Place:Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, England

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Attenborough is a village and a suburb of Nottingham in the Broxtowe District or Borough of Nottinghamshire. It is located to the southwest of the city, between Long Eaton (to the southwest) and Beeston (to the northeast). The population of the Borough of Broxtowe ward which includes Attenborough as taken at the 2011 UK census was 2,328. It adjoins the suburbs of Toton to the west and Chilwell to the north.

As stated below, Attenborough used to be a parish containing Chilwell and Toton. In 1866 the civil parish was renamed Toton and included Attenborough.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Attenborough from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"ATTENBOROUGH, a village and a parish in the [registration] district of Shardlow and county of Nottingham. The village stands at the confluence of the Erwash and the Trent, adjacent to the Nottingham railway, 1½ mile NE of Long-Eaton junction, and 5 SW of Nottingham. The parish comprehends the township of Toton and the hamlet of Chilwell; the latter of which has a post office under Nottingham. Acres: 2,843. Real property: £8,507. Population: 1,110. Houses: 240. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the curacy of Bramcote, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value: £250. Patron: G. S. Foljambe, Esq. The church is large and good. Charities, £19. Henry Ireton, the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell, was a native."