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Misterton

"Misterton Parish is situated at the north-east angle of the county, where the River Idle and the Chesterfield Canal terminate in the Trent. It contains 1,743 inhabitants and 4,746 acres of land, of which about 636 acres are in West Stockwith township, and 654 inhabitants, which maintains its poor separately from misterton. A great part of it was formerly a swampy bog, but it is now drained and improved. In the higher parts of the parish are found both foliated and fibrous gypsum or plaster, used both for floors and ornamental work.
Misterton is a large village on the north side of the Chesterfield Canal, where there are several wharfs, within one mile of the Trent, five miles north-north-west of Gainsborough, and nine miles east of Bawtry. Its township, in which there are the farms of Cornley, Fountain Hill, Grovewood and Haxey Gate (a public house) contains about 1,100 inhabitants and 4,109a 3r of land, at the rateable value of £4,745 6s.
The church is a large ancient structure dedicated to All Saints, with a nave, chancel and side aisles."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Cemeteries

• A Cemetery was opened in 1870 next to the churchyard and was placed under the management of the Misterton Council Burial Board.
  
  

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Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to All Saints.
  
  
• The church was partly rebuilt in 1848.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1540 and are in good condition.
  
  
• The parish was in the rural deanery Retford.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Misterton sub-district in the Gainsborough Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Misterton is a village, a township and a parish on the Chesterfield Canal in Nottinghamshire, on the border with Lincolnshire. The parish is 5 north-west of Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) and 150 miles north of the city of London. The parish also contains the township of West Stockwith.

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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 7694.
  
  
• 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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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the Bassetlaw Wapentake (or Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
  
  
• West Stockwith township was created as a separate Civil Parish in December, 1866.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• As a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, the parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Misterton	West Stockwith
1801	612	530
1851	1,089	654
1871	1,132	608
1901	1,433	667

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Schools

• A School Board was formed here in 1871.
  
  
• A Board School was built in 1871.
  
  

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