Bulwell

• The Bulwell Library was established in 1923 as part of a chain of libraries.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Bulwell Library on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.
   
• The Bulwell Riverside Library is located on Main Street. They are open six days most weeks and have a Local History section.
   

• Nottingham Northern Cemetery opened in 1900 at Hempshill Lane. It was known at the time as the Northern or Corporation Cemetery.
   
• Photographs and a map can be found at 49 Squadron.
   
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of Bulwell (Northern) Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2012.
   
• High Wood Cemetery is just west of town near Nuthall and all the graves are aligned to face north-west, a Muslim practice that has riled many a Christian. This cemetery apparently opened only in 2006 off Low Wood Road, so it is new.
   
• Oxymoron has a photograph of a Memorial to Police Constable Ged WALKER on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008. This police officer was killed whilst on duty in 2003.
   
• Susan CHURCH has a photograph of the gravestone for William Frederick STARBUCK on Flickr.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and All Saints. Locally it is known as St. Mary's Church.
   
• Some Directories of the 1800s give the dedication to Saint Margaret, but I believe that was just an error that kept being repeated in later copies.
   
• The church was built in 1850 on the site of the original Bulwell church, which was erected in the 13th century. The older church was severly damaged by weather in 1843.
   
• The church was built in the Early English style.
   
• The church organ was added in 1871 as a memorial to Samuel Robert COOPER.
   
• There is a somewhat dark photograph of St. Mary the Virgin's Church in Coventry Road on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Mary the Virgin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
   
• The church seats 800.
   
• A new church was built in 1884 on Quarry road and dedicated to Saint John the Devine.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2012.
   
• This church seats 600.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1621 for baptisms and burials, and from 1702 for marriages.
   
• The church was in the No. 1 deanery of Nottingham.
   
• The new deanery of Bulwell was created in 1888.
   
• The Methodist New Connexion had a chapel here by 1869. Recently, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church group has been using the chapel.
   
• The Primitive Methodists chapel was built here on Quarry Road in 1867.
   
• The Baptist Chapel in Main Street was built in 1875 and can seat 700.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Baptist Chapel on Coventry Road on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2017.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here in 1882 in the Italian Style.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Baptist Church in Coventry Road on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.
   

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

This village and parish are on the River Leen 4 miles north-west of Nottingham city and 133 miles north of London.

This village is now the north-west suburb of Nottingham city. If you are planning a visit:

• Note: Locals call the place "Bool".
   
• Take a look at the bus schedules in Greater Nottingham.
   
• Check the bus and coach schedule at Carlberry Co.
   
• If you have the time, enjoy the Bulwell Forest Golf Course as photographed here by Roger TEMPLEMAN on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bulwell to another place.

• The earliest settlements in the parish have been dated back to 800 AD.
   
• Bulwell ("Buleuuelle") is mentioned as a village in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• In the 1800s most of the working population were frame-work knitters. Others were bootmakers and limestone burners.
   
• The village feast was held on the Sunday after the 5th of November.
   
• Ben BROOKSBANK has a photograph of an Up Coal Train on Geo-graph, taken in July 1963. You can see a Bulwell Export warehouse in the background.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the The Horseshoe Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.
   

Bulwell Hall was built in 1770. It was demolished in 1958.

During World War Two it was a prisoner of war camp for Italian soldiers.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK535455 (Lat/Lon: 53.004152, -1.204195), Bulwell which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• In 1869, the Robin Hood Rifle corps (1st Nottinghamshire Volunteer Rifles) was stationed at Bulwell Hall; major Samuel Thomas COOPER, commanding.
   
• Bulwell Hall was a World War II Italian Prisoner of War camp.
   
• Bulwell Hall was demolished in 1958.
   
• The Traces of War website tells us that there are 158 Commonwealth War Graves for World Wars I and II in the Nottingham Northern Cemetery.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of the Territorial Army Centre, Hucknall Lane on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   
• There is a War Memorial in Saint Mary's church to the 11 choirmen who served in WW1 unveiled by Alderman J. HOUSTON Mayor of Nottingham, Two of the men were killed.
   
• There is a War Memorial Celtic Cross just outside the church door at St. Mary the Virgin and All Souls Church. It is a Grade II listed monument. The inscription reads: 'In grateful memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. Their names are placed on the tablet outside the west wall of the church and live for ever in our memory.'
   

