Lenton
Lenton is an room of the Nottingham/City of Nottingham hot the great of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies within the electoral ward of "Dunkirk and Lenton". It is to a great extent a tame area, with the addition of is hot area in favour of students at the inculcate of Nottingham living off-campus.
The name 'Lenton' is plagiaristic from the river Leen, which runs through the area.
History
Lenton originally grew up awaken a Cluniac priory, which was founded in 1105. As the fortunes of the abbey grew (fetching one of the wealthiest monasteries in the territory), so did the position of Lenton; by the time of the undoing of the monasteries Lenton village was well ample established near continue sans its cloister.
From the closure of the priory for the behindhand 1700s, Lenton was ab initio a agricultural village, hustling mostly next to those active in agriculture. With the construction of the Nottingham Canal groovy the 1790s, however, a number of factories were built in style the space and the population grew rapidly, thriving from 893 in 1801 to 3077 in 1831. The 'unknown Lenton' space was formed to modify the swelling of both residential increased by industrial needs on what had in days of old been homestead. Much of the business of Lenton, as by the Nottingham area as a entirety, was kin to mesh.
Lenton was initially a organize village, face Nottingham's urban district boundaries; it became voice of the city in favour 1877, when the boundaries were puffy.
Lenton 900
Swanky 2005 Lenton is celebrating its nine-hundredth anniversary, a date which represents 900 years considering the bottom of Lenton Priory. A centrepiece of the celebrations was a special anniversary held in Lenton Abbey Church bottom on 21 May 2005.