Bunny
"Bunny is situated on the A60 Nottingham to Leicester road, about 7 miles south of the centre of Nottingham. Immediately to the south of Bunny are the rolling hills of the Wolds. A distinctive feature of the village, even from a distance, is the large red brick tower of Bunny Hall, the ancestral home of the Parkyns family. The hall has a high brick wall giving it privacy from the village, and enclosing a large area of parkland.
The whole area, apart from the wooded slopes of the escarpment to the south (where gypsum is quarried) is totally agricultural, where the farms were owned by the Parkyns family and leased to the tenant farmers."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
- The parish was in the Wilford sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2446 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2680 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin.
- The church is believed to date from the 14th century.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
- There is a history of this church at the Southwell Church History Project website.
- For current information on the church, check the Keyworth benefice website.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1556.
- The church was in the rural deanery of West Bingham.
- The parish was in the Wilford sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This village and parish are 7 miles south of Nottingham on the high road to Longborough (now the A60 trunk road). The parish covers just over 2,050 acres and includes Windmill Hill.
If you are planning a visit:
- By bus or coach, check the Carlberry web site for route information.
- The national grid reference is SK 5829.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- Inside the church, mounted on the walls are two War Memorials, one for WWI and one for WWII, and a Roll of Honour for World War One. You can read a transcription of these plaques at the Southwell Church History Project site.
- This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the ancient Rushcliffe Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
- John SUTTON has a photograph of the almshouses on Geo-graph, taken in 2013.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
359 |
| 1811 |
374 |
| 1841 |
360 |
| 1881 |
262 |
| 1891 |
239 |
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[Last updated: 25-February-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
