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"Arnold Parish extends from three to nearly six miles north of Nottingham, contains 4,704 inhabitants, and 4,670 acres of land, including 2,280 acres of Sherwood Forest. It was enclosed in 1789, when 700 acres were allotted to the impropriator, which was then sold to Thomas Holdsworth Esq., who is subject to the reparation of the church; and 23a 3r 37p were allotted to the Crown.
Arnold is a large and populous village, half a mile east of Mansfield Road, and four miles north of Nottingham. It is pleasantly seated upon a sand rock, and has several neat mansions. The inhabitants are principally employed in framework knitting. Arnold Grove is a beautiful residence, occupied by William Williams Esq., solicitor."
The church dedicated to St. Mary, is a large ancient fabric, with a tower and four bells. A new vestry was added in 1838. The vicarage, valued in the King’s books at £7. 17s. 8d., now at £310, is in the patronage of thc Duke of Devonshire. The Rev. George Francis Holcombe is the incumbent, and the Rev. George Atkinson curate, who resides at the vicarage, a commodious mansion, near the church.
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

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Archives & Libraries

The local Library is in Arnold Town Centre on Front Street and has a Local History section.  Parking is available at the Arnold Leisure Centre.  The Library is open six days per week and is a branch of the Nottingham County Council Library System:

  • Arnold Library
  • Front Street
  • Arnold, Notts, NG5 7EE
  • Tele: 0115 920 2247

This was once known as the Carnegie Library when built in Nottingham Road in 1906. The library was demolished in 1981 and is now the site of a Wilkinson's store. The new Library was refurbished in 2015.

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Bibliography

M. E. SPICK, "Arnold and Bestwood in old photographs", Alan Sutton Publishing/NCC Leisure Services, ISBN 0 862 99954 5

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Cemeteries

  • The Arnold Cemetery, set aside in 1877, covers 4 acres and had two mortuary chapels when formed. The cemetery is at Redhill, on the Nottingham-Mansfield road.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the two mortuary chapels at Arnold Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
     
  • The first burial here appears to be in July, 1879.
     
  • The Arnold Cemetery is administered by the Burial Board of the Urban District Council.
     
  • The churchyard burial ground contains headstones from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Many have been moved to the sidewalls of the burial ground and some of the older ones are inside the church itself. Burials ceased here in 1879 when the public cemetery at Redhill opened.
     
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Census

  • The parish was in the Arnold sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1841H.O. 107 / 855
1851H.O. 107 / 2128
1861R.G. 9 / 2443
1871R.G. 10 / 3492 thru 3494
1891R.G. 12 / 2676 & 2677
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Church History

  • A church is believed to have been built here in 1176.
     
  • The present church chancel and nave were added on to the 1176 structure on Church Lane in 1320 with a tower added in 1450.
     
  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
     
  • The church nave was restored in 1868 and the chancel in 1877.
     
  • A Bosworth turret clock with three dials was installed on the tower in 1868.
     
  • The church has its own website with several pages of information.
     
  • St Katherine’s Chapel in the church was refurbished shortly after World War One and rededicated to the memory of the 252 men of Arnold who had lost their lives in the Great War.
     
  • Richard VINCE has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
     
  • Tom COURTNEY also has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2004.
     
  • Daybrook was established as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1896, the year its church was erected.
     
  • The church at Daybrook is dedicated to Saint Paul.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Paul's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
     
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Church Records

Church/Denomination/FoundedRegisterStart
St Mary's (Anglican)Baptisms
Banns
Marriages
Burials
B.T.s
1544
1754
1546
1544
1605
St. Paul's (Anglican) 1890Baptisms
Marriages
1890
1896
Church Street (General Baptist) 1822 (rebuilt in 1909)Membership1890
Primitive Methodist 1829-1829
Meeting House (General Baptist) 1848-1848
Weekly Communion (Baptist) 1825-1825
Wesleyan Methodist pre-1800--
Mormon 1849 1849
  • The Anglican parish church was in the rural deanery of Nottingham.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the United Reformed Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010. This church replaced the original Congregational Chapel of 1871.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Reform Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018. This church has been sold and is scheduled to be demolished.
     
  • Barbara Kilby CROFT provides this Ebenezer Chapel Marriage list for those interested.
     
  • Richard VINCE has a photograph of the King's Centre Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014. The church opened in 2002.
     
