Kilvington

The Library at Bingham is an excellent resource.

• The parish was in the Balderton sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The date of construction is not reported.
   
• The church was in poor condition by 1850 and was rebuilt in 1852 on the old site.
   
• The church was restored in 1897.
   
• Bob DANYLEC has a photograph of Saint Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the east end of Saint Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
   
• Services are held at the church about once a month.
   
• John MELLORS tells us that the parish register reports:

"The Revd John STAUNTON LLD was inducted in to the Rectory of Kilvington by the Revd J MOUNSEY curate of Staunton on 12 Jun 1813 and read in on Sunday 27 June" "Instituted by Dr WYLDE of Nottingham 7 Jun 1813" "The Revd David HOLT rector of Kilvington died 12 May 1913"

• There is no mention of a church here in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• The church was probably first constructed in the 12th century, but there is no direct evidence of a date. We know that the church existed in 1190 when an incumbent was named.
   
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1541.
   
• There were only four baptisms recorded from 1780 through 1800.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery No. 2 of Newark.
   
• The London Family History Centre has the Bishop's Transcripts from 1611 to 1826. These are also in the Nottinghamshire Archives Office.
   
• The National Burial Index has 145 burials at Kilvington from 1727 to 1906.
   
• Phillimore's lists the marriages at Kilvington from 1538 to 1812.
   

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

Kilvington is a very small village and a parish on the south-eastern border of the county adjoining Leicestershire. The parish is 7 miles south of Newark-on-Trent, 7 miles north-east of Bingham and due east of Nottingham city. The parish covers 477 acres and includes the hamlet of Alverton, 1.5 miles south of Hallam village.

If you are planning a visit:

• There are lagoons in the flatlands just west of Kilvington village.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the lagoons on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road east out of Nottingham and pass thru Bingham. At Elton, turn left (north) and at Orston bear to the right and go through Alverton to get to Kilvington village.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of The Alverton village sign on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012. It appears that the village could use your artistic and intuitive skills to produce a more attractive sign.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72*quot;:

" KILVINGTON, a parish in Newark district, Notts; on the river Devon, at the boundary with Lincoln, 2¼ miles N by W of Bottesford r. station, and 7 S of Newark. It includes the hamlet of Alverton; and its posttown is Elton, under Nottingham. Acres, 900. Real property, £639. Pop., 77. Houses, 15. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to H. Staunton, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £245. Patron, John Lambert, Esq. The church is ancient, and was recently restored."

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Kilvington to another place.

The Black Death visited Kilvington in 1349. And there were floods in 1351.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK800429 (Lat/Lon: 52.977488, -0.810013), Kilvington which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The Great War Bulletin for November 16th, 1914 tells us that the following man was selected as Special Constable for Kilvngton for the duration of the war: Alfred DURRANT, gamekeepes.
   
• The Great War Bulletin for November 16th, 1914 tells us that the following man was selected as Special Constable for Alverton for the duration of the war: William BURTON, farmer.
   
• There is no War Memorial recorded in the parish.
   

• The name Kilvington is from the Old English Cylfa+inga+tun, or "estate of Cylfa". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village is given as Chelvinctune.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county but it became a modern Civil Parish in 1866.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred).
   
• Alverton became its own Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The citizens of Kilvington and Alverton have decided not to have a formal Parish Council, but instead hold periodic Parish Meetings. You can contact them concerning civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
   
• For today's district governance, contact the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1750.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   
• The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, has the Parish Chest records for 1782-1862 on microfilm.
   

Year	Kilvington	Alverton
1801	included in Staunton
1811	44	-
1831	45	-
1841	56	-
1851	27	25
1861	37	40
1871	37	7
1881	24	17
1891	49	32
1901	30	23
1911	28	33

• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Old School at Alverton on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• That school has been converted into a residence.