[3] The built up areas in the parish are Beauvale, Giltbrook, Moorgreen (often confused with Greasley), Newthorpe, Watnall and parts of Eastwood, Kimberley and Nuthall.

[2] Greasley (then Griseleia) is mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to William Peverel[7] and being worth ten shillings.

[9] The remains of Greasley Castle, a medieval fortified manor house, have been incorporated into a range of farm buildings.

[10] To the north, on the edge of High Park Wood, are the remains of Beauvale Priory, founded in 1343, and one of only nine Carthusian monastic houses built in England.

[14] The local author D H Lawrence used it as a setting in two of his books, calling it Willey Water in Women in Love and Nethermere in The White Peacock.