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Civil Registration

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

Nottinghamshire Police have been headquartered in Arnold since 1979. Mick GARRATT has a photograph of the Oxclose Lane Police Station on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006

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Description & Travel

This village and parish lie about 4 miles north of Nottingham and about 10 miles south-east of Mansfield. The parish covers 4,670 acres and includes the hamlets of Daybrook and Red Hill.  Felley  used to be a chapelry in this parish but became its own Civil Parish and is reported under that name.

The village of Arnold has become part of the conurbation of Nottingham city and sits as a suburb on that city's northeast side. Red Hill is a village just northwest of Arnold that is considered part of Arnold. If you are planning a visit to the village:

  • Take the A60 trunk road north out of Nottingham. Arnold will be on your right side (east) as you head north.
     
  • There is frequent bus service into the village from Nottingham.
     
  • Rail service to the village ceased in April, 1960.
     
  • Sherwood Forest starts just to the north of Arnold. In 1775, Sherwood Forest surrounded the village.
     
You can see pictures of Arnold which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

John Marius WILSON's 1872 "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales" describes this place as:

ARNOLD, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Basford, Notts. The village stands near Sherwood forest, 2½ miles ENE of Bulwell r. station, and 5½ N by E of Nottingham. It has a post office‡ under Nottingham. Its inhabitants are employed chiefly in lace and stocking making. The parish includes also part of Daybrook hamlet and the seats of Arnold Grove and Sherwood Lodge. Acres, 4,570. Real property, £12,059. Pop., 4,642. Houses, 971. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £310. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is later English, and has a tower. There are chapels for Sc. Presbyterians, Baptists, Wesleyans and P. Methodists. A school has £23 from endowment, and other charities £10. R. Bonington the painter, born in 1801, was a native.-The subdistrict comprises six parishes and an extra-parochial liberty. Acres, 18,540. Pop., 8,378. Houses, 1,779.
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Genealogy

From the London Chronicle: In April, 1780, about nine o'clock, as John HEARSON, of Arnold, in Nottinghamshire, was riding through the town of Arnold, both himself and horse were struck dead by a flash of lightning.

Richard Parkes BONINGTON was born in Arnold on 25 October 1802. BONINGTON learned watercolour painting from his father Richard and exhibited paintings at the Liverpool Academy at the age of eleven. In 1817, BONINGTON's family moved to Calais, France, where his father had set up a lace factory. In 1818, the BONINGTON family moved to Paris to open a lace shop. In 1824, he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon. In late 1828 his tuberculosis worsened and his parents sent him back to London for treatment. BONINGTON died of tuberculosis on 23 September 1828, just a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday.

A statue of Richard P. BONINGTON was erected outside the Nottingham School of Art by Watson FOTHERGILL. A primary school in town is named for him. The house in which he was born (79 High Street, Arnold) is now named ‘Bonington House’ and is Grade II listed.

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History

  • In the 1800s many of the inhabitants were frame-work knitters (often abbreviated FWK in many records).
     
  • Arnold was one of the first sites of the Luddite uprising in 1811, when 63 frames were smashed.
     
  • The village feast was held on the first Sunday after the 19th of September.
     
  • The Home Ales Brewery was founded here in 1875 in Daybrook.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Robin Hood (and) Little John pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
     
  • David LALLY has a photograph of the former Lord Nelson pub. in Front Street on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
     
  • Thomas COURTNEY has a photograph of the Travellers Rest Inn on the B684 northeast of Arnold on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2004.
     
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK586454 (Lat/Lon: 53.002721, -1.128222), Arnold which are provided by:

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Military History

  • There are photographs and a description of the War Memorial plaques inside St. Katherine's Chapel on the Southwell Church History Project site. One of them is the Allen SOLLY plaque listed in the next section.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a World War II Pillbox near Arnold on the Geo-graph site, taken in August, 2011.
     
  • You can try to find a copy of the "Arnold & Daybrook War Memorial," by Anthony BALL & Cliff HOUSLEY, publ. by Millquest Publications, Long Eaton, Notts, ISBN: 0 9529648 7 2.
     
  • Peter BARR has a photograph of the Former Drill Hall on Arnold Road, built around 1913 for the 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, on the Geo-graph site, taken in August, 2014.
     
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Military Records

There are 81 Commonwealth War Graves in Arnold Cemetery. In the listings below, some names are on more than one memorial.

