History
King's Mill, the nearby crossing on the River Trent, is mentioned in a charter agreed by Æþelræd Unræd (King Ethelred the Unready) in 1009 regarding the boundaries of Weston-on-Trent. Dunintune or Dunitone is mentioned twice in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having land belonging to Countess Ælfgifu and land assigned to Earl Hugh.
Castle Donington also had its own power station later operated by Powergen from 1990, which when originally built in 1958 was one of the largest coal-fired power stations in Europe, and was officially opened by Nikita Khrushchev the then leader of the Soviet Union. However, this was closed in September 1994 and demolished in 1996.
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