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This market town on the banks
of the River Idle has a rich past and is said to
be one of England’s oldest chartered boroughs. It
sent representatives to Parliament as early as
1315. With foundries and paper mills among its
industries, it can claim to be one of
Nottinghamshire’s most important town in the north
of the county. A key destination on the East Coast
rail line, it was once a staging post on the Great
North Road. In the 18th century James Brindley
designed the Chesterfield-Repton Canal to bring
wide barges and their cargoes to the River Trent.