There is a Roll of Honour plaque in St. Mary's Church. These are the names listed on the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

  1. Joseph Ainger
  2. Robert Ainger
  3. Thomas Allcock
  4. William Allcock
  5. George William Allen
  6. Samuel Allen
  7. Frank Ancliff
  8. Walter Annable
  9. Walter Anthony
  10. Joseph William Arbon
  11. George Armson
  12. Robert Armson
  13. William Henry Askew
  14. Christopher Ernest Atherley
  15. Thomas Walter Atherley
  16. George Atkin
  17. Lawrence Bertram Atkinson
  18. Frederick Richard Bagguley
  19. Walter William Ball
  20. Oliver Herbert Ball
  21. Wilfred Bancroft
  22. Ernest Barber
  23. Walter Barnes
  24. Henry Richard Barratt
  25. Colin Bell
  26. Eric Bell
  27. Leonard Bennett
  28. Cyril Bird
  29. Arthur Edward Blacknell
  30. Charles Richard Bowtell
  31. George Harold Bradley
  32. Joseph Arthur Broad
  33. Henry Cecil Brown
  34. Samuel Brown
  35. Frank Burton
  36. William Burton
  37. John Leslie Butler
  38. Bertie William Campion
  39. Thomas Cartledge
  40. Henry Wells Cash
  41. Wilfrid Arthur Cash
  42. Albert Cast
  43. William Casterton
  44. Herbert Chamberlain
  45. Alfred William Chapman
  46. James Churm
  47. Walter Clark
  48. Claude Harry Clark
  49. Leonard William Clarke
  50. Jonathan Clegg
  51. James Frederick Newham Colbourne
  52. William Colledge
  53. Thomas Henry Colley
  54. William Cook
  55. Eric Rushton Cooke
  56. Thomas Cooke
  57. Walter Cooke
  58. Thomas Cooper
  59. Walter Corah
  60. Arthur Cresswell
  61. Alec Dabell
  62. James Dalby
  63. Solomon Davis
  64. Frederick Richard Denham
  65. Leonard Denham
  66. William Denham
  67. Frederick Dennison
  68. John Desborough
  69. John Clarke Dexter
  70. Edward Dobb
  71. Samuel Dove
  72. Sydney Owen Dyer
  73. Frank Eastgate
  74. George Ellis
  75. Thomas Ellis
  76. Walter Edward Ellis
  77. Thomas James Everton
  78. Christopher Arnsed Fell
  79. Percy Fell
  80. Henry Fish
  81. Geoffrey Herbert Fisher
  82. John Wilfred Fisher
  83. George Henry Ford
  84. William Forrest
  85. William Foster
  86. George James Fox
  87. Walter Ernest Fox
  88. Frederick Fulham
  89. Albert Edward Garratt
  90. Herbert Gent
  91. Albert Gilbert
  92. William Godfrey
  93. Richard Gosling
  94. Robert Goss
  95. George Henry Gray
  96. Ernest Gregg
  97. Basil Gretton
  98. John Henry Gretton
  99. Harold Grundy
  100. Albert Guy
  101. Joseph William Hague
  102. Herbert Nelson Hammond
  103. George John Hammond
  104. John James Hart
  105. Joseph Hart
  106. Edward John Thomas Hartshorn
  107. George Arthur Collingwood Hartshorn
  108. Lawrence Hartshorn
  109. William Robert Harvey
  110. George Gordon Hodson
  111. John William Holbrook
  112. Alfred Ernest Holmes
  113. Charles Hopewell
  114. Alfred Horton
  115. Bert Horton
  116. Samuel John Hough
  117. Arthur Hudson
  118. James Hudson
  119. James Hudson
  120. Harty Batham Hunt
  121. William Hunt
  122. James Huskey
  123. Edward Hyde
  124. Jack Hyde
  125. Walter Hyman
  126. John Jeffery
  127. Harry Johnson
  128. John Hollingworth Jordan
  129. Samuel Jordan
  130. Frank Kinnerley
  131. Harry Kinnerley
  132. Edward Kirk
  133. Edward Kirk
  134. Francis Henry Kirk
  135. Martin Luther Lacey
  136. John Thomas Lane
  137. Wallace Lane
  138. William Lane
  139. Charles Langford
  140. Cecil Charles Lear
  141. Harold Leivers
  142. Joseph Leivers
  143. Harold Frederick Lindsell
  144. Walter Lindsell
  145. Eric Linnell
  146. Albert Horace Lucas
  147. Sam Lucas
  148. Charles Mackintosh
  149. George Maddock
  150. Harold Lot Mansell
  151. Joseph Martin Mansell
  152. Christopher Marriott
  153. Roland Marriott
  154. Frank Marshall
  155. Harold Marshall
  156. Frederick John Marshall
  157. Frank Martin
  158. Fred Martin
  159. Horace Hardy Mayfield
  160. Horace Mayfield
  161. Leonard Augustus Mayfield
  162. Bertie Mee
  163. William James Melbourne
  164. William Merrin
  165. Alfred Moore
  166. Benjamin Moore
  167. Frederick William Moore
  168. James Moore
  169. James William Moore
  170. Isaac Morris
  171. John Ingram Morris
  172. William Morris
  173. William Nash
  174. Lewis Needham
  175. John Arthur Northage
  176. Alec Taylor Oldham
  177. Ernest William Orange
  178. Herbert Samuel Orange
  179. Richard Wilson Ormandy
  180. John Henry Oscroft
  181. Harold Owen
  182. Gordon Palmer
  183. Joseph Palmer
  184. Thomas Palmer
  185. Walter Parr
  186. Charles Henry Pearson
  187. John Pearson
  188. Samuel Percy Peck
  189. William Peck
  190. Alfred William Ping
  191. Bernard Raynor
  192. Ernest Reavill
  193. William Rennocks
  194. Charles Edward Richardson
  195. James Rimmington
  196. Edward George Robinson
  197. Samuel Rockley
  198. George Thomas Roe
  199. George Rose
  200. Samuel Rose
  201. William Rose
  202. George Henry Ruffles
  203. Alfred Edwin Sanders
  204. Alfred James Sarles
  205. Francis Saxton
  206. James Scott
  207. Charles Grant Seely
  208. George Sharratt
  209. Percy Sheldon
  210. William Foley Sheldon
  211. James Dunn Simpson
  212. Arthur Smith
  213. Harry Smith
  214. Thomas Spouge
  215. Daniel Harold Stenhouse
  216. George Stevenson
  217. Jesse Stevenson
  218. John Henry Stokes
  219. George Stones
  220. Frederick Stretch
  221. John Stretch
  222. George Sudbury
  223. James Sulley
  224. John Sulley
  225. Joseph Sulley
  226. Sidney Sulley
  227. Arthur Surgey
  228. George William Taylor
  229. John Bernard Teece
  230. Thomas Bernard Terry
  231. John Thomas (Tom) Tolley
  232. William Henry Tolley
  233. Tom Townsend
  234. John Edward Turner
  235. Samuel Turner
  236. Thomas Cyril Turner
  237. Arthur Leonard Varley
  238. Albert Ernest War
  239. Ernest Ward
  240. William Wardle
  241. Alfred Watson
  242. Bertram Owen Webster
  243. Herbert Webster
  244. Charles Wells
  245. Harold Wells
  246. Arthur Wheat
  247. George Henry Wheatcroft
  248. James Wheatley
  249. John Wheatley
  250. George Frederick Williamson
  251. Joseph Ernest Wright
  252. Albert Yates

