12 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St Mary MagdaleneGrade I listedChurch of All SaintsGrade II listedStanton-on-the-Wolds War MemorialGrade II listed+1See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 1 entry was listed in 1965, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 5 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

3.4% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 34% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Mat Wright

William Attewell

Arthur Pike

Walter Attewell

Thomas Attewell

Horace Pike

Thomas Armstrong

Thomas Simpson

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William Attewell1861–1927 · Cricket player of England. (1861-1927)

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Thomas Armstrong1872–1938 · British cricketer (1872-1938)

Arthur Pike1862–1907 · British cricketer (1862-1907)

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Thomas Attewell1869–1937 · English cricketer (1869-1937)

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Thomas Simpson1879–1961 · English cricketer (1879-1961)

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Mat Wright1858–1949 · English cricketer (1858-1949)

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Walter Attewell1865–1919 · English cricketer (1865-1919)

Horace Pike1869–1936 · English footballer (1869-1936)

Everyone born in Keyworth → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Keyworth has 12 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary Magdalene. Only 84 of the 817 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.

Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include William Attewell (1861), Thomas Armstrong (1872) and Arthur Pike (1862). Its homes are mostly newer: 5.5% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.