Breadsall, Little Eaton & Stanley Common

Breadsall, Little Eaton and Stanley Common form a group of villages and hamlets in the Erewash borough of Derbyshire. Breadsall contains the converted priory now run as a country house hotel and the parish church of St Edmund, and the village sits amid fields, lanes and small woodlands. Local lanes link farmsteads, housing clusters and a handful of village services such as a post office, a pub and a primary school that serve surrounding residents and visitors on foot or by road.

Little Eaton preserves traces of its industrial past: sections of the late 18th-century Little Eaton Gangway, a former horse-drawn tramway route, remain as raised earthworks and paths that anglers and walkers cross. The village supports shops, a cricket club and short public trails that connect to surrounding farmland. Stanley Common is smaller, with a village hall and community events that tie it to the nearby parishes. Together the three places combine living, local history and countryside access within a compact area of Derbyshire.