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"Stapleford is a large pleasant village and parish situated on the Erewash, near the Derby Road, six miles south by west of Nottingham. The parish contains 1,059 acres of land, and its population has increased since the year 1801, from 748 to 1,968 souls. The principal owners are John Jackson Esq., Hon. William Vernon, a minor, second son of Lord Vernon, J.S. Sherwin Esq., and T.D. Hall Esq.; the former of whom is lord of the manor, and patron of the perpetual curacy. The Rev. W.R. Almond M.A. is the incumbent.
The church is a neat edifice, dedicated to St Helen, with a small tower, a spire and three bells, and was repaired in 1785 and 1819. It contains some ancient monuments worthy of inspection, also several of a modern date, one of which is to the memory of George John Borlase Warren, eldest son of Admiral Sir J.B. Warren. He lost his life in the battle of Aboukir, in Egypt, March 8th 1801, aged 19. A handsome tomb was erected to the memory of Capt. Wm. Sleigh in 1842. In 1836 a large National School was built and endowed by Lady Caroline Warren at a cost of £3,000. It is situated on a commanding eminence near the east end of the village, and is a handsome structure in the Elizabethan style, 100 feet long and 25 wide. A portion of the building is occupied as an infant school. The Artisans' Library, established in 1837, has about 514 volumes. The Wesleyan, Kilhamite, Primitive Methodists and Particular Baptists, have each a chapel in the village. The feast is on the Sunday before Old St Luke's, or on that day when it falls on a Sunday. The Midland Railway Company's branch of the Erewash Valley Line runs past the village, and has a station here."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

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Warning:; There are at least four other Staplefords in England, and even one in Australia. Make sure that you are researching in the correct one.

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Archives & Libraries

The Artisans' Library, established in 1837, had about 514 volumes.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the new Stapleford Library, built in the 1980s, on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.

The Library is generally open 5 days per week and includes a Local History section to assist you with your search.

The Library at Nottingham will also prove useful in your research.

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Cemeteries

  • The Stapleford Cemetery, set aside in 1878 and opened in 1881, is on the Nottingham road (Now Cemetery Road) and covers about 4 acres. It was managed by a Parish Council Burial Board.
     
  • The Cemetery Chapel was gifted to the people of Stapleford in 1880 by Mr. Joseph FEARFIELD. The Cemetery Bell was cast in 1885 and has recently been refurbished and put aback into use.
     
  • Graham HOGG has a photogaph of the gateway to Stapleford Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2018.
     
  • Stephen McKAY has a photograph taken inside the Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the churchyard gates on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.
     
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Census

  • The parish was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1841H.O. 107 / 861
1851H.O. 107 / 2141
1861R.G. 9 / 2477
1871R.G. 10 / 3540
1891R.G. 12 / 2712
1901R.G. 13 / 3211
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen nd is built in the Early English style.
     
  • The church was consecrated around 1220.
     
  • It is believed that an older, smaller church existed on the same spot during the time of Edward the Confessor.
     
  • The church spire has twice been shattered by lightning.
     
  • In the 15th Century the church was thoroughly restored and a clerestory added.
     
  • The church was repaired and modernised in 1785 and 1819. A porch was added in 1785.
     
  • In 1878 extensive repairs and alterations were performed.
     
  • The church is Grade II listed with British Heritage.
     
  • The church seats 400.
     
  • Jeff TOMLINSON has a photograph of the Anglo Saxon Cross in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2003.
     
  • David KELLY has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish register dates from 1655 and is in very good condition.
     
  • The church was in the rural deanery of Bulwell.
     
  • The Anglican Church has a memorial to Thomas WHITELEY.
     
  • There is also a memorial to Gervais TAVEREY and his wife who died in 1639.
     
  • The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here in 1782. Ian S. has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
     
  • Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2020.
     
  • The Particular Baptists also had a chapel here built in 1875 replacing an earlier chapel.
     
  • The Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Evangelist was built in 1951. Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the RC Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2018.

     

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Civil Registration

  • The parish was in the Stapleford sub-district of the Shardlow Registration District.
     
  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
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Description & Travel

Stapleford is a parish, a village and the head of a civil sub-district. The parish is in the southern division of Nottinghamshire. It lies 127 miles north of London, and 6 miles south-west of the centre of Nottingham city. The parish covered 1,253 acres.

The village stands near the Erewash River. If you are planning a visit:

  • By automobile, from Tuxford (which is on the A1), take the B1164 south to Weston.
     
  • Christine JOHNSTONE has a photograph of the Footbridge from Sandiacre to Stapleford on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2010. The approach to this bridge can be very muddy.
     
