Nottinghamshire

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Elston Chapel

"Elston Manor forms a separate manor, in which is a chapel of ease annexed to the vicarage of East Stoke. It is a small, ancient structure, having a fine Saxon arched doorway. Sir R.H. Bromley, Bart., is the principal owner and lord of the manor. The ecclesiastical division of this chapelry is undefinable."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Description and Travel

• A 1900 Description of Elston Chapel.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7548.
  
  
• 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 Government

• This place was an ancient chapelry attaqched to East Stoke parish in county Nottingham.
  
  
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• 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	210

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