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Askham

"Askham Parish, in the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, is a neat village, on a pleasant declivity, three miles north of Tuxford. It extends westward to the Idle, includes the hamlet of Rockley, and contains 398 inhabitants and 1,440 acres of good clay land, upwards of 20 acres of which are in hop yards. The Archbishop of York is lord of the manor, which is partly copyhold and partly leasehold for the term of three lives. The Archbishop holds a court once a year.
The church is a small gothic edifice, with a tower and three bells, and was re-pewed in 1849. The living, a perpetual curacy, is a member of the vicarage of East Drayton, being in the patronage and enjoyment of the incumbent of East Drayton. The great tithes are in the appropriation of the Dean and Chapter of York, and were commuted in 1844 for the sum of £200, and the vicarial for £70 5s 0d."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church dedication is reported as "unknown".
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1539.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1873. A second chapel was built in Rockley hamlet in 1875.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Tuxford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village and parish lie 139 miles north of London, about 2.5 miles north-west of Tuxford and about 5.5 miles south-east of Retford. The parish covers about 1,274 acres and includes the hamlet of Rockley.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The village is just north off of the A57 trunk road as it passes to the north of Tuxford.
  
  

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Directories

• An extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7474.
  
  
• 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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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Nottinghamshire. It is uncertain when it became a Civil Parish.
  
  
• This place was in the Southwell and Scrooby Liberty.
  
  
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the county.
  
  
• In April, 1935, the parish was reduced by 185 acres which were tranfered to the East Markham Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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Population

Year	Population
1801	220
1851	401
1861	287
1871	290
1881	219
1891	219
1901	240
1911	250
1921	236
1931	217

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