Attenborough, Nottinghamshire
…and Chilwell to the north. The population of the ward, as at the 2011 Census, was 2,328. The village is home to Attenborough railway station and the Attenborough Nature Reserve. Attenborough was known in Saxon times as Addensburgh. It was the home village of Henry Ireton (1611 – 26 November 1651), an English general in the…