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Stokeham

"Stokeham is a small village and parish, five miles north east from Tuxford, only containing 60 inhabitants, and about 564 acres of land, of which, William and John Otter, and Joseph Quibell are resident owners, and Thomas Kneeton and Frederick Beardsall have estates here; but Earl Manvers is lord of the manor, which in Doomsday Book is called Estoches, and was soc to Fledborough, of the fee of the Bishop of Lincoln, and was successively held by the families of Lysure, Bassett, Swift and Amstrudders.

The church is a small fabric, annexed to the vicarage of East Drayton, which has all the tithes of the parish; the Rev. John Goodacre is the incumbent."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

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

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Church History

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1862 and again in 1881.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1650 and is in good condition, although imperfectly kept.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford (or No. 2 deanery of Retford).
  
  
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1869.
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Tuxford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Description and Travel

This village, township and parish are about 5 miles north-east of Tuxford and 6 miles south-east of Retford. The parish covers only 564 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A57 trunk road, heading east off of the A1 trunk road and turn north at Darlton. Continue north thru East Drayton to get to Stokeham.
  
  

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Directories

• An extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7876.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance 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 Chapelry in Nottingham county. It apparantly became a modern Civil Parish in 1834, but that date is uncertain.
  
  
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Inhabitants
1861	53
1871	53
1881	43
1891	35

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