Greasley
"Greasley Parish is very extensive, and consists of the six hamlets and
constablewicks of Brinsley, Kimberley, Moor Green, Newthorpe, Watnall Cantelupe
and Watnall Chaworth, which maintain their poor conjointly, but their roads
separately. The contain 5,284 inhabitants and 8,010 of enclosed land, of the
rateable value of £9,130.
Greasley, commonly called Greasley Moor Green, from it being included in that
constablewick, is situated 7 miles north-west by north of Nottingham. It is a
small but pleasant village containing about 360 inhabitants. Lord Melbourne is
the principal owner and lord of the manor, but Thomas Grammer, Mrs Marshall and
the Misses Grammer also have estates here.
The church is a spacious edifice, with a handsome and lofty embattled tower,
and four good bells. The Rev. John Hides M.A. now enjoys the vicarage, which is
valued in the King's books at £8 5s, now £134, and has had several
augmentations from Queen Anne's Bounty. Lord Melbourne is the patron and
impropriator. The Independents have a commodious chapel in the village."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
- The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2532 |
| 1871 |
R.G. 10 / 3477 |
| 1881 |
R.G. 11 / 3322 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2659 through 2661 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
- The church chancel was built in the 13th century and is the oldest part of the church.
- The church seats 801 people.
- The townships of Kimberley and Brinsley formed their own ecclesiastical districts, each with a separate church and parsonage.
- The Anglican parish register dates from May, 1600. for baptisms and burials and from April, 1660, for marriages. These early records are often undecipherable and are in poor condition. The period from 1710 to 1730 is missing altogether.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
- The Primitive Methodists, the Baptists and the Reformers each had a chapel in Newthorpe before 1881.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel in Watnall before 1881.
- The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Greasley is both a township and a parish. The parish contains the hamlets of; Moor Green, Brinsley, Kimberley, Newthorpe, Watnall Chaworth and Watnall Cantelupe. The parish lies 137 miles north of London and 7 miles north-west of Nottingham. The parish covers just under 5,200 acres.
Moor Green is a hamlet 2.5 miles from Langley Mill station. It was formerly called "Greasley Moor Green", partly because the parish church was located here.
Newthorpe is a hamlet on the Erewash River. It is 1 mile south-west of Greasley church.
Watnall Chaworth and Watnall Cantelupe form one village in the parish.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the M1 motorway to the A610 trunk road at roundabout 26 and turn west. At the second roundabout, just past Eastwood, turn north. You should be on the A608. Turn right on to Nottingham Road and folow that down into Greasley.
- Alternatively, by automobile, you can take the A6008 from the heart of Nottingham and follow it northwest to Greasley. You will have to turn on to the Derby Road (A610) for the last part of your journey.
- Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the copuntryside near Greasley on Geo-graph, taken in 2009.
- Get familiar with the parish at the Greasley parish website set up by Sarah SEATON.
- The national grid reference is SK 4947.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
The Greasley War Memorial is inside St. Mary's church and is described (and the names listed) at Southwell Churches site.
- This place was an ancient parish of county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
- On 9 October, 1877, this parish gave up the Hempshill area to Nuthall Civil Parish in return for two parts, Giltbrook and Gilthill, which it received. This reduced Greasley Civil Parish by about 790 acres.
- On 1 April, 1896, this parish was reduced in size to help create the Brinsley Civil Parish and the Kimberley Civil Parish.
- On 1 April, 1935, this parish was reduced by 226 acres to enlarge Eastwood Civil Parish.
Note: The parish was greatly reduced in size in 1896 and 1935.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1801 |
2,968 |
| 1851 |
5,284 |
| 1861 |
6,280 |
| 1871 |
7,113 |
| 1881 |
8,867 |
| 1891 |
11,143 |
| 1901 |
5,694 |
| 1911 |
5,970 |
| 1921 |
6,279 |
- An endowed School was built at Newthorpe in 1878 to hold 400 children and 150 infants.
- A Board School was built at Watnall in 1752 by Lancelot ROLLESTON.
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[Last updated: 17-November-2012 - Louis R. Mills]
