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"Sneinton Parish forms a populous eastern suburb of Nottingham, and has partaken so largely of the prosperity of that town, that since the year 1801 its population has increased more than twelve fold, so that it now amounts to 8,440 souls in 1851, living in the hamlets of Old Sneinton, Middle Sneinton, Element Hill and The Hermitage. Most of this augmentation has taken place during the last thirty years, and it now contains 1,728 houses, of which 37 were building and 9 were uninhabited. They now form many handsome streets, extending on the Southwell and Carlton Roads, to the eastern limits of Nottingham, though the old village is more than a mile east of the Market place. The parish contains 843 acres of rich, strong, clay land.
Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, and owns about two-thirds of the parish. It was originally crown land, but King John granted it to William de Brimere, from whom it went, in the reign of Edward I, to Tibetot, and was held of him at the same time by Robert Pierrepont, by the service of a pair of gloves or one penny. It has continued ever since in the Pierrepont family, who gave the common, near St Ann's Well, to the parishioners. The ancient name was Snottington or Nottington; Laird says it is rather curious, that all the learned investigations of the origin of Nottingham, should have overlooked a particular circumstance, which seems to throw a new light upon its state, in the Saxon times, and perhaps for some ages previous to them."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

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Archives & Libraries

  • The library was established here in 1841.
     
  • The new library is on Sneinton Dale in the Dales Centre.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Carlton Road Library on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2009.

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

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Census

  • The parish was in the Sneinton sub-district of the Radford Registration District.
     
  • In July, 1880, the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South East sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1841H.O. 107 / 867
1851H.O. 107 / 2130
1861R.G. 9 / 2451 & 2452
1871R.G. 10 / 3504 & 3505
1891R.G. 12 / 2704 thru 2706
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Stephen.
     
  • The present church was constructed in 1838-39 in the Early English Style on the site of the old one.
     
  • The church was built in the form of a cross with a central tower.
     
  • The new church was consecrated on 26 September, 1839.
     
  • The church seats 600.
     
  • The church was rebuilt in 1912.
     
  • The church is now Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a building of historical interest.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Stephen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007.
     
  • Andrew ABBOTT has a close-up of St. Stephen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
     
  • John SUTTON has a photograph of St Stephen's tower on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
     
  • Saint Matthias Church, on St. Matthias road, was originally a Chapel of Ease to St. Stephen's. It opened in May, 1868. It sat vacant in 1904 and closed in 2003.
     
  • St. Matthias Church could seat 550.
     
  • The Southwekk and Nottingham Church History project tells us: "As a result of enemy action in 1941 the church was badly damaged; the sacristy was destroyed, the apsidal wall was badly cracked, the organ was damaged and many windows broken. The church was saved by the Vicar (the Revd F. L. F. Rees), a part-time air warden. Armed with a stirrup pump, he dashed to the scene and saw an incendiary bomb blazing away in the roof. He waited for the bomb to burn its way through and fall into the nave. He then doused the flames with the pump."
     
  • Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of St. Matthias' Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
     
  • St. Clement's Church, a mission church to St. Mattias, was built in 1887-88 and could seat 200.
     
  • Saint Alban's Church, on Bond Street, was an Anglican church built in 1886-87 to seat 565 people, It was built to serve a new ecclesiastical parish carved from St. Stephen's and St. Matthias. It was declared redundant in 2003 and sold.
     
  • Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of St. Alban's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
     
  • There is a Saint Christopher church in Sneinton, but the web page author has found no historic information on it.
     
  • Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of St. Christopher's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1650 and is in good condition.
     
  • Saint Matthias' parish register dates from 1868.
     
  • The Anglican churches were in the No. 2 deanery of Nottingham.
     
  • St. Stephen is now in the Nottingham South deanery.
     
  • The Albion Congegational Chapel was erected in Sneinton Road in 1856 and could seat 850.
     
  • The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1825. The United Free Methodists also had a chapel here prior to 1904.
     
  • Saint Cyprian church is a Catholic church in Sneinton.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Ukrainian Catholic Church on Bond Street on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
     
  • John SUTTON has a photograph of the Jamia Masjid Sultania mosque on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
     
  • William BOOTH. the founder of the Salvation Army, was born here in 1829.
     
