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Epperstone

"Epperston parish has a pleasant and well built village, in the vale of the Dover Beck, 7 miles south-west of Southwell. It contains 511 inhabitants and 2,343 acres of land, of which 250 acres are in woods. The common was enclosed in 1768, when 254 acres were allotted in lieu of tithes. Thomas Holdsworth Esq. is principal owner and lord of the manor, but Thomas Moore, John Towle, John Litchfield, John, Thomas and William Barnard, and Henry Sherbrooke Esquires also have estates here.
The free school was purchased in 1838 with money raised by subscription, and a grant from the National Society. About 100 children are now taught in the school. Litchfield library was founded in 1839 by John Litchfield Esq. It contains 2,250 volumes, on philosophical and miscellaneous subjects, available to all subscribers of sixpence per quarter, paid in advance. The books were kept at the shoolroom till 1843, when the worthy donor erected a neat building, and vested it, together with the library, in the following trustees, for the use of the parishioners of Epperston, viz: John Litchfield Esq., John Barnard Esq., The Rev. Thomas White, and their successors."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Southwell 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 the Holy Cross.
  
  
• The church tower was added in the 14th century.
  
  
• The church was thouroghly restored in 1853 and re-opened in March, 1854.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Southwell sub-district of the Southwell 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 6548.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has a scale of 2.5 inches to the mile.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the south division of the ancient Thurgaton Wapentake (Hundred) in the north-east division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The poor had the rents from four tenements purchased in 1765 bequeathed by Mary LEAKE.
  
  
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1768.
  
  
• 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	Population
1801	422
1851	511
1861	518
1871	436
1881	435
1891	378
1901	362
1911	380
1921	408
1931	347

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