Bunny

The Library at Nottingham is an excellent resource.

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

• The Bunny Village History Society has census returns for 1841 - 1911 online.
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church is believed to date from about 1600.
   
• The church was partially restored in 1890.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of St Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of St Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2017.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1556.
   
• The Bunny Village History Society has baptisms for 1715-1929 online.
   
• The Bunny Village History Society has marriages for 1556-1929 online.
   
• The Bunny Village History Society has burials for 1750-1899 online.
   
• The Bunny Village History Society has monument inscriptions online.
   
• 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.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2017. You should stop in when they are open and request a schedule of forth-coming events.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

John Marius WILSON's, "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72" describes this place as:

"BUNNY, a parish in Basford district, Notts; 5 miles SE of Beeston r. station, and 6½ S of Nottingham. Post Town, Plumtree, under Nottingham. Acres, 2,000. Real property, £3,415. Pop., 273. Houses, 68. The property is all in one estate. Bunny Park was the seat of the erudite and eccentric Sir T. Parkyns; and passed to Lord Rancliffe. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bradmore, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £.425. Patron, Mrs. Forteath. The church is partly decorated English, and has a crocketted spire. There is an endowed school. "

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

• Information about Bunny from Rod Neep.
   

• Andy JAMIESON has a photograph of the Rancliffe Arms on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2009.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Bunny Hall's tower on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK583295 (Lat/Lon: 52.85984, -1.135543), Bunny 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.

Inside of St. Mary's Church there is a wall-mounted white marble plaque with black inscription honoring the men of the Bunny area who fell in World War One.

There are the 9 names listed on the War MemoriaI:

1. Richard Henry ANDERSON
2. Francis Hugh Leslie BOWETT
3. John Davis BUXTON
4. Fred CHALLANDS
5. Thomas Bosworth COLLINGS
6. Edward Henry Noble CORDEUX
7. Charles Edward HALLAM
8. Edwin HENSON
9. Frederick JOHNSON

The names on the War Memorial plaque can be found at the Nottinghamshire County site with details of service, family, etc.

The ancient name of this village and parish was "bune", an Old English word for "reed".

The parish name has been listed as Bunny, Bunney, and Boney in historical records. "Bunny" is the currently accepted version.

• 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.
   
• You may contact the local Bunny Parish Council regarding civic or politcal issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Richard ROGERSON has a photograph of the Almshouses founded by Sir Thomas PARKYNS in 1700 on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2010.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1798.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	359
1811	374
1821	395
1841	360
1871	226
1881	262
1891	239

The village school was originally built in 1700 by Sir Thomas PARKYNS.

• John SUTTON has a photograph of the School and Almshouses on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.