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"Sutton In Ashfield Parish extends from three to five miles west of Mansfield, and contains 7,704 inhabitants, and 5,960 acres of land, divided into the two townships of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, and of which 2,135 acres belong to the Duke of Portland, including 1,100 acres alloted to him at the enclosure in 1798, in lieu of rectorial tithes, His Grace being the impropriator and lord of the manor, which is partly copyhold, and was anciently a Berne of the Soke of Mansfield. Amongst the old tenures, we find that Jordon de Sutton held here of the crown, by paying 14s yearly, besides rendering homage, suit and service at the Mansfield court every three weeks, and attending the King's army in Wales with one man and horse, and harbergeon, cap of iron, lance and sword.
Sutton-in-Ashfield, 3½ miles west south west of Mansfield, is a very large village, situated on an eminence, and covering a considerable extent of ground, comprising 6,554 inhabitants and 5,160 acres of land, principally belonging to the Duke of Portland, but several others have estates here. Samuel Unwin and Co. carried on the extensive factory for spinning and making checks and nankeens, but for the last few years this factory has been closed, and in 1851, Messrs Bean and Johnson took it on a lease, and has converted it into a silk mill. The manufactures of cotton hosiery give employment to a great number of the inhabitants, there being upwards of 1,800 stocking frames in the village. Here are likewise two potteries of coarse earthenware."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

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Archives & Libraries

The Sutton-in-Ashfield Library is a wheelchair-friendly facility that has a Local History Section and a Newspaper and Magazine Section as well. It is generally open six days per week. Affiliated with the Library is a General Registry Office open only 5 days per week. The Library is located at:

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Bibliography

  • BONSER, George Gershom, "History of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Fulwood, and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite," publ. British Library, 1993, ISBN 13: 9781241606244.
     
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Cemeteries

  • The Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery, opened in 1893, is on Hutchwaith Road and originally covered 10 acres.
     
  • The Ashfield District Council has an online index to burials. Select "Burials" for a search argument.
     
  • Also check Ashfield Cemetery Records Online, which is the same database.
     
  • The Cemetery is administered by the Urban District Council.
     
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Census

  • The parish was in the Sutton in Ashfield sub-district in the Mansfield Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1841H.O. 107 / 861
1851H.O. 107 / 2123
1861R.G. 9 / 2426 & 2427
1871R.G. 10 / 3468
1891R.G. 12 / 2652, 2653 & 2661
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Church History

  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene.
     
  • There was a Christian church here in 1170.
     
  • Most of the church structure was built in the 14th century.
     
  • The church was restored and enlarged in 1868.
     
  • The church seats 600.
     
  • A Yew tree in the churchyard was over 800 years old.
     
  • Ann B. has a photograph of St. Mary Magdalene Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.
     
  • There was a Church Institute in Hardwick Street that was formed into an ecclesiastical parish of Saint Michael and All Angels in October, 1910. A church was soon erected, built of stone and seating 650.
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish registers date from 1577.
     
  • Registers for the Church of St. Michael and All Angels date from 1903 for baptisms and 1910 for marriages.
     
  • The parish was in the deanery of Mansfield.
     
  • The Baptists had a chapel built here in 1811.
     
  • The Independents (Congregationalists) had a chapel here 1651 and erected a new one in 1906.
     
  • The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1869, but built a new one in 1882.
     
  • The Primitve Methodists had a chapel here in 1866.
     
  • A Methodist chapel was built in Hucknall-under-Huthwaite before 1869.
     
  • A Methodist Free Church was built in Hucknall-under-Huthwaite before 1869.
     
  • David BEVIS has a photograph of the United Reformed Church, built in 1906, on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
     
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Civil Registration

  • The parish was in the Sutton in Ashfield sub-district in the Mansfield Registration District.
     
  • Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
     
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Description & Travel

Sutton-in-Ashfield is a parish comprised of the townships of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite. The parish is 140 miles north of London, 8 miles south-west of Mansfield and covers over 6,000 acres.

Forest Side and Sutton Woodside are parts of this parish. If you are planning a visit:

  • Sutton in Ashfield is, and was, referred to as just Sutton. Sutton Bonnington is a separate parish.
     
