Colwick
As described in 1871:
"COLWICK, a parish in Basford district, Notts; on the river Trent, and on the Nottingham and Grantham railway, 2½ miles E of Nottingham. Post town, Nottingham. Acres, 1, 255. Real property, £3, 412. Pop., 110. Houses, 20. The property is all in one estate. Colwick Hall is the seat of-J. Musters, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £220. Patron, J. Chaworth Musters, Esq. The church is good; and has monuments of the Musterses and the Byrons."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
- The parish was in the Carlton sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2445 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2679 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
- The church stands close to Colwick Hall.
- The church was repaired and partially rebuilt in 1684.
- The church deteriorated over time and was unused for a number of years.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the old St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2008.
- There is a history of St. John's Church at the Southwell Churches History Project website.
- A new church was built and opened in June, 1951.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the new St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2009.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1569 and is on parchment in fair condition.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Nottingham.
- The parish was in the Carlton sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Colwick is a small village and was a parish which stood under a long range of hills on the north and west bank of the Trent River. The village stood 3 miles east of Nottingham proper and 125 miles north of London. It is now a part of the conurbation of Nottingham city.
The village was once known for producing "Colwick Cheese". If you are planning a visit:
- Start your visit in Nottingham and ask the local tourist office how to find Colwick.
- Colwick Hall was built in 1776. It stood about a mile west of the village on the banks of the Trent River.
- Colwick Hall suffered considerable damage from the Nottingham reform rioters of 1831.
- The national grid reference is SK 6140.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- There is a white War Memorial obelisk just outside the church, near the road.
- There are several War Memorial plaques inside the church. To see their inscriptions, go to the Southwell Church History Project website.
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the northern division of the ancient Thurgaton Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
- The parish was abolished in April, 1935, and divided between Nottingham, Carlton and Holme Pierrepont Civil Parishes.
| Year |
Population |
| 1801 |
116 |
| 1831 |
146 |
| 1851 |
120 |
| 1861 |
110 |
| 1871 |
101 |
| 1881 |
113 |
| 1891 |
450 |
| 1901 |
899 |
| 1911 |
1,055 |
| 1921 |
1,423 |
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[Created: 16-March-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
