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Plans are afoot to reposition the road to bypass Beeston / Sandy but no date for this work has been set.
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 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 bus station located just off Station Road in the town centre.
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 Fire Station on an adjacent plot has been closed and relocated to a new site on Hassocks Lane.
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 a range of facilities.

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Sheringham nestles under the nearby hill of Beeston Bump a geological SSSI which was the site of one of the World War II secret Y-stations.
Each division returns one county councillor and the most recent county council elections were held in 2009 — the Liberal Democrats won Beeston North and the Conservatives won Beeston South & Attenborough.
The Chilwell and Beeston route will go to the south west of the city, serving the northern edge of the Meadows residential area, the ng2 development site, Queen's Medical Centre, the University of Nottingham, Beeston town centre and Chilwell, to a new park and ride site at the junction of the A52 road and Toton Lane, about one mile from junction 25 of the M1 motorway.
Beeston crag is one of a chain of rocky hills stretching across the Cheshire Plain.
Beeston was one of the chapelries of the ancient parish of Leeds, and in 1822 had a population of 1, 670.
The article later stated, " Beeston, a poor racially mixed community, is lined with small row houses built in another era to house the factory workers who were one of the cornerstones of the British industry.

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Paul Smith left school at the age of 14, a member of Beeston Road Club his only ambition was to become a racing cyclist until his father hauled him off to work at a clothing warehouse.
The park is the venue for the Beeston Festival which takes place annually in June, and in summer and school holidays is host to numerous activities for young people.

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The playwright Willis Hall attended Cockburn High School in Beeston as did the academic and author of The Uses of Literacy, Richard Hoggart.

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' Hugh Gaitskell Primary School ' is situated in Beeston, part of his former Leeds South constituency.
* Sir Paul Smith, the fashion designer who attended Beeston Fields Secondary Modern School for Boys whilst growing up.
* Sir Neil Cossons ( Chairman of English Heritage ) grew up in Beeston, attending Church Street School, where his father was the headmaster.
Roundhill Primary School, Beeston, Nottinghamshire was used as the location for ' Walker Street Middle School '.
Beeston is home to the Leeds College of Technology School of Mechanics situated towards the south side, and the Beeston Centre of the Leeds City College ( formerly Joseph Priestley College ).
Matthew Murray High School situated between Beeston and Holbeck recently closed down and was merged with Merlyn Rees High School in Belle Isle, to form South Leeds High School in Belle Isle.

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It had an overshot waterwheel, which seems quite remarkable when considering the surrounding terrain and the fact that the mill was only supplied by the small Beeston Beck.
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 medieval period saw the construction of the Great North Road, the post road connecting London to Edinburgh, which ran through Beeston.
Subsequent upgrades during the 1960s saw this section of the road become a dual carriageway which effectively split the hamlet and isolated the larger part of Beeston from Sandy, pedestrian access being limited to a footbridge.
The present four wards which constitute Beeston today cover the same post-1933 area of the old parish, with the two recent alterations made to the western boundary, as described in the " Wards " section above.
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 A6005 road runs through the town, to the southeast of the town centre, as do the B6006 and B6464 routes which pass through the heart of Beeston.
Cottage Grove, which historically was just outside Beeston parish and part of Chilwell, was originally promoted by the Labourer's Friend Society in the 1840s as plots for cottages with allotments for the labouring poor.
Over the first few decades of the 20th century, several estates were built to house the workers at Ericssons and Boots, both of which had large factory sites also south of the railway line, and these estates joined Beeston and Rylands.
Many cafés are to be found around the main shopping centre, " The Square "— the centre of Beestonis a 1960s shopping development, most of which is pedestrianised.
Until 2006, Beeston was home to Nottingham Rugby Club, which sold the land next to the railway line ( now the Birkin Fields housing development ) and moved to share the Meadow Lane pitch at the Notts County ground.
The limestone cliffs that fringe the valley contain several rock-climbing areas, and named rock features, including Thor's Cave () and Beeston Tor () which overlooks the confluence with the River Hamps.
Parts of the East Midlands are also densely populated, particularly the triangle formed by the cities of Nottingham, Leicester and Derby, which also includes sizeable towns such as Loughborough and the Long Eaton – Beeston – Stapleford subconurbation.
The new millennium also brought changes to the network in 2003, moving its world headquarters from Fort Lee to 900 Sylvan Avenue ( Route 9W ) in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, which features completely digital video production and studios made by PDG Ltd of Beeston, Nottinghamshire and the FX Group of Ocoee, Florida.
The site, at the foot of Beeston Hill beside the A643 road to Elland, was owned by Bentley's Brewery and was called the Old Peacock Ground, after the pub which faced the land, hence the nickname the Peacocks associated with both Leeds City and United.
The others are Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire, and Chartley, Staffordshire, both of which share similar architectural features with Beeston ; in particular the design of the towers.
Beeston-Parkside and Cross Flatts area and Beeston Hill are separated by Cross Flatts Park which runs between Dewsbury Road and Town Street: Beeston Hill to the east, and Parkside and Cross Flatts to the west.
Beeston Hill is largely made up of areas of older Victoria terraces and newer social housing, which comprises around a third of the housing stock in the area.
Beeston is severed from Leeds by the M621 and therefore benefits from very good links with the M621 motoray, as well as the M62 which runs close to Beeston to the south of Morley.

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