KINOULTON
Bricks were originally manufactured in Kinoulton at a site near to the ‘Old Schoolroom’. The canal served for both raw material and transporting the finished product. There was a wharf alongside with stone edgings but is overgrown and difficult to see. Kinoulton brick was used in building a number of dwellings in the village including the church, Field Farm, Bishops Close and many more that now have a rendered exterior. The original brickworkers lived in Bailey’s Row at the east end of the village. Pasture Hill Farm was purchased in 1919 by Sir Jesse William Hind, a Nottingham solicitor, as a place to train destitute orphans. He renamed the farm Vimy Ridge in dedication to his son, Lieutenant Jesse Francis Montague Hind, who was killed in action on September 27th 1916. Sir Jesse, previously of the Park in Nottingham, planted an avenue of 184 Lombardy Poplar trees to commemorate his son and the officers and men of the 9th Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters Regiment who died during the battle of the Somme at Vimy Ridge over the period 7th July to 30th November of 1916. The avenue of Poplars runs 1 km west from Owthorpe Lane and terminates at the farm. A number of trees have been replaced by new planting of the same species as part of the village of Kinoulton's Millennium celebrations and in 2007/8 a further 70 trees were cut down and replaced by Notts County Council. The trees are included in the War Memorial Register, No 59076, in memorial of the 9th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters.
A earlier view of the Lombardy Poplars from the canal
2020