Description: Looking South-east along Wollaton Road towards St Leonards Church. In the Domesday Book (1086) there is no mention of a church at the place it calls Olaveston, but by 1200 there was a stone building on the site. The mining of coal for hundreds of years ensured the prosperity of Wollaton and its owners. The church was extended at the end of the Middle Ages and again in 1880. From the 1920s Wollaton was drawn into the expanding suburbs of the City of Nottingham and the building was enlarged further in 1970. The Mortein family were responsible in the early days and then the Willoughby family looked after the building as part of their wider estate for six centuries up to 1925. Their descendant, Lord Middleton, as patron of the parish, still has a role to play in the appointment of a new rector. The picture also shows the Admiral Rodney pub on the left (Admiral (later Lord) Rodney was commander in chief in Jamaica from 1771-1774. He led the resistance from Port Royal and eventually defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Saints). Also showing the covered village water pump.