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Ilkeston Market Place - Photo:
Garth Newton
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Ilkeston received its royal
charter for a market and fair in 1252 but its
history goes back to the days when it was an Anglo
Saxon settlement. Once a mining and lace making
centre, its history is told in the Erewash Museum,
a hilltop church that can be seen for miles.
Nearby stand the ruined Dale Abbey and a sandstone
cave once inhabited by a baker-cum-hermit. The Cat
and Fiddle Windmill nearby was built in the 1700s.
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