Balderton
"Balderton is a pleasant and well-built village and parish, 2 miles south-east of Newark, containing 1,048 inhabitants and 4,050 acres of land, at the annual value of £6,930. It was anciently famous for its Lords, the Bussey's, who lived in the Conqueror's time, and whose posterity held it till Queen Elizabeth's reign, after which it descended to the Meers and Lascels. It is now owned principally by the Duke of Newcastle, who is lord of the manor, which was soc to Newark. Matthew Harvey, William Withers and Thomas S. Godfrey Esqrs. also have estates here, the latter of whom built New Hall, a neat mansion, in 1840. The Great Northern Railway intersects the parish.
The church, dedicated to St Giles, is a very handsome edifice, principally in the latter style of the English architecture, with a lofty spire and five bells. It has a richly ornamented Norman porch of exceeding beauty, and in good preservation. The benefice is annexed to the vicarage of Farndon. The prebendary of Farndon, in Lincoln Cathedral, is the appropriator, but he and the incumbent received allotments at the enclosure, in 1768, in lieu of all the tithes, except those which are still paid on about 125 acres of crown land. A Methodist chapel was erected here in 1813. An annual feast is held on the first Sunday after September 12th."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
- The parish was in the Balderton sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1841 |
H.O. 107 / 842 |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2481 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Giles.
- The church was built in the 12th century and enlarged in the 13th and 14th centuries.
- The Anglican parish registers date from 1538.
- The parish was in the deanery #2 of Newark.
- The Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists each had a chapel here in 1813.
- The parish was in the Balderton sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Balderton is a village and a parish only 1.75 miles south-east of Newark, 20 miles from Nottingham city and 118 miles north of the city of London. The parish borders on Lincolnshire and covers 3,707 acres.
Balderton village is one of the largest villages in Nottingham and is considered by many to be a suburb of Newark on Trent. If you are planning a visit:
- The A1 motorway used to run through the village but a modern bypass now skirts the place.
- The nearest railway stop is Newark.
- Balderton Lake provides a place to relax and hosts a local fishing club.
- The Grove Leisure Centre contains two swimming pools.
- The national grid reference is SK 8151.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- During World War II. the RAF operated out of Balderton starting in 1941. The arifield was closed in 1957.
- Sir Frank WHITTLE, inventor of the jet engine, worked on his jet engine designs in Balderton Hall.
- The village appears to be of Anglo-Saxon origin and is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as Baldretune.
- Locals pronounce the name as "Bollerton".
- Locals call the A1 road well out of the village towards Grantham the "ramper".
- This place was an ancient parish and chapelry in county Nottingham.
- The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
- The parish is currently designated as being in the Newark and Sherwood district of the county.
- In April, 1935, this Civil Parish ceeded 82 acres to Newark-on-Trent Civil Parish.
- The parish council meets in the Village Centre on Coronation Street.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1766.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
- The parish became the head of a sub-district for the Newark Poorlaw Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
636 |
| 1811 |
659 |
| 1831 |
830 |
| 1841 |
899 |
| 1851 |
1,048 |
| 1871 |
1,009 |
| 1881 |
1,075 |
| 1891 |
1,404 |
| 1901 |
2,203 |
| 1911 |
2,824 |
- A local School Board was formed 1871.
- A National School was built here in 1846, but had been founded in 1726 by WIlliam ALVEY.
- Around 1900 a senior school was opened on Main Street and a primary school on London Road opened in 1903.
- Chuter Ede is a primary school which opened in 1964 on main Street and moved to Wofit Avenue in 1967.
- The Grove School provides secondary education to eleven to eighteen year-olds as a science college.
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[Last updated: 29-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
