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Radford is an inner-city area of Nottingham, located just outside the city centre. The appropriate ward of the City of Nottingham Council is called Radford and Park with a population of 21,414.[2] It is bounded on the south by Lenton and Nottingham City Centre, and comprises around 600 acres (2.4 km²) of land.

Radford
Bentinck Primary School
Radford Location within Nottinghamshire
Population	21,414 (Ward 2011)[1]
OS grid reference	SK 55277 40643
District	Nottingham
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NOTTINGHAM
Postcode district	NG7
Dialling code	0115
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Nottingham South
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 52.960°N 1.177°W / 52.960; -1.177

History

St Peter's Church, Radford was given by William Peveril to Lenton Priory. The church was rebuilt in 1812 at a cost of £2,000. The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1805 and enlarged in 1828.[3] In September 1878 a chapel was built on St Peter's Street by the United Methodist Free Churches at a cost of £1,900. It was closed owing to declining membership and income in June 1947 and purchased by the Evangelical Free Church.[4]

Radford Registration District (RD) was created on 1 July 1837 on the introduction of Statutory Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths (BMD) - and was abolished, and absorbed into Nottingham RD, on 1 July 1880.

Population by year

• 1811 - 5,704
• 1821 - 7,348
• 1831 - 16,568
• 1841 - 22,473
• 1851 - 12,635
• 1901 - 34,354 ^{[citation needed]}

Background

The area has a large ethnic minority population (mainly European, West Indian, African, Arab, Asian, South American, Polish and increasingly Kurdish), and accordingly there is a large number of specialist food and retail shops catering to specific cultures, owing to the relatively cheap nature of housing in the area (and the large number of old Victorian properties converted into flats and bedsits).

Radford has a large student population, most of whom attend the nearby Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham.

Industry

Radford was the home of

• Raleigh Industries once the world's largest bicycle producer
• Player's cigarettes, with a range of buildings housing factories, offices and warehouses
• Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd. inventors of incinerators for waste disposal.

Culture

It provides the backdrop for much of Alan Sillitoe's book Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Numerous scenes from the film of the book which starred Albert Finney were shot in Radford.

Bus services

Nottingham City Transport

■ 28: Nottingham → Radford (Ilkeston Road) → Jubilee Campus → Beechdale → Bilborough[5]

■ 30: Nottingham → Radford (Ilkeston Road) → Jubilee Campus → Wollaton Park → Bramcote → Wollaton Vale[6]

■ 31: Nottingham → Radford (Ilkeston Road) → Jubilee Campus (Grounds)[7]

■ 77: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Aspley Lane → Strelley[8]

■ 77C: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Aspley Lane → Strelley → Cinderhill[9]

■ 78: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Nuthall Road → Broxtowe → Strelley[10]

■ 79: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Nuthall Road → Cinderhill → Bulwell → Rise Park → Warren Hill → Bestwood Park → Arnold[11]

■ 79A: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Nuthall Road → Cinderhill → Bulwell → Rise Park → Top Valley → Bestwood Park → Arnold[12]

■ 79B: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Nuthall Road → Cinderhill → Bulwell / Rise Park[13]

■ N28: Nottingham → Radford (Ilkeston Road) → Jubilee Campus → Beechdale → Bilborough → Wollaton Vale[14]

■ N77: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Aspley Lane → Strelley → Cinderhill → Whitemoor[15]

Trentbarton

■ rainbow one: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Nuthall → Kimberley → Eastwood → Heanor / Ripley / Alfreton[16]

■ two: Nottingham → Radford (Ilkeston Road) → Wollaton → Trowell → Ilkeston → Cotmanhay[17]

Nottingham Community Transport

■ L4: Nottingham → Radford → Ainsley Estate → Beechdale → Aspley[18]

■ L7: Nottingham → Radford → Charlbury Road[19]

■ L12: QMC → Jubilee Campus → Radford → Hyson Green[20]

■ L14: Nottingham → Radford → Hyson Green → Bulwell[21]

References

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