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Egmanton

Description in 1871:
"EGMANTON, a parish in Southwell district, Notts; 2½ miles SW of Tuxford r. station, and 5 ENE of Ollerton. It has a post office under Newark. Acres, 2, 220. Real property, £2,283. Pop., 386. Houses, 84. The property is divided among a few. The manor was given by Henry I. to Nigel d'Albini. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £148. Patron, the Duke of Norfolk. The church is tolerable; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £14."
John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]

Census

• The parish was in the Kneesall 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 Mary.
  
  
• In 1881 the church was in a very dilapidated state.
  
  
• In the churchyard stands a very ancient sundial.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1653.
  
  
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1813-1838.
  
  
• The names of each married couple from about 1734 are inscribed in the church belfry.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1578 for baptisms, 1605 for marriages and 1617 for burials.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1836.
  
  
• The Primitive Methodists also built a chapel here in 1841.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel.

This village and parish are 137 miles north of London and 1 mile south of Tuxford. The parish covers 2,220 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A6075 arterial road northeast out of Mansfield and drive thrugh Ollerton. At Kirton turn right at the signs for Egmanton.
  
  

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History

• The village held an annual feast on the Sunday closest to Old Michaelmas day.
  
  

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Manors

• Egmanton Hall stood about a half mile west of the church.
  
  
• The Manor House was occupied by a farmer, Francis GALE, in 1881.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7368.
  
  
• 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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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the South Clay deivision of the ancient Bassetlaw Hundred (Wapentake) in the northern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1821.
  
  
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1861	386
1871	281
1881	235
1891	231
1901	241
1911	227
1921	244
1931	244
1951	198

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Schools

• For several centuries the only school for poor children was the Sunady School held in the church.
  
  

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