Nottinghamshire

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Kilvington

"Kilvington, 7½ miles south of Newark, is a hamlet and parish comprised in three farms, with only 27 inhabitants, and 480 acres of land, of which 142 were allotted for the tithes at the enclosure in 1750. The duke of Portland is the principal owner and lord of the manor.
The Rev. John Gorden is the incumbent of the rectory, which is valued in the King's books at £6 12s 1d, and was consolidated with the Staunton rectory in 1826, when the church was so dilapidated, and the chancel a roofless ruin, that seat room was provided for the inhabitants in the neighbouring church at Staunton. The church was rebuilt in 1852, on the old site, at the sole expense of the present owner. The farmers are Thomas Allen, grazier, William Marshall and William Wilson."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Note: There is a South Kilvington parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire

Census

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

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Church History

• 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 1862.
  
  
• There are two photographs of the church at the Old Notts website.
  
  
• Services are held at the church about once a month.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1541.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

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:

• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road east out of Nottingham and pass thru Bongham. At Elton, turn left (north) and at Orston bear to the right and go through Alverton to get to Kilvington village.
  
  

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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 8043.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Names, Geographical

• 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].
  
  

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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 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.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• 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, Utha, has the Parish Chest records for 1782-1862 on microfilm.
  
  

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Population

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

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Schools

• The webpage author could find no record of a school in this parish.
  
  

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