You can see pictures of Stapleford which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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Genealogy

The future Admiral John Borlase WARREN was born here in September 1753. In 1771 he entered the navy as an able seaman. He became an admiral in 1810. He died on 27 February 1822.

Arthur Henry MEE, the writer, journalist and educator, and author of "The King's England" was born in Stapleford in 1875.

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History

  • Stapleford is home to the Hemlock Stone on Stapleford Hill. It is approximately 200 million years old, dating to the Triassic Period.
     
  • Stapleford was a Roman settlement.
     
  • Coal and Ironstone were mined in this parish.
     
  • The village was known for its lacework in the 1800s when the stocking hose trade thrived in the Midlands.
     
  • The village feast was held on the Sunday before Old Saint Luke's day (18 October).
     
  • The Jaguar pub in Hickings Lane in Stapleford closed in 2014.
     
  • Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Magpie Inn on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007. This is a relatively new establishment..
     
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Manors

  • Stapleford Hall was built by Admiral Sir John Borlase WARREN in 1797,
     
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK491374 (Lat/Lon: 52.931694, -1.270792), Stapleford which are provided by:

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Military History

  • There is a monument in the church to the only son of Admiral Sir John Borlase WARREN, baronet, who was killed at the Battle of Aboukir, 1 Aug. 1798. This battle is also known as Horatio Nelson's Battle of the Nile.
     
  • The War Memorial for the First World War is in the Memorial Chapel. It carries 188 names.
     
  • The Rose Garden in Walter Parker VC Memorial Square on the Derby Road is the War Memorial for the parish.
     
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Military Records

Ian S. has a photograph of the Memorial Plaque to Lance Corporal Walter Richard PARKER who won the VC for bravery in World War One. The photograph was taken in July, 2016.

The names on St. Helen's War Memorial plaque. dedicated in 1924, can be found at the Nottinghamshire War Memorial site.

The Great War Bulletin for December 6th, 1915, reveals that 21-year-old Lieutenant George CAMPBELL had left England to join his unit overseas: He was in the armoured motor car section of the Royal Marine Artillery, which was in charge of the quick-firing guns.

These are the names from the church War Memorial:

  1. Arthur Edward Alldridge
  2. Ernest Annable
  3. George Armstrong
  4. Edward Henry Arnold
  5. George Frederick Atkin
  6. J. Atkin
  7. Clarence Henry Austin
  8. Horace Charles Ball
  9. Joseph Arthur Barber
  10. Joseph Bardill
  11. John Barker
  12. Wilfred Henry Barksby
  13. George Edwin Barrowcliff
  14. Alfred Barson
  15. Ernest Barson
  16. Neville Barson
  17. Frederick Joseph Beale
  18. Albert E. Blackler
  19. Clarence Bowley
  20. Joseph William Bowmer
  21. Cyril G. Brian
  22. David Brigg
  23. Harold Joseph Briggs
  24. Edward Brookes
  25. Fred Brown
  26. John Brown
  27. James William Brown
  28. Reginald Brown
  29. Walter James Brudenell
  30. Frederick Edward Bullock
  31. Edward Thomas Bunce
  32. John Burns
  33. Herbert Burrows
  34. Thomas Henry Burton
  35. William Henry Burton
  36. Alfred Bush
  37. Herbert Edmund Carlin
  38. Stephen Carlin
  39. Arthur Henry Cavey
  40. Harold S. Chamberlin
  41. Joseph Henry Clarke
  42. William Ernest Clay
  43. George Austin Clayton
  44. Albert Cleaver
  45. Jabez Clifford
  46. Harold Coomber
  47. Albert Cordon
  48. Leonard Cosway
  49. Jabez William Crowson
  50. Ernest Creed
  51. Albert Edward Cresswell
  52. Bernard William Crouch
  53. Leonard Crouch
  54. Thomas Davis
  55. William Davis
  56. Harry Hooley Daykin
  57. Thomas Daykin
  58. William George Domleo
  59. Frederick James Dove
  60. Bert Faulkner
  61. Alfred George Field
  62. Alfred Figg
  63. Bertie Stanley Fletcher
  64. Percy Fletcher
  65. Owen Clay Ford
  66. William Foulger
  67. Frederick Furmidge
  68. Charles Emmanuel Geeson
  69. George William Gill
  70. Alfred Henry Gould
  71. Harry Greasley
  72. Charles Henry Green
  73. John Thomas Greensmith
  74. George Binnie Greig
  75. Ronald Griffin
  76. Albert Leslie Grundy
  77. John William Gunn
  78. John Hadlinton
  79. James Hall
  80. W. Alan Hall
  81. A. Hallam
  82. Edmund Arthur Hallam
  83. William Hallam
  84. John Henry Hallam
  85. William Hallam
  86. Ernest Hardy
  87. Joseph Hardy
  88. Oliver C. Hardy
  89. Enoch Benjamin Harris
  90. Albert Edward Harrison
  91. Benjamin Hawkins
  92. Elijah Henshaw
  93. James Hind
  94. Richard Hindson
  95. Arthur Hogg
  96. Rex Harold Hooks
  97. Walter Hooton
  98. Thomas Henry Hopewell
  99. William Henry Horrobin
  100. John Henry Hoult
  101. John Thomas Hutton
  102. Harold Ernest James Jackson
  103. James Jacques (Jakes)
  104. Arthur Jacques
  105. John William Leslie Keeley
  106. Albert Keeling
  107. George William Kerry
  108. Oscar Arthur Kerry
  109. Frank Kirk
  110. Frederick Langham
  111. Frederick Langham
  112. Joseph Leek
  113. Frederick John Lewin
  114. Harold Ernest Longmire
  115. Albert Edward Lowe
  116. Thomas Lynes
  117. Arthur Marriott
  118. Arthur Ernest Medhurst
  119. John Shardlow Mellows
  120. Stuart Bowie Melville
  121. Samuel B. Merriman
  122. Ernest Augustus Mettam
  123. Albert Edward Mew
  124. Thomas Mills
  125. George Edmund Minton
  126. Albert Henry Mirfin
  127. John Charles Mitchell
  128. Thomas Henry Moore
  129. Sidney Herbert Morley
  130. Arthur Mosley
  131. C. Mosley
  132. Joseph Needham
  133. Ernest Newbold
  134. George Newbold
  135. J. Newbold
  136. E. Newton
  137. Ernest Charles Newton
  138. James Vincent Oldershaw
  139. Lawrence Wiliam Oldershaw
  140. Thomas Henry Pacey
  141. C. W. Page
  142. Amos Parker
  143. Herbert George Pendrell
  144. Bert Gwinnett Phillips
  145. George Thomas Phipps
  146. George Edwin Pickett
  147. Percy Pollard
  148. John Enoch Repton
  149. Walter John Rhodes
  150. Collin Ridgway
  151. Charles Scholes
  152. Thomas Henry Selby
  153. Joseph Hinton Sellwood
  154. James Alec Shaw
  155. Arthur Shepherd
  156. William John Shepherd
  157. Ernest Simpkins
  158. Albert Smedley
  159. Ernest Smith
  160. William Edward Smith
  161. John Strachan Starbuck
  162. Walter Joseph Summerlin
  163. Harry G. Taylor
  164. John Joseph Thompson
  165. Frederick Thornhill
  166. Alfred Reginald Tinsley
  167. John Hugh Tomlinson
  168. Isaac Arthur Tucker
  169. Thomas Tunaley
  170. Ernest Tunnicliffe
  171. Thomas Vernon
  172. James Eric Wainwright
  173. Noel Wainwright
  174. David Ernest Walker
  175. Ernest Walker
  176. Joshua Wall
  177. Ernest Albert Wallis
  178. Jack Yates Wallis
  179. Francis George Swann Walters
  180. Charles Edward Watkin
  181. George Watson
  182. Arthur Edward Webster
  183. John Wheat
  184. John Whitehead
  185. Albert Arthur Wiggin
  186. Albert Edward Winfield
  187. Walter Woodruffe
  188. William George York
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Names, Geographical

The parish name is first noted in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears spelt as now.

Locals oftern refer to the town as "Stabbo".

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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • This parish was in the south division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
     
  • In April, 1935, this parish was abolished to set up the new parish of Beeston and Stapleford.
     
  • You may contact the Stapleford Town Council regarding civic or political matters, but they CANNOT help you with family history lookups.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Broxtowe Borough Council.
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • The Common Land was enclosed in 1795.
     
  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poor Law Union. Shardlow is in Derbyshire.
     
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Population

 YearInhabitants
1801748
18511,968
18611,729
18711,967
18813,196
18914,255
19015,766
19117,789
19218,513
19318,838
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Schools

  • In 1836 a large National School was built here, near the east end of the village on Nottingham Road. It was endowed by Lady Caroline WARREN.
     
  • The Board School was built of red brick and opened in November, 1880. It could hold 300 students.
     
  • ALAN MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former National School on Church Street on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.