There is a War Memorial plaque from the Allen SOLLY Company in St. Mary's Church. These are the names engraved on it, per the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

  1. Walter Annable
  2. Thomas Cartledge
  3. William Casterton
  4. Walter Cooke
  5. James Moore
  6. John Pearson
  7. Charles Henry Pearson
  8. George Rose
  9. Samuel Rose
  10. William Rose
  11. James Sulley
  12. George William Taylor
  13. Harold Wells

There is a War Memorial Celtic wheel cross on tapering plinth in Arnot Hill Park. These are the names engraved on it, per the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

  1. Joseph Ainger
  2. Robert Ainger
  3. Thomas Allcock
  4. William Allcock
  5. George William Allen
  6. Samuel Allen
  7. Frank Ancliff
  8. Walter Annable
  9. Walter Anthony
  10. Joseph William Arbon
  11. George Armson
  12. Robert Armson
  13. William Henry Askew
  14. Christopher Ernest Atherley
  15. Thomas Walter Atherley
  16. George Atkin
  17. Lawrence Bertram Atkinson
  18. Frederick Richard Bagguley
  19. Oliver Herbert Ball
  20. Walter William Ball
  21. Wilfred Bancroft
  22. Ernest Barber
  23. Walter Barnes
  24. Henry Richard Barratt
  25. Colin Bell
  26. Eric Bell
  27. Leonard B. Bennett
  28. Cyril Bird
  29. Arthur Edward Blacknell
  30. Charles Richard Bowtell
  31. George Harold Bradley
  32. Joseph Arthur Broad
  33. Henry Cecil Brown
  34. Samuel Brown
  35. Frank Burton
  36. William Burton
  37. John Leslie Butler
  38. Bertie William Campion
  39. Thomas Cartledge
  40. Henry Wells Cash
  41. Wilfrid Arthur Cash
  42. Albert Cast
  43. William Casterton
  44. Herbert Chamberlain
  45. Alfred William Chapman
  46. James Churm
  47. Claude Harry Clark
  48. Walter Clark
  49. Leonard William Clarke
  50. Jonathan Clegg
  51. James Frederick Newham (Colbourne)
  52. William Colledge
  53. Thomas Henry Colley
  54. William Cook
  55. Eric Rushton Cooke
  56. Thomas Cooke
  57. Walter Cooke
  58. Thomas Cooper
  59. Walter Corah
  60. Arthur Cresswell
  61. Alec Dabell
  62. James Dalby
  63. Solomon Davis
  64. Frederick Richard Denham
  65. Leonard Denham
  66. William Denham
  67. Frederick Dennison
  68. John Desborough
  69. John Clarke Dexter
  70. Edward Dobb
  71. Samuel Dove
  72. William A. Dove
  73. Sydney Owen Dyer
  74. Frank Eastgate
  75. George Ellis
  76. Thomas Ellis
  77. Walter Edward Ellis
  78. Thomas James Everton
  79. Christopher Arnsed Fell Jnr.
  80. Percy Fell
  81. Henry Fish
  82. Geoffrey Herbert Fisher
  83. John Wilfred Fisher
  84. George Henry Ford
  85. William Forrest
  86. William Foster
  87. George James Fox
  88. Walter Ernest Fox
  89. Frederick Fulham
  90. Albert Edward Garratt
  91. Herbert Gent
  92. Albert Gilbert
  93. William Godfrey
  94. Richard Gosling
  95. Robert Goss
  96. George Henry Gray
  97. Ernest Gregg
  98. Basil Gretton
  99. John Henry Gretton
  100. Harold Grundy
  101. Albert Guy
  102. Joseph William Hague
  103. George John Hammond
  104. Herbert Nelson Hammond
  105. John James Hart
  106. Joseph Hart
  107. Edward John Thomas Hartshorn
  108. George Arthur Collingwood Hartshorn
  109. Lawrence Hartshorn
  110. William Robert Harvey
  111. George Gordon Hodson
  112. John William Holbrook
  113. Alfred Ernest Holmes
