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Burton Joyce (or Burton Jorce)

"Burton Joyce, anciently called Burton Jorz, from a distinguised family of that name, who were owners till the reign of Henry VIII. It is a pleasant, well-built village on the Southwell Road, six miles north-east by east of Nottingham, sheltered on the north by a range of lofty hills, which bound the vale of the Trent. Its parish includes the small chapelry of Bulcote.
Burton Joyce is mostly the property of the Earl of Chesterfield, but R.W. Padley Esq. and Thomas Wilson M.D. have estates here. It contains 690 inhabitants and upwards of 1,000 acres of land, enclosed in 1770, when allotments were made in lieu of the tithes. The Earl is also lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the vicarage, which is valued in the King's books at £4 19s 2d, now £145, and has 70 acres of glebe, exclusive of land at Lowdham, purchased with Queen Anne's Bounty. The Rev. John Rolleston M.A. is the incumbent."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Cemeteries

• Burton Joyce Cemetery is located near the Anglican churchyard. It opened for burials in 1879. The cemertery is under the control of the parish council's Burial Board.
  
  

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Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
  
  
• The church was founded during the reign of Edward the Confessor.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1879.
  
  
• Also in 1879 the churchyard was closed for new burials. After that date burials were in the new cemetery under the control of the Parish Council
  
  
• There is a history of this church at the Southwell Church History Project website.
  
  
• There's a nice photograph of the churchyard gate on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
  
  
• The Anglican parish chapel in Bulcote was rebuilt in 1862, replacing an ancient Saxon place of worship.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559 and has been kept in excellent condition.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Nottingham.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1824.
  
  
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
  
  
• The Congregationalists had a chapel built here between 1869 and 1881.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

Burton Joyce is both a village and a parish on the River Trent, 135 miles north of London, about 5.5 miles north-east of Nottingham city and 9 miles south-west of Southwell. The parish covers 1,940 acres.

Bulcote is a small village and Chapelry often associated with this parish, although it was officially an extra-parochial area. It was also in a different Poorlaw Union (Southwell) and sat 1 mile north-east of Burton Joyce village.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A612 arteria road north-east out of Nottingham city. After about 5 miles, the A612 bisects the village of Burton Joyce.
  
• There is a train station on the south side of Burton Joyce, made considerably smaller in the 1960s. At last check, there was still passenger service from Nottingham or Newark-on-Trent.
  
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph of Burton Joyce, Main street on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
  
  

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Directories

• An extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6443.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Military History

• Inside the church, mounted on the west wall, is a War Memorial for World War One. You can read a transcription of this plaque at the Southwell Church History Project site.
  
  
• There's also a War Memorial in the village to men who fell in both wars.
  
  
• Some of the names are on this Memorial Plaque for WWII.
  
  
• Other names are on this Memorial Plaque for WWI.
  
  
• And there is a third Memorial Plaque.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Thurgaton Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1770.
  
  
• Around 1786, the parish built a poorhouse for the united parishes of Gedling, Burton Joyce and Shelford. It was taken down in 1839 except for a small portion converted into a cottage.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
  
  
• The Bulcote extra-parocial area became a part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Burton Joyce	Bulcote
1801	447	148
1851	690	83
1861	698	136
1881	668	111
1901	931	93

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Schools

• A National School was built here in 1868.
  
  

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