  • John SUTTON has a photograph of the William BOOTH statue on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
     
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Civil Registration

  • The parish was in the Sneinton sub-district of the Radford Registration District.
     
  • In July, 1880, the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South East sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
     
  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
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Description & Travel

Although once a small and independent village and parish, Sneinton has become an eastern suburb of Nottingham city. The parish covered 843 acres and includes the hamlets of Old Sneinton, New Sneinton, Middle Sneinton, Element Hill and the Hermitage.

Sneinton Villa is situated on the Carlton road about a quarter mile north-east of Old Sneinton. Sneinton Hermitage is a large perpendicular rock, rising on the east of Nottingham, overlooking the Trent River. It has many ancient caves carved out of the solid rock.

Many historians think this is the heart and source of Nottingham city, since it's ancient name was Snottengaton, but since it is now a part of that city, it is a moot point.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the modern Market Place and Victoria Leisure Centre on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017. This place is right up against the border with old Nottingham city.

You can see pictures of Sneinton which are provided by:

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Gazetteers

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History

  • The village feast is held on the first Sunday in August.
     
  • Typhoid fever swept the parish in 1801.
     
  • A large part of the population in the 1800s were employed in frame-work knitting.
     
  • In 1811 the Luddites swept through the Nottingham area, destroying many stocking and lace machines. Their activities continued until 1816.
     
  • The population of this parish mushroomed between 1801 and 1851 as this little village was turned into a vast housing estate.
     
  • William CAMPION came to Sneinton around 1855 and opened a sewing machine factory.
  • Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Hindu Community Centre on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
     
  • If you get a chance, visit Green's Mill. Alex FOSTER has a photograph of Green's Mill on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2005.
     
  • Nigel THOMPSON has a photograph of Green's Windmill under renovation on Geo-graph, taken in February, 1982.
     
  • Sneinton also has its own Dragon as shown on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2008.
     
  • David LALLY has a photograph of The Queen Adelade.Pub.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a rainbow over the White Lion Pub on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2017.
     
  • Sneinton has, like many cities and towns in the Kingdom, "buried" some of its small becks and streams. Noel JENKINS has a photograph of Beck Burn in its tunnel under Sneinton on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK584397 (Lat/Lon: 52.95151, -1.132229), Sneinton which are provided by:

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Medical Records

  • The parish was home to the "County and Borough Lunatic Asylum" on the Carlton Road, opened in 1812. It is unknown what records may have survived. They were not required to archive these records, but a check with the Notts Archives office may be in order. Typically administrative and accounting documents are archived. In 1853 it was converted to a "pauper asylum" only.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the gate post for The General Lunatic Asylum on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
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Military History

  • A three-part memorial is on the north wall of St. George's Chapel in the parish church. It lists 200 men who died in World War I.
     
  • The Imperial War Museum has a page about the Oliver Hind Youth Club's wall memorial.
     
  • Another memorial stands in the churchyard. It is a "Calvary" on a two step base. This memorial was unveiled in May, 1920.
     
  • Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Calvary (War Memorial) in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
     
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Military Records

You can review the names on the war memorial at the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project.

There were 450 men in the Old Boys Brigade (2nd Nottingham Brigade) of WWI. The men who died are memorialized at The Oliver Hind Youth Club of Edale Road. These are the names on the plaque at that club:

