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Saundby

"Saundby is but a small village, pleasantly situated on an eminence overlooking the Trent, 3 miles south-west by west of Gainsborough, and 7/12 miles north-east of Retford. The parish, which extends to the Trent, contains 107 inhabitants and 1,330 acres of rich enclosed land, all of which belongs to Lord Middleton, the lord of the manor, except a small quantity of glebe, and 28 acres belonging to the poor of Gainsborough. At the Domesday Survey, the whole was of the Archbishop of York's soke of Laneham, except one garden, which a villein held of the soke of Mansfield, by the service of finding "salt for the King's fish in Bigrodie". The church, which has evidently been a much larger edifice, is dedicated to St Martin. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's books at £14 8s 6d, now £101, and is in the gift of Lord Middleton, and incumbency of the Rev. Charles Walter Hudson. The rectory house is a handsome mansion, built in 1831.
Trent Port, on the west bank of the Trent, opposite to Gainsborough, contains a good inn, two large ship yards, an oil mill, and several wharfs, warehouses &c., which belong to Lord Middleton."
[White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853]

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 St. Martin of Tours.
  
  
• The church was built before 1504, because that is the year when the tower was added.
  
  
• For photographs of the inside of St. Martin Church, see those taken by Allan Barton on Flickr.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1568 but is missing entries from 1600 through 1662.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of 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

Saundby is a small village and a parish 148 miles north of London, 7 miles north-east of East Retford and 3 miles south-wet of Gainsborough (in Lincolnshire). The River Trent provides the eastern border of the parish. In the 1800s, much of the parish was grazing land.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A620 arterial road north out of Retford. This road runs right through the village.
  
  
• Alternatively, take the A631 arterial west out of Gainsborough, turn south at the A620 interchange and you'll be in Saundby before you can get up to the speed of traffic.
  
  
• For photographs of the parish, see those taken by Barbara Whiteman on Pictures of England.
  
  

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History

• In the 1800s the parish had a small ship-yard, wharves and an oilmill on the River Trent just opposit Gainsborough.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7888.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale, or the Landranger #112 which covers this section of the Trent valley.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in the county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

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

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Population

Year	Population
1801	100
1841	107
1851	88
1861	86
1871	98
1881	113
1891	126
1901	103
1911	101
1921	98
1931	101

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