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Car Colston

"Car Colston is a small village and parish situated 2½ miles north-north-west of Bingham, and contains 319 inhabitants, and 1,640 acres of strong clay land, of which Mrs Ellen Lower is the principal owner, lady of the manor, and impropriator. John Hacker Heathcote Esq., Rev. Robert Hall and Mr William Blagg are owners, and a few others have small estates. The houses mostly stand around two open commons, which contain about 23 acres.
At the Conquest, Coleston was partly ancient demesne, and partly of the fee of Roger de Busli, and passed successively to the Cheyneys, Lovetots, Vanxes, Colstons, Thorotons, Arnalls, Willoughbys &c.

The Church, dedicated to St Mary, has a handsome tower and four bells, and was appropriated to Worksop Priory in 1349. In Thoroton's time the tithes belonged to the Duke of Newcastle, but being charged with £20 yearly by the King, and £4 to the church of Lincoln, they were then of not much value to His Grace. The vicarage is valued in the King's books at £6 1s 10½d, now at £203. The Rev. John Chancourt Girardot is the incumbent, whose father purchased the right of patronage a few years ago. In 1842 the tithes were commuted at £315 for the impropriator, and £153 1s 6d for the vicar. In 1838 Mr Girardot took down the old vicarage, and erected, at a short distance, a handsome building in the Elizabethan style, with stone mullioned windows and other stone dressings, with neat grounds around. The parish feast is the Sunday after June 15th. In 1835 a small Wesleyan chapel was built by Mr John Marriott."

[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district in the Bingham 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 Mary.
  
  
• The date of construction is unreported, but was prior to 1349.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
  
  
• There is a history of the church at the Southwell Churches History Project website.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1570 and is in good condition.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery No. 2 of Bingham.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel built here in 1835.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

This parish and village lie about 120 miles north of London, 3 miles north-west from Aslocton, 2 miles north-east of Bingham parish and 12 miles east of Nottingham. The parish covers about 1,640 acres.

The Roman Fossway (Now the A46 arterial) passes through the northwest edge of the parish. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A612 northeast out of Nottingham or southwest out of Newark. The A617 passes along the north edge of the village.
  
  

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Directories

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

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History

• The village feast was held on the Sunday after the 15th of June.
  
  
• Dr. Robert THOROTON, the author of the "Hisotry and Antiquitites of Nottinghamshire," 1677, lived and was buried in this place.
  
  

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Manors

• Colonel HACKER, who commanded the guards when Charles I was beheaded, formerly resided in the old hall.
  
  
• Car Colston Hall stands in a new location in a park of 120 acres.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7242.
  
  
• 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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Military History

• There is a single War Memorial inside the church, consisting of a wooden panel some 4.5 feet tall. It lists the names of the men who fell in WWI. Below it is a chest dedicated to "the Few" from the Battle of Britain.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• The parish is a member of the Rushcliffe Borough of Nottinghamshire.
  
  
• Today, because the parish is small, it has a parish meeting instead of a parish council.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• In 1616, Gregory HENSON left Brushmore Close for the use of the poor.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	152
1851	319
1861	299
1871	263
1881	276
1891	215
1901	217
1911	223
1921	243

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Schools

• There was a parochial school for both sexes here in 1846.
  
  

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