Drakelow
{{Short description|Village in Derbyshire, England}}
{{For|the location in Worcestershire|Drakelow, Worcestershire}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|static_image = Drakelow hall c. 1880.jpg
|static_image_width = 250px
|static_image_caption=Drakelow Hall in about 1880
|coordinates = {{coord|52.774|-1.636|display=inline,title}}
|map_type = Derbyshire
|official_name =Drakelow
|population = 249
|population_ref = (2011)
|civil_parish= Drakelow
|shire_district = South Derbyshire
| shire_county = Derbyshire
|region = East Midlands
|constituency_westminster =
|post_town = BURTON ON TRENT
|postcode_district = DE15
|postcode_area =DE
|dial_code =
|os_grid_reference = SK246196
}}
Drakelow is a village and civil parish{{Cite web |title=Drakelow Parish Meeting – Serving the people of Drakelow |url=https://drakelowparish.gov.uk/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |language=en-GB}} in South Derbyshire, in Derbyshire, England. It is {{convert|2|mi}} south of Burton on Trent. The population of the civil parish including Caldwell and Cauldwell had at 2011 Census was 249.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122808&c=Drakelow&d=16&e=62&g=6414880&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458575642291&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=21 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}
Geography and history
Some of the land is lower flood plain but most occupies gentle slopes, all on the east bank of the River Trent.
Drakelow, whose name means 'Dragon's Mound', is mentioned in Domesday Book, but was deserted later during the Middle Ages. A chronicler at the nearby Burton Abbey, writing in the early twelfth century, claimed that this desertion took place because of supernatural events that had driven the residents away – specifically, attacks of two undead villagers from nearby Stapenhill.The episode is discussed in J. Blair, 'The dangerous dead in early medieval England', in Early medieval studies in memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. S. Baxter et al. (Aldershot, 2009), pp. 539–560. A translation and discussion of the source is available online at http://turbulentpriests.group.shef.ac.uk/revenants-revisited/
Drakelowe Hall or Drakelow Hall was the principal residence, and was home to the Gresley Baronets, but this was replaced by Drakelow Power Station and in turn its last cooling towers were demolished in September 2006.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/7048561.stm |title=Green light for new power station |publisher=BBC |date=17 October 2007 |access-date=23 February 2022}}
Drakelow Power Station
In 2005, the electricity company E.ON was given permission to build a new power station on the site of the previous. The proposed combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) is rated at 1,200 MW, and would provide sufficient power for 1,000,000 homes.{{cite web |url=http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/787.aspx |title=Drakelow CCGT |date=2005 |publisher=E.ON UK plc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011061726/http://www.eon-uk.com/generation/787.aspx |archive-date=11 October 2007 |access-date=23 February 2022}}
Planning permission for upgraded plant as such to reopen a power station was granted in 2007, with a condition that combined heat and power capability would be built into the plant should a customer come forward that was economically viable. This consent was twice extended until October 2015, and a grid connection has been secured until 2014, as of November 2013.{{cite book |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/ChurchGresley/Gaz1868 |title=The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland |chapter=CHURCH-GRESLEY, Derbyshire |date=1868 |via=Genuki |access-date=23 February 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.eonenergy.com/About-eon/our-company/generation/planning-for-the-future/gas/drakelow |title=Drakelow CCGT |date=2016 |publisher=E.ON UK plc |access-date=23 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230905/https://www.eonenergy.com/About-eon/our-company/generation/planning-for-the-future/gas/drakelow |archive-date=3 March 2016}}
See also
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