  1. Anderson, E.
  2. Baker, C.
  3. Burton, W. A.
  4. Carter, E.
  5. Christmas, C.
  6. Clark, E.
  7. Clark, S. E.
  8. Clarke, R.
  9. Colgrave, C.
  10. Cook, G.
  11. Cooke, W. G.
  12. Cumberpatch, Arthur
  13. Daniels, F.
  14. Elliott, A. G.
  15. Else, G. W.
  16. Frost, H.
  17. Gent, A.
  18. George, J.
  19. Greenberry, E.
  20. Guy, N. G.
  21. Hallam, M.
  22. Hallam, W.
  23. Hamilton, R. W.
  24. Hammond, H. C.
  25. Hampson, H.
  26. Hardy, R.
  27. Harrison, A.
  28. Higgs, G. M.
  29. Hill, G.
  30. Hind, Jesse F. M.
  31. Hind, Lawrence A.
  32. Hind, Oliver A.
  33. Hodges, H.
  34. Hodson, G.
  35. Hudson, F.
  36. Hurt, H.
  37. Hutchinson, P.
  38. Ickes, H.
  39. Keward, A.
  40. King, E.
  41. Lee, H.
  42. Mantle, A. F.
  43. Marriott, J. W.
  44. Marshall, W.
  45. McGreavy, B.
  46. McGreavy, J.
  47. Mitchell, A.
  48. Murfet, H.
  49. Murphy, W.
  50. Musson, J.
  51. Newman, C. W.
  52. Parker, W. J.
  53. Parkes, H.
  54. Parkes, P.
  55. Prior, G.
  56. Roberts, W. J.
  57. Robinson, F.
  58. Russell, H.
  59. Russell-horace
  60. Sanders, J. H.
  61. Savidge, W. L.
  62. Sharpe, G.
  63. Shepherd, A.
  64. Smith, O.
  65. Smith, P.
  66. Snowden, A.
  67. Soles, W.
  68. Spencer, G.
  69. Spinks, J.
  70. Stones, S.
  71. Swain, Arthur
  72. Tomlinson, Frank
  73. Whitehead, W.
  74. Williams, G.
  75. Wilson, A. E.

These are the names recorded on St. Stephen's Triptich:

  1. Ernest Allen
  2. Harry Asker
  3. Herbert Ault
  4. William Baker
  5. John Bales
  6. John Barker
  7. James Barrie
  8. Arthur William Barton
  9. Charles Barton
  10. William Sydney Baxter
  11. Francis William Baxter
  12. Wilfred Arthur Beal
  13. Edward Gerald Beal
  14. Walter Beastall
  15. Arthur Bentley
  16. William Bentley
  17. Charles Bentley
  18. Patrick Bentley
  19. Harry Bishop
  20. H. Bishop
  21. George Bradley Blankley
  22. Walter Booth
  23. John William Bradshaw
  24. Ernest William Brotherhood
  25. Arthur Gerald Brotherhood
  26. Joseph Brown
  27. Edward Brown
  28. Frederick Brown
  29. Allan Camm
  30. George Carter
  31. Archibald Bertie Chamberlain
  32. Ernest Albert Charles
  33. William Herbert Cheesman
  34. Arthur Clamp
  35. John Robert Clark
  36. Richard Clarke
  37. Samuel Edward Clark
  38. Sydney William Clifton
  39. William Comery
  40. William Cooper
  41. Ernest Cooper
  42. Richard Rawson Cooper
  43. Arthur Gilbert Cope
  44. Horace Arthur Cottam
  45. Herbert Coulby
  46. Elijah Henry Crackle
  47. Frank Ewart Cresswell
  48. John Edwin Cripwell
  49. Francis (Frank) Charles Culley
  50. Arthur Edward Cumberpatch
  51. William Herbert Dallay
  52. Charles Davis
  53. Alfred William Denham
  54. James Diggle
  55. John Donavan
  56. Sydney Dore
  57. Reginald Dowell
  58. Ernest Dowell
  59. John Henry Dring
  60. Frank Edwards
  61. William Charles Ellis
  62. George William Else
  63. Ernest George Elston
  64. Arthur Ford
  65. George Harold Fozzard
  66. Alfred Claude Gant
  67. William Green
  68. Walter Gregory
  69. George Robinson Gunn
  70. Robert William Hamilton
  71. William Christopher Hardy
  72. Herbert Edward Harris
  73. Leonard Harris
  74. Frederick Harrison
  75. John Henry (Harry) Hayes
  76. Frederick William Heggs
  77. John Frederick Herod
  78. George Hibbert
  79. Henry Hibbert
  80. W. Hinch
  81. Arthur Holbrook
  82. Harry Holmes
  83. Harold Walter Horton
  84. William John Hudson
  85. Ernest Henry Hunt
  86. Harold Jerram
  87. Joseph Jones
  88. Thomas Keetley
  89. George William Keetley
  90. Peter Kenny
  91. Horace Arthur Key
  92. John Henry Kiddier
  93. Frederick Kilbourne
  94. Charles Ernest King
  95. Frederick Charles Knowles
  96. Joseph Tacey (on Memorial as Lacey)
  97. Herbert Edwin Lake
  98. James Larratt Stanley
  99. Samuel Richmond Lawrence
  100. Albert Ley
  101. George Lockwood
  102. Claude Herbert Bertram James Mackintosh
  103. Thomas Mallet
  104. Henry Maltby
  105. Charlie Marcer
  106. George Marshall
  107. Herbert Marshall
  108. Harry Marshall
  109. Harry Marshall
  110. Robert Marshall
  111. Robert Marshall
  112. Fred Martin
  113. Herbert Martin
  114. Joseph Edgar Mason
  115. Robert Frederick Meats
  116. George Mees
  117. Samuel Messom
  118. Arthur Mitchell
  119. Arthur Mitchell
  120. Frederick Morley
  121. John William Morrell
  122. Andrew Mosley
  123. John Munns
  124. John Alfred Nathan
  125. John Henry Notman
  126. Archibald Parker
  127. William Henry Petcher
  128. George Henry Peters
  129. John Basil Pierce
  130. Frederick Thomas Potts
  131. James Potts
  132. Ralph Potts
  133. William Edward Potts
  134. Francis Norton Pratt
  135. Neville Herbert Pratt
  136. Frederick Price
  137. Thomas Quinn
  138. William Rainbow
  139. Robert Henry Reynolds
  140. George Richardson
  141. Arthur Carver Riley
  142. Bertie Rose
  143. Henry Samples
  144. James Richard Sands
  145. John William Searson
  146. Harold William Searson
  147. Edgar Selby
  148. George Miller Shacklock
  149. Joseph Shaw
  150. Arthur Shepherdson
  151. William Shipley
  152. John Simons
  153. William Howard Simpson
  154. Thomas Richard Skelton
  155. Arthur Smith
  156. James Smith
  157. Leonard Oswald Smith
  158. Thomas Smith
  159. William Smith
  160. G. Spencer
  161. George Spencer
  162. Herbert Spencer
  163. Jack Squires
  164. Frederick Charles Staley
  165. Walter Stokes
  166. Frank Storey
  167. Edward Stretton
  168. Arthur William Swain
  169. Frederick William Thurman
  170. Oliver Thurman
  171. Frederick William Tipping
  172. Frank Tomlinson
  173. Albert Turton
  174. William Goodfellow Tweddle
  175. Henry Underwood
  176. Percy Viccars
  177. William Wainwright
  178. George Everett Walters
  179. Harold Ward
  180. George Ward
  181. John Ward
  182. Herbert West
  183. Samuel Wheat
  184. Samuel Wheatcroft
  185. William White
  186. Harold Wigley
  187. Arthur Wilson
  188. Ernest Wilson
  189. Frederick Wilson
  190. Harry Wilson
  191. Robert Wilson
  192. Thomas Winterbottom
  193. Arthur Wolfe
  194. Leonard Wilson Wolfe
  195. Arthur Edward Wood
  196. Walter Worthington
  197. William Percy Wray
  198. William Wright
  199. William Cressey Wright
  200. Sidney Yealand

