Nottinghamshire

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Nearby Places

Bradmore

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was built in the thirteenth century and the octagonal spire added in the fourteenth century.
  
  
• The Anglican parish church was destroyed by fire in the Great Fire of Bradmore in July 1705, when a large part of the village was destroyed.
  
  
• Nothing remains of the old church except the ruins of the tower and the spire.
  
  
• The parishioners attend the church at Bunny.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1556.
  
  
• This parish is not included on the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Bingham (or Bingham #3 deanery).
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel built here in 1830.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

Bradmore is both a village and a parish about 6 miles south of Nottingham city and 9 miles north of Loughborough. The parish covers 1,254 acres.

The hamlet of Deepdale lies about 1.5 miles north-east of the village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A60 trunk road south out of Nottingham city. The A60 bisects the village about 6 miles south of the city.
  

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Land and Property

• As part of the Millennium celebrations recently, the parish decided to research all the families which have lived in the village, the houses they lived in and the names of the fields they cultivated. This document, which is now many hundreds of pages long, will be deposited in the Nottingham Record Office.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 5831.
  
  
• 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 the county of Nottingham. It became a modern Civil Parish early in the formation of those political units.
  
  
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Rushcliffe Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The parish had funds of about £8 or £9 yearly for apprenticing poor children.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1861	296
1871	267
1881	279
1891	244
1901	230
1911	199
1921	201

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Schools

• The children of this parish went to school in nearby Bunny.
  
  
• Secondary school children now attend the South Wolds School in nerby Keyworth.
  
  

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