Lambley seems miles away from the hustle and bustle of the City of Nottingham and the Town of Arnold, but infact Lambley is only 6 miles from the City of Nottingham and only 2 miles from Arnold Town. The isolation of the village is mainly due to its location which is in the bottom of a steep hill in a natural basin, which is horse shoe in shape. The village is fed by water from the Cocker Beck down the steep slopes into the village along a winding path, (the area is known locally as the Lambley Dumbles) creating on its way small water falls and weirs. The area each side of the Cocker Beck are covered in steep banks covered these days with woods, due to the absence of any major road the village has kept its rural feel, in fact the first bus was seen in the village in 1920.
Lambley is first noted as a village
in the Doomsday Book in 1086, but really no other notable accurance is
mention after that date for quite a while. Lambley's claim to any kind
of fame is that Lord Ralph Cromwell who was born in 1394 became the Lord
Treasurer of England to Henry VI and was responsible for submitting the
first budget to Parliament.
Lambley strayed briefly from its agricultural life in the early 1800's with the advent of the stocking machines, in the year 1844, 381 stocking machines frames were being operated in the village, many of the cottages and house's still bear the marks of the specially design windows that were needed to allow the right light to enter the room where socking frame were located.
Lambley
village
Ancient Monument 164
Lambley has several listed buildings on being Ancient Monument 164 this late medieval or post medieval mound is believed to have been a fort, also recent excavations have reveled mill artifacts.
Listed Grade I
Church of the Holy Trinity, Church Street.this church was originally built in the 11th century, and rebuilt in 1470. The church's construction is of dressed stone , some of the windows are original from 15th century. The chancel screen dates from 1377, but was restored in 1966. The alter stone was buried at the Reformation and recovered earlier this century, the stone has five cross's symbolizing the five wounds of Christ.
Listed Grade II
| (1)Brookside
Cottage (Catfoot Lane) this is a late 17th century house is
made from timer frame and bricks, the new part of the house is made from roughcast bricks and white washed, the original timber frame is still visible from the west side of the house. |
| (2) 16
Church Street, this is an early 17th century house is constructed
with some timber frame, other parts are built from roughfaced brick whitewashed. |
| (3) Lambley
House (Hungerhill Lane), this early 19th century brick and
stucco farmhouse is "L" shaped, the adjoining house was stables, now converted to a house. |
| (4) 18
Main Street. this is a mid 18th century brick house, there is a large
opening which contains a shop door and shuttered window. |
| (5) 52
Main Street, this was originally two timber frame house's now
converted into one house, the framed part of the building is brick noggins, with the later parts being rendered brick. |
| (6) Mill
House, Mill Lane., this as the name suggests was a mill house
built around 1820, with a 2 storey 19th century wing. |
The above are only a few of the more notable of the buildings in Lambley, this village as Woodbrough seem to have missed the general movement of time and still retains it rural look and feel.
The village of Lambley supports only three public house's these days although there have been many more, the following are the only one's now left.
The Woodlark Inn
The Robinhood and Little John
The Lambley (Formally The Nags Head)