The two choirmen who died were:

1. Henry Camm, lcprl. 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters
2. John William North, pte. Machine Gun Corps

The names on the War Memorial plaque (which includes the men mentioned above) outside the church are:

1. Frank Adams
2. Charles Allen
3. Frank Allen
4. Thomas Allington
5. Wilfred Arthur Alliss
6. Albert Alton
7. Anthony Alton
8. Edward Anderson
9. John Ernest Ashmore
10. Frank Aspland
11. Percy George Austin
12. Arthur Everatt Bacon
13. Clarence Herbert Bacon
14. David Baldry
15. John B Balloch
16. George Samuel Barker
17. J. E. Barker
18. Clarence Barlow
19. Ernest Barnes
20. Harry Barratt
21. Walter Beardmore
22. George Berridge
23. Horace Robert Betts
24. Thomas Betts
25. John Thomas Bexton
26. Robert Black
27. William Bland
28. George Alfred Bland
29. John Robert Bland
30. Alfred Bonner
31. Fred William Bonser
32. Samuel Vincent Boot
33. William Bosworth
34. Harold Boulton
35. Fred Brand
36. Claude Ernest Braybrooke
37. Frank Arthur Brearley
38. Joseph Brooks
39. Frank William Brown
40. George Brown
41. E. Brown
42. H. Brown
43. Horace Buckland
44. Thomas Burton
45. William Thomas Burton
46. George Button
47. George Camm
48. Henry Camm
49. Henry Pattison Carey
50. Charles Edwin Carratt
51. George Carter
52. Frederick Charles Chamberlain
53. Henry Ernest Chambers
54. Thomas Chambers
55. Thomas Chambers
56. Thomas Cheetham
57. Leonard Blake Chester
58. Percy William Christian
59. E. Clark
60. Joseph George Clark
61. Charles Frederick Cleaver
62. Bruce Henry Clements
63. Charles Herbert Coates
64. Joseph Cockayne
65. Charles William Cooke
66. Marshall Cotterill
67. Harry Cottingham
68. John William Cox
69. George William Cox
70. Albert Crich
71. Sydney Cutts
72. Frank Danby
73. Frank Ernest Davis
74. W. Davis
75. Samuel Robert Dawes
76. John Horace Daykin
77. Arthur Deverill
78. Albert Dickinson
79. Fred Edwards
80. Thomas Ennis
81. Andrew Fardell
82. James Robert Farmer
83. William Ernest Farmer
84. George Faulks
85. George Frederick William Ferriman
86. Levi Fisher
87. John William Ford
88. George Fox
89. Harold Fox
90. William Ernest Gadsby
91. Leonard Gadsden
92. Fred Garlick
93. Vernon William Gellatly
94. John Gent
95. Marshall Keith Gilberthorpe
96. John William Gilham
97. Leslie George Goodacre
98. Thomas Goodwin
99. John Henry Greenway
100. Albert Grocutt
101. G. Hallam
102. Charles Edward Halliday
103. Charles Henry Hames
104. John William Hames
105. Jonathan Wallace Hancox
106. Frederick Hardy
107. George Hardy
108. E. Harper
109. S. Harper
110. Albert Harrison
111. John Hart
112. Joseph Hart
113. J. W. Hartshorn
114. Clarence Leonard Harvey
115. John Henry Harvey
116. W. Harvey
117. Lot Haywood
118. Hugh Heaney
119. Ernest Hencher
120. Andrew Henshaw
121. John William Hewes
122. Harry Hewis
123. Percy Highton
124. Frank Farmer Hind
125. F. Holland
126. George Robert Holton
127. Matthew Bates Hopkins
128. E. Hopkinson
129. Horace Horsley
130. Leonard Horton
131. Harry Leonard Hubble
132. Frederick Charles Hulbert
133. William Humphries
134. Thomas Hutchinson
135. William Henry Hutchinson
136. Joseph Illsley
137. John William Jackson
138. William Jackson
139. Frederick James
140. Percy Jeffs
141. Ernest Jepson
142. Thomas Johnson
143. Edward Jones
144. S. Jones
145. Harry Keeble
146. W. E. Kemp
147. Arthur Kendall
148. Leonard King
149. Harry Kirkham
150. William Lakin
151. F. Lane
152. George William Lane
153. Charles Law
154. H. Lea
155. Gordon Leatherland
156. Harold Leatherland
157. Leslie James Leatherland
158. Harold Leighton
159. Harry Leivers
160. William Lester
161. Alfred Little
162. Thomas Lownds
163. William Henry Lowe
164. James Major
165. Arthur Males
166. James Marlow
167. George William Marriott
168. Clifford Marsland
169. John Gordon McCulloch
170. Thomas Mee
171. William Metcalf
172. William Henry Mills
173. George Henry Moon
174. John Mooney
175. George Henry Newbutt Moore
176. William John Lanard Moore
177. George Moreman
178. Thomas Edwin Morley
179. Alonzo Murby
180. Claude Murden
181. Albert Edward Naylor
182. John Noble
183. John William Nock
184. John William North
185. John Albert Oldfield
186. William Oliver
187. Isaac Orme
188. William Edwin Owen
189. William James Palmer
190. George Parr
191. Arthur Patterson
192. Frederick Albert Pearl
