Darlton

The Library at East Retford will prove useful in your research.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of some chest tombs at St. Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

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

• No church or priest is recorded here in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The date of construction is late 12th century.
   
• The church was rebuilt, except for the tower, in 1863.
   
• The church is a Grade II* structure with English Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of Church of St. Giles on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1568 and is in fair condition.
   
• The London Family History Centre has the Bishop's Transcripts from 1622 to 1836.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here about 1813.
   

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

Darlton is a parish and a village in the northern part of Nottinghamshire. The parish lies 127 miles north of London, 3 miles north-east of Tuxford, 6 miles south-west of the centre of Nottingham city, and 7 miles south-east of East Retford. The parish covered just over 1,500 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from the A1 south out of Blyth, take the A57 east (left) at West Drayton about 5 miles to Darlton.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014. The graphics on this sign look suspiciously like the ones used on the Dunham village sign.
   
• The parish is home to a very active Soaring Club with several different kinds of gliders.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72. described Darlton as:

Darlton, a parish in East Retford district, Notts; on an affluent of the river Trent, 2 miles NE of Tuxford r. station, and 7½ SE of East Retford. Post town, Tuxford, under Newark. Acres, 1,507. Real property, £2,671. Pop., 163. Houses, 39. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Dunham, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

• An account of the village of Darlton and its origins by John H. GILBERT.
   

• Kingshaugh House was a hunting lodge built to serve the eastern Le Clay division of Sherwood Forest. In an 1196 rebellion against King John the site was fortified with earthworks. A new lodge was built in 1211 and abandoned in 1217.
   
• The present Kingshaugh House was built in the late 17th century as a farmhouse, using some stones from the older building.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK774736 (Lat/Lon: 53.253775, -0.841333), Darlton 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.

The War Memorial is a classical white marble monument, on a grey stone backing, mounted on the north wall of the chancel.

There are the 5 names listed on the War MemoriaI plaque:

1. William CREE, pte. 6th Bn Border Regt.
2. Arthur Selby JACKSON, 2nd lt. 9th Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Inf.
3. Harry LOBLEY, gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery
4. John RUSHBY, pte. 1/7th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers
5. Walter WOOD, gunner, 161st Bde Royal Field Artillery

Details on these individuals can be found at the Nottingham War Memorials web site.

The 1086 Domesday Book gives the name of this place as "Derluvetun," meaning ‘tun or farmstead of Deorlaf’. This was most likely the name of the Saxon tribe that had settled here.

• This place was for centuries a Chapelry, but was converted to a Civil Parish, probably around 1838.
   
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• The parish is governed by a joint Parish Council for Dunham on Trent with Ragnall, Fledborough, & Darlton.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here about 1765.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	126
1841	203
1851	185
1861	163
1871	173
1881	150
1891	139
1901	135
1911	125
1921	132
1931	113

• The children of this parish attended school in Dunham parish.