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Everton

"Everton Parish comprises the two townships of Everton and Scaftworth, the former of which contains about 3,521 acres, and the latter 1,049a3r 34p of land, of the rateable value of £5,500. The whole parish contains a population of 888 souls. The common land in Everton was enclosed in 1760, and in Scaftworth in 1773. The rectorial tithes of the new enclosures in Everton township were commuted for an allotment of 225a 2r 8p given to Lord Charles Cavendish who was then the impropriator. At the same time the vicarial tithes of the whole parish were redeemed by two allotments of 90 acres in Everton, and 15 acres in Scaftworth, besides ten acres of old glebe. The great tithes are still paid on all the old enclosures in the parish, and also on the new enclosures in Scaftworth. William Wells, Esq. of Stockwith, is now the impropriator.
The charities belonging to the parish are £1 6s 8d to the poor of Everton, and 13s 4d to those of Scaftworth, paid out of Stonehills Farm; an annuity of 10s out of an estate belonging to J. Walker Esq., and 5s yearly left by Robert Ducklin in 1721, out of a house belonging to the vicar, for the poor of Everton; and £100, left in 1800 by Elizabeth Ella, who directed half of the interest to be given to poor married lying-in women, and the remainder to be paid for the education of poor girls of Everton, where a school has been built by subscription."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Note: There are places called Everton in Lancashire and Bedfordshire as well as the city of Liverpool.

Census

• The parish was in the Gringley sub-district of the East Retford 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 Trinity.
  
  
• The church was constructed in the 12th century.
  
  
• An Everton Church history tells more about the church's past.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers exist from 1643.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Retford.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1869.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

Everton is a parish containing two townships. The two townships are: Everton-with-Harwell and Scartworth. The parish is 7 mils north of East Retford. The parish covers 3,819 acres, is bounded on the east by the Chesterfield Canal and includes the hamlet of Harwell.

Scaftworth township was 2 miles north-west of Everton village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is on the A631 trunk road, heading east out of Bawtry.
  
  

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Directories

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

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History

• Scaftworth is believed to be an old Roman station on the road between Doncaster and Littleborough.
  
  
• In the 1800s bricks were made here.
  
  
• In the 1800s gravel was mined here.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6991.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance 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 county, and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
  
  
• The parish was also a part of the Southwell and Scrooby Liberty.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• The Common Land was enclosed in Everton township in 1760.
  
  
• The Common Land was enclosed in Scartworth township in 1773.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Everton	Scaftworth
1801	468	112
1851	774	114
1871	677	99
1881	654
1891	637
1901	640	116

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Schools

• There was a National School here by 1869.
  
  

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