Definition & Meaning | English word ALFRETON

Definitions of ALFRETON

1. A town in Amber Valley, Derbyshire, England.

Examples of Using ALFRETON in a Sentence

• It is located to the north-northeast of Derby, northwest of Heanor, southwest of Alfreton and northeast of Belper.
• The A61 is a major trunk road in England connecting Derby and Thirsk in North Yorkshire by way of Alfreton, Clay Cross, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon.
• Another Roman road known as Lilley Street ran from there to the southern end of Alfreton, suggesting that settlement in the area predated the time of King Alfred by several centuries.
• Peak FM's coverage area included the towns of Alfreton, Bakewell, Bolsover, Clay Cross, Dronfield, Matlock, Pinxton, Ripley, Shirebrook, South Normanton and Staveley.
• After beating Chippenham Town 2–1 in round one, the Terras slumped to a 6–0 home defeat against Conference National side Alfreton Town.
• Born at Alfreton in Derbyshire, he began his career assisting his father Joseph Outram, who described himself as an "agriculturalist", but was also a land agent, an enclosure commissioner arbitrating in the many disputes which arose from the inclosure acts, an advisor on land management, a surveyor for new mines and served as a turnpike trustee.
• He had shaken off a minor hamstring injury which saw him have to be substituted during two run-outs in pre-season friendlies with Alfreton (against Sheffield United and Matlock Town).
• 79: Nottingham → Radford (Alfreton Road) → Nuthall Road → Cinderhill → Bulwell → Rise Park → Warren Hill → Bestwood Park → Arnold.
• 1983–1997: The District of Amber Valley wards of Aldercar, Alfreton East, Alfreton West, Codnor, Denby and Horsley Woodhouse, Heage and Ambergate, Heanor and Loscoe, Heanor East, Heanor West, Holbrook and Horsley, Kilburn, Riddings, Ripley, Ripley and Marehay, Shipley Park, Somercotes, Swanwick, and Wingfield, and the Borough of Erewash wards of Breadsall and Morley, Little Eaton, and Stanley.
• From 14 December 2008 Northern started running a new hourly Express Service from Leeds to Nottingham calling at Wakefield Kirkgate, Barnsley, Meadowhall Interchange, Sheffield, Dronfield, Chesterfield, Alfreton and Langley Mill.
• When created in 1918, the constituency consisted of the Urban Districts of Alfreton, Belper and Heage, together with the Rural District of Belper and part of the Rural District of Repton (the civil parishes of Ash, Bearwardcote, Bretby, Burnaston, Dalbury Lees, Egginton, Etwall, Findern, Foremark, Ingleby, Mickleover, Newton Solney, Radbourne, Repton, Trusley, Twyford and Stenson, and Willington).
• 77C: Nottingham → Maid Marian Way → Broadmarsh → Victoria Centre → Canning Circus → Alfreton Road → Aspley Lane → Strelley → Cinderhill.
• These included lines to run along Mansfield Road to its junction with Broadmere Lane, along Chapel Bar, Derby Road, Alfreton Road, Hyson Green Road, Radford Road, David Lane and a terminus in Mill Street; on Derby Road to the intersection with the railway crossing at Lenton Station; along Woodborough Road, Alfred Street and Carlton Road to a terminus at the junction with Oldham Street; the whole length of Forest Road, Basford Road, Elm Avenue and a terminus in High Church Street.
• Barbara Leigh Smith was born on 8 April 1827, to Anne Longden, a milliner from Alfreton, Derbyshire and a Whig politician, Benjamin "Ben" Leigh Smith (1783–1860), the eldest son of the Radical abolitionist William Smith.
• He also turned out professionally for St Mirren, Hibernian, Grimsby Town and Mansfield Town before finishing his career in Non-league football with Alfreton Town, Guiseley and Worksop Town He later managed non-League clubs Worksop Town, Buxton, Ilkeston Town, Frickley Athletic and Grantham Town.
• Incoming were mostly free transfer signings and included promoted Wycombe Wanderers goalkeeper Scott Brown, Cambridge United captain centre-half Leon Legge, 30-year-old Carlisle United central midfielder Luke Joyce and troubled but talented Peterborough United striker Ricky Miller (signed for an undisclosed fee); also arriving were Alfreton Town winger Brendon Daniels, Aldershot Town Player of the Year Manny Oyeleke, The New Saints centre-back Connell Rawlinson, Gateshead defender Theo Vassell, Stevenage midfielder Tom Conlon, and former AFC Bournemouth loanee Ben Whitfield, whilst former fan's favourite Louis Dodds, teenage striker Idris Kanu, forward Scott Quigley, full-back Mitch Clark and midfielder Lewis Hardcastle also joined on season-long loan deals.
• The village is located between the towns of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Eastwood, Alfreton, Heanor and Ripley.
• These cover south and central Derbyshire (including Derby, Alfreton, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Belper, Heanor, Ilkeston, Matlock, Ripley and Swadlincote), parts of east Staffordshire (including Burton upon Trent) and north-west Leicestershire, and very small parts of Nottinghamshire.
• Muirhead dropped into non-league football in 2008 where he has played for Alfreton Town, Farsley Celtic, King's Lynn, Harrogate Town and Buxton, Armthorpe Welfare and Retford United.
• After spending periods of time playing for Northwich Victoria, Droylsden, Alfreton Town and Ilkeston Town, Senior signed for FC Halifax Town in 2008.
• He notably played as a professional for Reading, Bristol Rovers, Barnet, Aldershot Town, Southend United and Grimsby Town, as well as in Non-league football for Tamworth, Hayes & Yeading United, Ebbsfleet United, Alfreton Town, Basingstoke Town, Oxford City, Hungerford Town, Slough Town, Hampton & Richmond Borough, Biggleswade Town, Staines Town and Bracknell Town.
• Born in Alfreton in Derbyshire, Varley became a coal miner before winning election as a checkweighman.
• A third service between Derby and Ilkeston, via Breadsall and Stanley Common, was operated on behalf of Derbyshire County Council, numbered 59, but the retendering process operated by the council saw the contract awarded to K & H Doyle of Alfreton; the last day of Felix 59 operation was 27 October 2007.
• EMT managed the following stations: Wellingborough, Kettering, Corby, Market Harborough, Leicester, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, Stamford, Narborough, Hinckley, Loughborough, East Midlands Parkway, Long Eaton, Derby, Kidsgrove, Chesterfield, Sheffield, Beeston, Nottingham, Alfreton, Sleaford, Boston and Skegness.
• He was born in 1918, in the small railway village of Westhouses, near Alfreton in Derbyshire, the son of a former dining car attendant, colliery banksman and then railway fitter, Gordon Henry Warwick.

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