  beeston is a town in nottinghamshire, england. it is  southwest of nottingham city centre. although typically regarded as a suburb of the city of nottingham, and officially designated as part of the nottingham urban area, for local government purposes it is in the borough of broxtowe, lying outside the city's unitary authority area. to the immediate northeast is the university of nottingham's main campus, university park. the pharmaceutical and retail chemist group boots has its headquarters on a large campus just 1&nbsp;km east of the centre of beeston, falling on the border of broxtowe and the city of nottingham. to the south is the river trent, attenborough and its extensive wetlands.attenborough nature centre map of attenborough wetlands ==geography== suburban development of the mid-twentieth century means that the built up area of beeston is now continuous with the former villages of chilwell to the west, and wollaton and lenton abbey to the north; beeston is to a degree separated from bramcote to the northwest by the beeston fields golf course. the broxtowe-city of nottingham border runs immediately to the east of the town and this essentially forms the town's eastern edge. there are two main areas of the town; north of the railway line (the midland main line) lies the main part, including the main shopping district, whilst south of the line lies the mixed housing and industrial area of beeston rylands. ===rylands=== thumb|right|the beeston canal passing through rylands rylands was historically more at risk of flooding from the river trent to the south, and this has meant that property here was less desirable, and led to more modestly sized houses being constructed, originally mostly for rental. the last serious flood was in 1947 and reach
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