Missing from the above list is: Ernest HIND. Obituary: (6th December 1915 in the Nottingham Evening Post):

On December 3rd, at Jeffrey Hall Hospital, Sunderland, Lance-Cpl. Ernest HIND, 1st Sherwood Foresters, 35, Massey-street, aged 26 years. He did his duty. Funeral Tuesday, [7th December 1915] 1 o'clock, General Cemetery.

Nottinghamshire County Council collected the names of a number of veterans from Nottingham, Sneinton and surrounding parishes and hamlets into what they are calling Sneinton Virtual District. You can see their Roll of Honour for the long list of names.

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Names, Geographical

  • This place in ancient times was called "Snottengaton" and is thought to be the origin of the name "Nottingham".
     
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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient chapelry in county Nottingham.
     
  • This place became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
     
  • The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
     
  • On 26 March, 1897, this Civil Parish was abolished and all the area was amalgamated into Nottingham City.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • In 1771, Elizabeth TEAGE bequeathed £100 and the interest thereof was distributed to the poor each year.
     
  • The Common Land was enclosed here in February, 1797.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Radford Poor Law Union.
     
  • On July 1st, 1880, this parish was re-assigned to the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
     
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Population

 YearInhabitants
1801558
1811953
18211,212
18313,605
18518,440
186111,048
187112,237
188115,473
190123,093
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Schools

  • A National School was built here in 1836. The school moved to a new site in 1968 and is now the Sneinton C of E Primary School.