Nottinghamshire

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Stanton on the Wolds

"Stanton-on-the-Wolds is a small parish consisting of about 25 scattered dwellings, near to the Melton Mowbray Road, and eight miles south south east of Nottingham. It has 177 inhabitants and 1,300 acres of land, of a sandy wet quality, but has recently been much improved by drainage and superior cultivation. This place was formerly the residence of the Parsons fanily, to whom the greater part of the lordship belonged, and it evidently bears marks of having at some remote period been a more considerable place than at present. The church is a humble edifice, dedicated to All Saints. Throsby says, "it is below description and is of all others, within and without, the most despicable place I have ever beheld"; but since his time, it has been repewed and undergone other repairs. In the chancel are deposited the remains of Sir John Parsons, Bart., who was executed in London for forgery in 1704. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's books at £2 13s 4d, now enjoyed by the Rev. Thomas Smith. Sir R.H. Bromley is the patron. The poor have a house and three acres of land at Gedling. bequeathed in 1718 by the Rev. Thomas Ousley, and now let for £12 a year."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• In November, 1883, the parish was re-assigned to 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 All Saints.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1735.
  
  
• The parish was in the deanery #1 of Bingham (rural deanery of South Bingham).
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• In November, 1883, the parish was re-assigned to the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

Stanton-on-the-Wolds is a village and a small parish 8 miles south-east of Nottingham city and 11 miles north-west of Melton Mowbray. The covers 1,220 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A606 south-east out of Nottingham and just past Keyworth is the village of Stanton-on-the-Wolds.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 6330.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
  
  
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
  
  

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Politics and Government

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
  
  
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Rushcliffe 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	Inhabitants
1801	98
1851	177
1861	158
1881	107
1901	98

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