Nottinghamshire

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Nearby Places

Selston

Census

• The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Basford 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 Helen.
  
  
• The church was built of stone in 1150.
  
  
• The church was restored and enlarged in 1899.
  
  

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Church Records

• The parish register dates from 1560.
  
  
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1557-1875.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
  
  
• The following Non-conformist churches and chapel have existed in the parish: Calvinist, Baptist, Primitive Methodists and Free Church chapels.
  
  

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Civil Registration

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

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Description and Travel

This large village and parish is 143 miles north of London and 12 miles northwest of Nottingham. the parish sits on the Derbyshire border. The parish covers 3,318 acres and includes the hamlets of Bagthorpe, Underwood, Hand Stubbing, Westwood and Woodnook. Jacksdale (or Jack's Dale) is a village in the parish.

Selston is divided from Derbyshire by the Erewash River. If you are planning a visit:

• Selston lies off the M1 motorway north of Nottingham. Turn off at the B6018 arterial crossing.
  
  
• Visit the website for Jacksdale for local colour.
  
  

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Manors

• Wansley Hall, the former seat of the WANDESLEY family, is in Bagthorpe.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 4653. Bagthorpe is at SK 4751. Underwood is at SK 4750. Jacksdale is at SK 4451.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer #271 map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Governance

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• For governance, the parish was in the north division of the ancient Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the Northern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• Three cottages were provided to the poor by the parish.
  
  
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

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Schools

• The National School here was built by the Butterley Iron Company some time before 1869.
  
  

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