Shelford
"Shelford Parish consists of two townships, viz. Shelford-with-Newton and
Saxondale, which maintain their poor separately, and contain together 775
inhabitants, and 3,592 acres of land, lying on the south side of the Trent,
betwixt Radcliffe and East Bridgford, and is of the rateable value of £6,562
14s 3d.
Shelford, 6½ miles east by north of Nottingham, is a pleasant village, seated
on a gentle eminence, which in very great floods is sometimes completely
surrounded by the Trent water, as was the case in 1793, though it is distant
half a mile from the regular channel of the river, and is backed by a lofty
ridge of land to the south.
After the Conquest, it was nearly all of the fee of Goisfred de Halselin, whose
descendant, Ralph, founded an Austin Priory here in the reign of Stephen which,
at its dissolution in the 29th of Henry VIII, was valued at £116 1s 1d per
annum, and was granted to Michael Stanhope Esq., ancestor of the Earl of
Chesterfield, who is now sole owner (except half an acre) and lord of the manor
of Shelford, which comprises about 2,500 acres. The ancient manor house, which
was long occupied by the Stanhope family, was burnt down in the civil wars,
when the Parliamentarians took it by storm, after it had long held out for the
king, under the command of Colonel Stanhope (son of the first Earl of
Chesterfield) who was slain in the conflict. Some years after this, the family
rebuilt it partly out of its ruins, and it is now occupied by John Hassall Esq."
[White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853]
- The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2486 |
- The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The national grid reference is SK 6642.
- You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The parish was in the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
| Year |
Shelford with Newton |
Saxondale |
| 1801 |
418 |
68 |
| 1851 |
645 |
130 |
| 1901 |
386 |
90 |
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