The area is bounded by Nottingham city centre to the west, Bakersfield to the north, Colwick to the east, and the River Trent to the south.

When the area that is now Nottingham was settled by the Anglo-Saxon chieftain "Snot", he named the settlement "Snottingham" (the homestead of Snot's people, where inga = the people of; ham = homestead),[5] and the area east of the city, also settled by Saxons, was called "Snottington" (the suffix ton = farmstead settlement).

[9] Until the 19th century Sneinton was no more than a village, standing on a high ridge about a mile east of Nottingham town centre overlooking the valley of the River Trent.

The village was to change dramatically when the principal landowner of the time, the First Earl Manvers, sold off the land between Nottingham and Sneinton to developers.

[10] When the founder of the mill died, his son, renowned mathematician George Green, inherited and operated it until his death in 1841.

[12] It was later converted into a boarding school named King Edward's, governed by the infamous head master Alfred Tanner and his wife Mary.

At the end of the Nineteenth century, the Third Earl Manvers sold off the remainder of the Pierrepont family land to developers, who subsequently build all of the Victorian housing on the slopes of Sneinton Dale.

[15] A map produced by the local Civil Defence Departments showed that many of the industrial units on Meadow Lane received direct hits.

A large amount of modern housing was built during this period, as well as five multi-story tower blocks, all of which stand to the present day.

Around this time, economic migrants began to settle in Sneinton, drawn by affordable housing near to places of work.

[17] As of 2014, Sneinton has the 11th lowest crime rate out of the 25 Nottingham districts, beating all other comparable inner city areas (such as St Ann's, the Meadows, and Radford).

[19] In the 1930s, the wholesale fruit and vegetable market moved from Slab Square in the city centre to a new location on the edge of Sneinton.

This was soon expanded by demolition of decaying dwellings to establish individual brick units arranged in rows for the traders, together with a new market place for stallholders.

Conversion of the old Brook Street multi-storey telephone exchange into student accommodation brought a greater population with longer trading days,[2][4] and the area gained a nickname of 'Creative Quarter'.

[20] The old market place was converted into a pedestrian plaza, with the Victoria Baths being extended in 2012 into a larger multi-function leisure facility.

The ward boundary mostly runs south of Carlton Road but some estate agents may describe property north of it around Victoria Park as being in Sneinton rather than the troubled area of St Ann's.

[7][26] Nottinghamshire's sandstone ridges can easily be dug with simple hand tools to create artificial cave dwellings.

The general area around what is now Nottingham was once known in the Brythonic language as "Tigguo Cobauc" meaning "The Place of Caves" and was referred to as such by the Bishop of Sherborne Asser in 893 AD in The Life of King Alfred.

[29] In 1829 a rock collapse destroyed these buildings, and in 1897 a railway expansion forced Manvers Road to divert, cutting away much of the rockface, erasing most of Sneinton's remaining caves.

[22] This urban regeneration project has been called "Nottingham Eastside" by developers, and the start date was pushed back numerous times due to a lack of funding during the Great Recession.

The area includes the Lace Market, Hockley, Broadmarsh East, the Eastside Island site and BioCity, the project aims at creating growth and jobs.

[37] There are around a dozen public houses in Sneinton, the oldest of which is The Lord Nelson, sited in a 500-year-old building which was originally a coaching inn called The Hornbuckles.

The Festival Week begins on a Saturday, and involves seven days of arts-based free and open events held in and around Sneinton.

It is a mixture of grassland and ancient woodland, and forms a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

[39] Green's Mill is a restored and working 19th century tower windmill, located at the top of Belvoir Hill, overlooking the city of Nottingham.

Made from stainless steel, it was created by local craftsman Robert Stubley after residents of Sneinton were asked by the Renewal Trust what they would like to see as a piece of public art to represent their area.

St Mary's and St. George's is the local Coptic Christian place of worship, and Bethesda represents the Pentacostal faith.