Burnaston is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) southwest of the city of Derby. The English Wikipedia lead gives it a population of 1,531. The parish is best known for industry rather than for its village centre: it contains the headquarters and vehicle manufacturing plant of Toyota Manufacturing UK, which stands on the site of the former Derby Airport. The article records that Toyota decided in the second half of the 1980s to build a new factory in Europe, that the plant was established in December 1989 and that it opened on 16 December 1992, which makes a small Derbyshire parish one of the main places in Britain associated with car production.
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has a population of 1,531
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in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England
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