Staunton

The Library at Newark-on-Trent will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Bennington sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The 1086 Domesday Book records a priest and a church.
   
• The Anglican Parish Church is dedicated to Saint Mary.
   
• The church is located on the east side of the High Street.
   
• The date of original construction remains unreported, but is believed to be 12th century, rebuilt in the 14th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1854, with portions of the nave and the porch rebuilt.
   
• The church was restored again in 1936.
   
• The church is a Grade II* structure with English Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   
• Richard CROFT has another view of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of the Churchyard gate on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• Up until 1857, there stood a separate building known as the Staunton Chapel, built c1346 in the south part of the churchyard.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1663.
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Newark.
   
• The marriages for 1663 through 1812 have been transcribed and are in Phillimore's Vol. 4 at the Family History Library.
   
• W.P.W. PHILLIMORE: "Parish registers for Staunton Chapel," S & N Pulbishing, ISBN 9-7818-61501-554, 1663-1802).
   

• The parish was in the Bennington sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

Staunton (or Staunton in the Vale) was a parish and a township on the river Devon, due south of Newark.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Staunton to another place.

Colin PYLE has a photograph of the Staunton Arms Inn on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Staunton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014. The Hall is on the south edge of the village.

The pages of “The Heart of Midlothian,” written while Sir Walter SCOTT was a guest at Staunton Hall, contain pen pictures of Staunton-in-the-Vale, under the pseudonym of Willingham.

• The national grid reference is SK 8043.
   
• You'll want an Ordnance Survey "Explorer" map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK806436 (Lat/Lon: 52.98369, -0.800906), Staunton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• The Great War Bulletin for November 16th, 1914; tells us that the following men were selected as Special Constables for Staunton for the duration of the war: George Ernest MARSH and James BAGULEY, farmers.
   
• There is no War Memorial in the parish church.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Lancaster W4270 Memorial from the 1943 crash, taken outside the church on Geo-graph in August, 2008.
   
• Di ABLEWHITE also has a photograph of the Lancaster W4270 Memorial on Geo-graph taken in July, 2010. The memorial is decorated for a celebration.

Adrian S. PYE has a photograph of the Wellington W4270 War Memorial and a list of the casualties on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2020.

There is a memorial on the East Wall of the church to Captain the Reverend Harvey Staunton who died in 1918:

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF CAPTN THE REVD HARVEY STAUNTON, SON OF THE REVD FRANCIS STAUNTON, OF STAUNTON, WHO DIED SERVING HIS GOD AND HIS COUNTRY AS CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTYS FORCES IN MESOPOTAMIA; AGED 46 YEARS. JANUARY 14TH 1918."

On the east external wall of the church tower is a memorial to the Reverend John Staunton (1851):

"TO THE MEMORY OF
THE REVD JOHN STAUNTON, L.L.D.
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH AND OF
KILVINGTON AND ELTON IN THIS COUNTY
OFFICIAL OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF NOTTINGHAM
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTIES
OF NOTTINGHAM AND LEICESTER
AND FOR SOMETIME CHAIRMAN
OF THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS
AT NEWARK.
HE ALSO HAD BEEN SEVERAL YEARS RECTOR
OF ST PETERS IN NOTTINGHAM AND VICAR OF
HINCKLEY IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER
HE DIED ON THE 2ND DAY OF JUNE
A.D. 1851 IN THE 87TH YEAR OF HIS AGE."

• This place was an ancient Chapelry of Orston parish in Nottinghamshire for centuries and was converted to its own parish before 1827.
   
• Prior to Civil Registration this place was often referred to as "Staunton Chapel".
   
• The parish was in the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	146
1821	142
1841	93
1851	93
1881	95
1891	95
1901	102