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Annesley

"Annesley parish contains the two townships of Annesley and Felley, comprising 239 inhabitants and 3360 acres of land, and forming a romantic and richly wooded district. The trustees of the late John Musters Esq. are the principal owners and lords of the manor, but the Duke of Portland has an estate here of 289 acres.

Annesley is a small picturesque village, six and a half miles S.S.W. of Mansfield. At the conquest it was of the fee of Ralph Fitz-Hubert, and afterwards was possessed by the Annesleys for many generations, when their heiress carried it in marriage to the Chaworths of Wiverton, with whose late heiress it passed to the late John Musters Esq."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Cemeteries

• The Annesley Cemetery, set aside in 1872, is on Annesley Cutting near the church. The cemetery was under the administration of the Burial Board of the Parish Council.
  
  
• Trevor RICHARD has a photograph of Annesley Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
  
  

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Census

• The parish was in the Greasly sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Church History

• There have been four Christian churches built in Annesley. The oldest, from Saxon times, is not well known.
  
  
• The second church was built in 1150 on a hill. It lasted until about 1350.
  
  
• The third church was built in 1356.
  
  
• The new Anglican parish church was built in 1874.
  
  
• This Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints and was built on a hill.
  
  
• The interior of the church was destroyed by a fire in 1907, but the church re-opened in 1909.
  
  
• The church is a grade 2 listed building by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
  
  
• Trevor RICHARD has a photograph of All Saints on Geo-graph, taken in 2010.
  
  

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Church Records

Church/Denomination/Founded	Register	Start
All Saints (Anglican)	Baptisms Banns Marriages Burials B.T.s	1599 1754 1599 1599 1605
Wesleyan Methodist (1815)	Baptisms	1890

• The Anglican church is in the Newstead Deanery.
  
  
• Phil EVANS has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Greasly sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village and parish lie 137 miles north of London, about 11 miles north-west of Nottingham and about 4 miles south by west of Mansfield. The parish covers about 2,770 acres and includes the hamlets of Wandesley and Annesley Woodhouse. Felley used to be a chapelry in this parish but is now its own Civil Parish and reported under that name.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The village is on the A611 south out of Mansfield, not far from the #27 roundabout on the M1 motorway.
  
  
• Rail service to the village ceased in 1953.
  
  
• Stop by the Village Hall on Byron Road and check for current activities.
  
  

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Directories

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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History

• There is a brief history at Old Notts.
  
  

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Manors

• Annesley Hall was originally built in the 13th century, but substantially enlarged in the 17th century. It was remodeled in 1938. It stood neglected and unoccupied in 2003.
  
  
• Annesley Hall is a grade 2 listed building, once owned by the powerful CHAWORTH-MUSTERS family, and near the earthwork remains of Annesley Castle.
  
  
• Lord Byron bid "adieu" to Mary CHAWORTH at Annesley Hall. He later revealed that his life would have been very different had he married her.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 5153.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Military History

• There is a war memorial plaque inside All Saints Church, along with a Roll of Honour.
  
  
• There is also a memorial to a Stirling Bomber that crashed in the parish in 1945.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This parish was in the northern division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
  
  
• The parish was in northern division of the county.
  
  
• You may contact the Parish Council about local politics or civic issues, but they are NOT staffed to answer family history questions.
  
  
• The parish is currently listed as being in the Ashfield district of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
Annesley	359	341	326	335	274	239	288	1,201	1,445	1,374	1,271
Felley	33	60	71	67	41	44	33	42	31	44	41

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Schools

• The village primary school is on Forest Road in Annesley Woodhouse.
  
  

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