Screveton
"SCREVETON, a parish, with a village, in Bingham district, Notts; 2¾ miles N by W of Aslockton
r. station, and 3½ N E of Bingham. Post-town, Bingham, under Nottingham. Acres, 1, 150. Real
property, £2, 646. Pop., 241. Houses, 60. The manor belongs to Earl Manvers and T. B. T.
Hildyard, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £252. Patron,
T. D. Hall, Esq. The church is good, and has a Norman tower. There are chapels for Wesleyans
and Primitive Methodists. Dr. Thoroton, the antiquary, was a native."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
- The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2483 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2717 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wilfrid (One source gives Saint Winifred).
- The date of original construction is not recorded, but most construction was completed in the 14th century. There is evidence that an earlier church stood on the site.
- The church was restored circa 1883.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1650.
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the
period 1630-1843.
- The church was in the rural deanery #2 of Bingham.
- The Primitive Methodists had a small chapel here before 1853.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1869.
- The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Screveton is a village and a parish 120 miles north of London, 4 miles north-east of Bingham and 13 miles north-east of Nottingham city. The parish covers about 1110 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 onto the Foss Way (A46 trunk road) and proceed about 4 miles. The village of Screveton will be on your right.
- The national grid reference is SK 7343.
- 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.
- 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 northern division of the
county.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1776.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Population |
| 1861 |
241 |
| 1871 |
219 |
| 1881 |
179 |
| 1891 |
172 |
| 1901 |
159 |
| 1911 |
163 |
| 1921 |
140 |
| 1931 |
103 |
- A school existed here in 1869 for both sexes.
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[Last updated: 28-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