  114. Charles Hopewell
  115. Alfred Horton
  116. Bert W. Horton
  117. Samuel John Hough
  118. Arthur Hudson
  119. James Hudson
  120. James Hudson
  121. Harty Batham Hunt
  122. William Hunt
  123. James Huskey
  124. Edward Hyde
  125. Jack Hyde
  126. Walter Hyman
  127. John Jeffery
  128. Harry Johnson
  129. John Hollingworth Jordan
  130. Samuel Jordan
  131. Frank Kinnerley
  132. Harry Kinnerley
  133. Edward Kirk
  134. Edward Kirk
  135. Francis Henry Kirk
  136. Martin Luther Lacey
  137. John Thomas Lane
  138. Wallace Lane
  139. William Lane
  140. Charles Langford
  141. Cecil Charles Lear
  142. Harold Leivers
  143. Joseph Leivers
  144. Harold Frederick Lindsell
  145. Walter Lindsell
  146. Eric Linnell
  147. Albert Horace Lucas
  148. Sam Lucas
  149. Charles Mackintosh
  150. George Maddock
  151. Harold Lot Mansell
  152. Joseph Martin Mansell
  153. Christopher Marriott
  154. Roland Marriott
  155. Frank Marshall
  156. Harold Marshall
  157. Frederick John Marshall
  158. Frank Martin
  159. Fred Martin
  160. Horace Mayfield
  161. Horace Mayfield
  162. Leonard Augustus Mayfield
  163. Bertie Mee
  164. William James Melbourne
  165. William Merrin
  166. Alfred Moore
  167. Benjamin Moore
  168. Frederick William Moore
  169. James Moore
  170. James William Moore
  171. Isaac Morris
  172. John Ingram Morris
  173. William Morris
  174. William Nash
  175. Lewis Needham
  176. John Arthur Northage
  177. Alec Taylor Oldham
  178. Ernest William Orange
  179. Herbert Samuel Orange
  180. Richard Wilson Ormandy
  181. John Henry Oscroft
  182. Harold Owen
  183. Gordon Palmer
  184. Joseph Palmer
  185. Thomas Palmer
  186. Walter Parr
  187. Charles Henry Pearson
  188. John Pearson
  189. Samuel Percy Peck
  190. William Peck
  191. Alfred William Ping
  192. Bernard Raynor
  193. Ernest Reavill
  194. William Rennocks
  195. Charles Edward Richardson
  196. James Rimmington
  197. Edward George Robinson
  198. Samuel Rockley
  199. George Thomas Roe
  200. George Rose
  201. Samuel Rose
  202. William Rose
  203. George Henry Ruffles
  204. Alfred James Sarles
  205. Alfred Edwin Sanders
  206. Francis Saxton
  207. James Scott
  208. Charles Grant Seely
  209. George Sharratt
  210. Percy Sheldon
  211. William Foley Sheldon
  212. James Dunn Simpson
  213. Arthur Smith
  214. Harry Smith
  215. Thomas Spouge
  216. Daniel Harold Stenhouse
  217. George Stevenson
  218. Jesse Stevenson
  219. John Henry Stokes
  220. George Stones
  221. Frederick Stretch
  222. John Stretch
  223. George Sudbury
  224. James Sulley
  225. John Sulley
  226. Joseph Sulley
  227. Sidney Sulley
  228. Arthur Surgey
  229. George William Taylor
  230. John Bernard Teece
  231. Thomas Bernard Terry
  232. John Thomas (Tom) Tolley
  233. William Henry Tolley
  234. Tom T. Townsend
  235. John Edward Turner
  236. Samuel Turner
  237. Thomas Cyril Turner
  238. Arthur Leonard Varley
  239. Albert Ernest Ward
  240. Ernest Ward
  241. William Wardle
  242. Alfred Watson
  243. Bertram Owen Webster
  244. Herbert Webster
  245. Charles Wells
  246. Harold Wells
  247. Arthur Wheat
  248. George Henry Wheatcroft
  249. James Wheatley
  250. John Wheatley
  251. George Frederick Williamson
  252. Joseph Ernest Wright
  253. Albert Yates

