Nottinghamshire

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Nearby Places

Park Leys

"Park Leys, five miles north-west by north of Newark, is an extra-parochial farm of 300 acres, occupied by Mr Eve, and belonging to John Henry Manners Sutton Esq."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

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

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Church History

• The web page author could find no record of a church at Park Leys.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

This parish (and farm) was only 4 miles north-west of Newark on Trent. The parish covered only 310 acres.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The area of the parish is just north of Hockerton on the Knapthorpe road.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7357.
  
  
• 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 Governance

• The place was long an extra-parochial place in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish in 1858.
  
  
• This parish was in the ancient Thurgarton Hundred or Wapentake.
  
  
• The parish was in northern division of the county.
  
  
• On 1 April, 1899, this Civil Parish was abolished and the land amalgamated into Kelham Civil Parish.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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Population

Year	Population
1801	-
1851	20
1871	9
1881	4
1891	8
1901	7

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