Living in Eastwood
Eastwood is a town about nine miles north west of Nottingham, with 10,927 residents at the 2021 census. D. H. Lawrence was born here in 1885, and many of his novels describe the town. A painted pavement route, the Blue Line Trail, links places connected with him.
The Erewash Canal brought coal mining to the area from 1779, and the last local pit closed in 1985. Kimberley and Nuthall lie along the A610 towards Nottingham and the M1.