There is a War Memorial plaque in the Beacon Baptist Church. The inscription reads: "In grateful remembrance of the men of this church who gave their lives in the service of their country 1914-1918 (names). 1939-1945 (names)". These are the names listed on it, as given by the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

  1. Walter Corah
  2. William Godfrey
  3. John Henry Gretton
  4. George John Hammond
  5. Herbert Nelson Hammond
  6. Joseph Leivers
  7. Lewis Needham
  8. Arthur Smith
  9. Harry Smith
  10. Arthur Wheat

1939-1945:

  1. J. ANTHONY
  2. H. B. ARTHUR
  3. G. A. ELLIOTT
  4. J. G. KAIL
  5. T. H. WORTON

And the Methodists have a War Memorial plaque in their church. These are the names listed on it, according to the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

  1. Thomas Walter Atherley
  2. Basil Gretton
  3. Francis Henry Kirk
  4. Harold Leivers
  5. George Rose
  6. Samuel Rose
  7. William Rose
  8. Daniel Harold Stenhouse
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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • This parish was in the northern division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
     
  • In April, 1933, the parish gave up 107 acres to enlarge Nottingham Civil Parish.
     
  • The parish became part of the Gedling Borough Council whose headquarters are located in the Civic Centre at Arnot Hill Park.
     
  • The parish is considered a suburb of Nottingham City, although it is not within its urban boundaries.
     
  • The parish is currently in the government district of Gedling.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • The Common Land was enclosed here in 1789.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
     
  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
     
  • Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Sir John ROBINSON's Almshouses on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.
     
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Population

 YearInhabitants
18012,768
18113,042
18213,572
18314,054
18414,509
18514,704
18614,642
18714,634
18815,745
18917,769
19018,757
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Schools

  • A Free School was established by Daniel CHADWICK on High Street some time before 1869.
     
  • A National School on Church Street was built in 1860.
     
  • The High Street Infants' School was built in 1895 to hold 480 students. Average attendance in 1912 was 379.
     
  • A British School for 150 boys was opened in February, 1868 and later enlarged.
     
  • Daybrook had a mixed school erected in 1878 and enlarged in 1889 to hold 463 students.
     
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Societies

Contact the Local History Society for additional source material.