Beeston has a bus station located just off Station Road in the town centre.

The ruins of Beeston Castle stand on a separate steeply-sloping hill to the north.

Puzzling giant flint formations known as paramoudra and flint circles are found around Europe but especially in Norfolk, England on the beaches at Beeston Bump and West Runton.

The memorial to the men and women of Sheringham and Beeston Regis who died in military service during the two World Wars is located at on the traffic island at the intersection of The Boulevard, St Nicholas Place and The Esplanade.

A blue plaque on the wall of a cottage marks the location of the mill in Beeston road which was then called Paper Mill Road.

There are three main supermarkets in Morley: a Morrisons in the town centre, an Asda to the south side of Morley, and a Sainsbury's at the White Rose Centre which lies on the outskirts of Morley, towards Beeston and Holbeck.

The pharmaceutical and retail chemist group Boots has its headquarters on a large campus just 1 km east of the centre of Beeston, falling on the border of Broxtowe and the City of Nottingham.

The original boundary between the old Beeston and Chilwell parishes can still be identified by the change in road name from Chilwell Road ( on the Beeston side ) to High Road ( on the Chilwell side ) where the Hop Pole pub is.

The town was the administrative centre of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District Council and is the administrative centre for Broxtowe Borough Council, which have their head offices on Foster Avenue at Beeston Town Hall and the other council buildings situated there.

The Beekeeper on Beeston High Road

With the formation of Broxtowe District ( later Borough ) Council in 1974, the bees were carried on to its coat of arms, representing Beeston.

Motor manufacture returned to Beeston for a short period in 1987 when The Middlebridge Company set up a small factory on Lilac Grove and produced 77 Scimitar cars.

Boats at Beeston Marina, situated on the River Trent, near where Beeston Lock allows for travel on the Beeston Canal ( avoiding Beeston Weir )

The Midland Counties Railway from Nottingham to Derby through Beeston was opened on 30 May 1839.

Two golf courses exist adjacent to the town: Beeston Fields and Chilwell Manor.

Elland Road, home of Leeds United AFC has a 39, 640 capacity, all-seater stadium on Elland Road, adjacent to the M621 in the north of Beeston.

Plans are afoot to reposition the road to bypass Beeston / Sandy but no date for this work has been set.

The construction of strengthened flood protection has reduced the flooding threat to Beeston Rylands to a one every fifty year possibility.

Beeston is an unparished area and has no town council, however it was a civil parish until 1935.

Today Beeston has good rail transport links with Beeston station, on the Midland Main Line, served by East Midlands Trains and Arriva Cross Country.

Beeston has a number of historic buildings, including its manor house and parish church of St. John the Baptist.

Since then Beeston Rylands has had only a small amount of infill development.

Beeston is known for the variety of its traditional public houses and has one of the highest concentrations of pubs-per-person in the United Kingdom with 23 pubs ( as of 2011 ) within as per the Beeston Crawl.

Beeston has three post offices — the main one is on Chilwell Road ( on a site that was once also the town's delivery office ), another exists in the town centre on High Road ( towards Broadgate ), and a third on Central Avenue in the northern part of the town.

Another model, made by Humber and Co., Ltd., of Beeston, Nottingham, England, weighs only 24 lb, and has 52 and 18-inch wheels.

No cast list for these performances has survived ; but given the two companies ' known personnel, this might have been the first time Christopher Beeston acted with his old colleagues since leaving the Lord Chamberlain's Men nearly a decade earlier.

Robert Beeston was successful in championing this effort in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2003 ; progress has also been made in England.

Beeston has a population of about 20, 000 people.

Cad Beeston manor house has been dated by dendochronology to about 1420, and is a grade II * listed building currently used as private offices with no public access.

In his 2005 poem ' Shrapnel ' poet Tony Harrison, who was in Beeston on the night of the raid, speculates whether this was an act of heroism by the Luftwaffe pilot, a theory that has been explored ever since the raid.

Beeston Hill has a relatively high level of empty housing as well as a number of significant unoccupied commercial premises, such as the former Malvern public house.

Beeston Hill has a significant ethnic minority population, with around 40 % of the population from BME Communities.

The west of Beeston around Elland Road has significant amounts of industrial estates, with a substantial amount of mainly semi-detached and terraced housing to the western edge of the Parkside and Cross Flatts area.

Beeston has a mainline railway line running along its Western edge along which all services between Leeds City railway station and London Kings Cross and London St Pancras run.

Beeston has one secondary school, Cockburn School which is a specialist arts college.

Beeston has a range of facilities.

This would have also been consistent with the notion of Beeston as a " hive of industry ".

Numerous other cycle routes through Beeston have also been signposted by the council.

A design that might have been copied from English designs on the Marches such as Beeston Castle, Cheshire or Montgomery Castle, Shropshire.

The equipment at this exchange was supplied by Ericsson's of Beeston ( later Plessey ) and was an export cancellation, having originally been destined for Ethiopia.

Pits dating from the 4th millennium BC indicate the site of Beeston Castle may have been inhabited or used as a communal gathering place during the Neolithic period.

While the park formerly suffered from neglect and had a high crime rate, through the work of the Council and community groups such as Friends of Cross Flatts Park and Beeston in Bloom the park has been cleaned up and made safer and more welcoming.

Until 1974 Toton was part of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District, having been in Stapleford Rural District until 1935.

Until 1974 it was part of Beeston and Stapleford Urban District, having been in Stapleford Rural District until 1935.

The town of Hucknall was transferred to the new Sherwood constituency, while the town of Eastwood and the ward of Brinsley were added, having previously been in the Beeston constituency, which was abolished at that time.

* indigo-Nottingham-Beeston, Long Eaton, then Derby or Sawley / East Midlands Airport / Loughborough The East Midlands Airport section of the route has now been replaced by the every 30 minutes 24 / 7 skylink service, skylink offers fast journeys between Long Eaton & Nottingham ( avoiding Beeston bus station ) as well as carrying on from the Airport to Loughborough hourly through the day Monday-Saturday.

From 1935 until 1974 Stapleford was paired with the town of Beeston in the Beeston and Stapleford Urban District, having previously been part of the Stapleford Rural District.