Nottinghamshire

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Nearby Places

Scarrington

"Scarrington, par., township, and vil., Notts, 2 miles NE. of Bingham - par., 2850 ac., pop. 612; township, 910 ac., pop. 208."
[John Bartholomew's "Gazetteer of the British Isles," 1887]

Census

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham 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 John of Beverley.
  
  
• The date of original construction is 1633.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1867.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1693.
  
  
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1609-1854.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery #2 of Bingham.
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chaple here by 1881.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

Scarrington is a village, a township and a parish 119 miles north of London, 3 miles north-east of Bingham and 10 miles south-west of Newark. The parish covers about 910 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road east out of Nottingham or west out of Grantham. Turn north at Whatton and proceed about 2.5 miles. You should intersect the village of Scarrington.
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7341.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• Cassini Historical Maps has some older historical maps to assist you.
  
  
• 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 ancient Bingham Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Population
1861	231
1871	231
1881	208
1891	203
1901	178
1911	184
1921	160
1931	162

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Schools

• A parish school was built here in 1867 for Scarrington and Aslockton parishes.
  
  

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