Nottinghamshire

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Lindhurst (Lyndhurst)

"Lindhurst-on-the-Forest is situated 2½ miles south-east of Mansfield, and is an extra-parochial liberty of 740 acres, bounded on the north and south by two small streams, which unite at its eastern extremity, and form the Rainwirth-water, near two extensive fox covers. It was anciently part of Harlow Wood, but has been cleared and cultivated by its owner, the Duke of Portland. Mr Richard Godson Millns is the farmer. In a field, about half a mile north-east of the house, a great many ancient tobacco pipes are turned up every time the field is ploughed."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

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

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

Lindhurst is 3.1 miles from Mansfield and 2 miles from Blidworth. The parish covers 896 acres. The webpage author could find no evidence of a village as such, just local farmhouses.

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History

• This Liberty was formerly charged with furnishing oak for the repairs of Nottingham castle.
  
  

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Maps

• The National Grid Reference is SK 5657.
  
  
• 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 Governance

• This place was an extra-parochial area in Nottingham county, but became a modern Civil Parish in December of 1858.
  
  
• This parish is in the Southwell division of the Thurgarton Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
  
  
• This parish was in the Skegby Rural District from 1894 until 1935.
  
  
• This parish was in the Southwell Rural District from 1935 until 1974.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Mansfield petty session hearings.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1801	-
1851	10
1861	11
1871	16
1881	32
1891	33
1901	18
1911	29
1921	40

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