193. Samuel Henry Pendleton
194. Henry George Perry
195. Harold Phillips
196. Harold Pilkington
197. Arthur Pinkett
198. Fred Pinkett
199. T. Pinkett
200. William Pinkett
201. Wilfred Pipkin
202. John Pitt
203. George Pollard
204. James Redgate Pollard
205. S. Pollard
206. William Walter Poole
207. George Porter
208. Frederick William Price
209. Harry Priestley
210. G. Radford
211. Leonard Leslie Radford
212. John William Radford
213. William Rance
214. Alexander Read
215. Percy Read
216. Walter Read
217. Albert Redmile
218. George William Rhodes
219. John Rhodes, RN, HMS Hood
220. John Richards
221. Edward Richardson
222. Harold Roadley
223. Cyril Edmund Robinson
224. Frank Eric Robinson
225. David Roome
226. Joseph Henry Sansom
227. John Sargent
228. Henry Seymour
229. John Roland Seymour
230. Enoch Shakespeare
231. George William Sharp
232. William Percy Sharrock
233. Leonard Shaw
234. Henry Shepherd
235. William Amos Shipley
236. Joseph Henry Shorthouse
237. Frederick Lawrence Simpson
238. Bertie Skate
239. Herbert Slack
240. John Slack
241. Samuel Henry Slack
242. John Smedley
243. Andrew Smith
244. Henry Smith
245. Horace George Smith
246. Henry H. Smith
247. Joseph Smith
248. Percy Smith
249. Theophilus Smith
250. Thomas Smith
251. Walter Smith
252. J. H. Smith
253. George Spencer
254. Albert Edward Spencer
255. George Alfred Spencer
256. Joseph Spencer
257. John William Spray
258. Frederick Charles Staley
259. Vincent Stapleton
260. Charles Starbuck
261. Thomas Starbuck
262. John Barnes Starkey
263. W. Statham
264. John Joseph Stenson
265. Alexander Stevenson
266. Archie Stevenson
267. B. Stevenson
268. George Thomas Stevenson
269. Herbert Stevenson
270. William Stokes
271. William Henry Storer
272. H. Stuart
273. Robert Styles
274. Albert Styring
275. S. W. Taylor
276. Percy Taylor
277. C. Thomas
278. William Edwin Thorne
279. Ernest Frederick Todd
280. John Henry Turton
281. Albert Twells
282. Frank William Tye
283. Samuel Unwin
284. John William Verity
285. S. Vernon
286. Walter Henry Wadsworth
287. John Henry Wakelin
288. Sydney Waldron
289. W. Walker
290. Leonard Wall
291. Sydney Josiah Walters
292. John William Warhurst
293. James Waring
294. James Warner
295. Ernest Warren
296. Wilfred Warren
297. George Edward Webb
298. Gilbert Weston
299. J. Whalley
300. Leonard Whalley
301. Charles Whittlesey
302. William Walter Wibdy
303. Alfred Douglas Widdowson
304. George Samuel Wildgust
305. Harold D. Wildgust
306. Harold Wildgust
307. Herbert Wildgust
308. Charles Henry Wilkinson
309. Albert Henry Williams
310. Herbert Haydn Wilmot
311. Ernest Winfield
312. Luke Winfield
313. William Winfield
314. Richard Wombwell
315. Albert Wood
316. George Woodward
317. Harold Woodward
318. James Woodward
319. William Thomas Woodward
320. Harry Worley
321. Francis Douglas York
322. William Arthur Young

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county.
   
• This parish was in the north division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• This parish has become part of the conurbation of Nottingham city and was officially made a part of the city and Civil Parish in April, 1899 by the "Nottingham Borough Extension Act".
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Old Town Hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009. The Hall was built in 1894. It is currently a retail outlet.
   

• In 1798, George ROBINSON left £50 and the interest was distributed each year to the parish poor.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	1,585
1841	3,157
1851	3,786
1861	3,660
1871	4,276
1881	8,574
1891	11,481

• The free school was founded and endowed in 1688 by George STRELLEY. This school was closed in 1881.
   
• National Schools with separate rooms for boys and girls were built in 1867, with Samuel Thomas COOPER the primary contributor. It could hold 518 children. It is now known as the C of E primary school.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of St. Mary's School on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   
• The primary school is Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, tele: (0115) 913 5007.
   
• Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the Bonington Junior Community School on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2007.