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Cropwell Bishop

"Cropwell Bishop is situated upon a gentle declivity on the east side of the Grantham Canal, one mile south of Cropwell Butler, and 4 miles south-east of Bingham. Its parish contains 640 inhabitants and 1,551 acres of strong clay land, the rateable value of which is £1,658 6s 5d. The principal part of the land belongs to the two prebendaries of Oxton, in Southwell Collegiate Church, who let it on renewable lease for the term of three lives. William Marshall Esq. is lord of the manor, and principal owner and impropriator. A court is held annually about Easter.
It was anciently called Crophill Bishop, from the round hill on the north side of the village, and from its being included in Doomsday Book, amongst the manors of the Archbishop of York, though it was afterwards given to Southwell Church and Lenton priory. Part of the wastes were enclosed in 1788, together with Cropwell Butler, each having a right in Persefield, and the remainder in 1803, when allotments were awarded in lieu of all the tithes."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe-on-Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• In a November, 1883, re-organization, the parish was re-assigned to the Bingham sub-district of 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 St. Giles.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe-on-Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• In a November, 1883, re-organization, the parish was re-assigned to the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Directories

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6835.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in the county of Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• In April, 1935, this parish gave up 36 acres transfered to Cropwell Butler Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Population
1801	307
1851	640
1871	616
1881	636
1901	517

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