[3]

Infrastructure

The main road through Chellaston is Derby Road A514, which becomes Swarkestone Road at the crossroads with High Street.

Approximately 1000 new homes have been built to the west of Chellaston, close to the route of the disused and in-filled Derby Canal.

Notable residents

The following notable people came from Chellaston:

• Paul Aldred (former Derbyshire Cricketer)^[4]
• Lee Camp (current Queens Park Rangers and England U-21 goalkeeper)

 References

1. , Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.748-9
2. , The Florist and Garden Miscellany, 1851

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