Borrowash

Borrowash

infobox UK place
country = England
static_

static_image_caption=
latitude= 52.90
longitude=-01.37
official_name =Borrowash
population =
shire_district=
shire_county= Derbyshire
region= East Midlands
constituency_westminster= Erewash
post_town=
postcode_district = DE72
postcode_area=DE
dial_code=01332
os_grid_reference= SK4234

Borrowash audio|En-borrowash.ogg|pronounced (listen) is a village in the Erewash district of Derbyshire, England, situated immediately east of the Derby city boundary.

Amenities

At the centre of Borrowash village is Somerfield supermarket, which is surrounded by a number of shops including a butchers, a newsagents, a branch of the Derbyshire Building Society (where an armed robbery took place during 2007), a Nationwide Building Society agency, insurance brokers, financial advisers, two estate agents, a pet shop, four hairdressers/barbers, a post office, a library, a hardware shop, a tackle shop and florists.

There are also four public houses, an Indian restaurant, two Chinese takeaways, a cafe and a small kebab shop [Information correct as of January 2008.] .

The village has a football team (Borrowash Victoria A.F.C.), although their ground is in the neighbouring Derby suburb of Spondon. The village's only school is Ashbrook [http://www.ashbrookinfant.co.uk/index.asp Infant] and [http://www.ashbrookjuniorschool.co.uk/index.asp?id=1 Junior School] .

The Borrowash web site is the [http://www.borrowash.com Borrowash Community InterNetwork] .

The local charity is the [http://www.ockash.org.uk Ockash Trust] .

Transportation

There are buses to Derby, Ockbrook, Spondon, Ilkeston, Draycott, Risley and Nottingham.

To the south of the village there was once a railway station (Borrowash railway station opened by the Midland Railway) and the Derby Canal with two locks. The station was built in 1839 and closed to passengers in 1966. The canal is currently being restored, with the work on one of the locks nearing completion [ [http://www.derbycanal.org.uk/ The Derby and Sandiacre Canal Society website.] ] . The area which the canal used to run through is currently a public footpath linking Borrowash and Spondon.

Clubs, associations and community groups

* [http://www.borrowbrook.borrowash.com/ Borrowbrook Home Link] for Borrowash & Ockbrook Senior Citizens
* [http://www.community-net.co.uk/member.asp?Description=Boys%20Club&URL=http://www.community-net.co.uk/borrowash/boysclub&Banner=cmty2.htm Boys Club of Borrowash & Ockbrook]
* [http://www.community-net.co.uk/member.asp?Description=Girls%20Club&URL=http://www.community-net.co.uk/borrowash/girlsclub&Banner=cmty2.htm Girls Club of Borrowash & Ockbrook]
* [http://www.ockash.org.uk/ Ockash Trust]
* [http://www.ockbrook.co.uk/ Borrowash & Ockbrook Archaeological & Historical Society]
* [http://www.community-net.co.uk/generic/org/community/index.asp?Org=114 Borrowash & Ockbrook Community Centre]
* Ockbrook & Borrowash Cricket Club
* [http://www.ockbrookfc.co.uk Ockbrook Football Club]
* [http://www.borrowash.com/ Borrowash Community Web Site]
* [http://www.labour.borrowash.com/ Borrowash & Ockbrook Labour Party]
* [http://www.community-net.co.uk/borrowash/watch/ Borrowash & Ockbrook Neighbourhood Watch]
* Borrowash & Ockbrook Women's Institute
* [http://www.methodist.borrowash.com Borrowash & Ockbrook Methodist Church]
* [http://www.ockbrook.com Ockbrook Community Network]

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