  • Huthwaite Online provided by Gary Elliott.
     
You can see pictures of Sutton in Ashfield which are provided by:

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Directories

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Encyclopaedias & Dictionaries

From: "A Topographical Dictionary of England", by Samuel LEWIS, 7th Edition, 1848, Vol 4, p.277:

"SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD (St Mary), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, northern division of the wapentake of Broxtow and of the county of Nottingham, 3 1/2 miles west-south-west from Mansfield; containing, with the hamlet of Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, 6,557 inhabitants [in 1848], of whom 5,670 are in Sutton township.

The village is situated on an eminence, and comprises several streets, covering a considerable extent of ground : limestone of excellent quality abounds in the vicinity. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the manufacture of cotton hose and lace. A few persons find employment in making a coarse kind of red pottery ware; and the Mansfield and Pinxton railway, which passes through the parish, affords facility for conveying the produce. A Book Society has been established for several years. There is a small customary market for provisions on Saturday.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, without surplice fees, 100 pounds; patron, the Duke of DEVONSHIRE; impropriator, the Duke of PORTLAND: the tithes were commuted for land in 1794. The church which stands on an eminence, has a handsome octagonal spire. There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans; and a national school for boys is partly supported by about 10 pounds per annum from benefactions.

Near the village is Mapple Wells, the water of which has been successfully used in rheumatic cases.

Joseph WHITEHEAD, a frame-work knitter, remarkable for his attainments in astronomy and mechanics, and who constructed an orrery upon Ferguson's principle, and other complicated pieces of machinery, was born here in 1784."
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Gazetteers

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History

  • In the 1800s, many inhabitants were frame-work knitters.
     
  • The Town Hall was constructed of brick in 1890.
     
  • Cattle fairs were held on the second Tuesday in April and the last Tuesday in September.
     
  • A Cheese fair was held with the Cattle fair on the last Tuesday in September.
     
  • The parish held a feast for residents on the second Sunday after July 10th.
     
  • Find more detail at Nottinghamshire History.
     
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK489590 (Lat/Lon: 53.125934, -1.270691), Sutton in Ashfield which are provided by:

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Military History

  • In 1912, Company C of the 8th Battalion, Sherwwod Foresters, had its headquarters here at the Drill Hall on Alfreton Road. Lieut. M. C. MARTYN, commanding; Color-Sergt. Richard John COURTNEY, drill instructor.
     
  • At the beginning of World War I, this unit was assigned to guard the Great Northern Railway. A number of the men in the unit were found unfit for active military service or were disqualified due to age, family and business ties, and other reasons. The unit marched to Derby for training.
     
  • There are 65 Commonwealth War Graves in Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery.
     
  • Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the WWII Memorial Churchgates on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
     
  • Trevor RICKARD also has a photograph of the War Memorial for both World Wars on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
     
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Military Records

This is the list of names from the War Memorial in the churchyard:

  1. Benjamin William Adams
  2. Ernest Leonard Adams
  3. John George Adkin
  4. John Allatt
  5. Ernest Allsop
  6. George Frederick Allsop
  7. George William Allsop
  8. Horace Allsop
  9. Sampson George Allsop
  10. Tom Alvey
  11. Sibery Antill
  12. C. Bacon
  13. Wilfred Baggaley
  14. Leonard Baguley
  15. William Baguley
  16. S. Baines
  17. George Baldwin
  18. Frederick Ball
  19. William Barksby
  20. George Barnes
  21. Cyril James Barratt
  22. Richard Barton
  23. George Bath
  24. Albert Edward Baugh
  25. Squire James Baugh
  26. George Bean
  27. William Henry Bean
  28. Thomas Frederick Beardall
  29. William Ernest Beardsley
  30. Albert Beastall
  31. George Beastall
  32. Joseph Beresford
  33. George Berry
  34. Samuel Berry
  35. Ernest Bills
  36. William James Bills
  37. Bertie Binch
  38. Joseph William Bird
  39. Felvus Frederick Birks
  40. Alfred Blinkhorn
  41. Harry Blinkhorn
  42. Josiah Blythe
  43. Geoffrey Alwyn Gershom Bonser
  44. William Boot
  45. W. J. Booth
  46. Harold Bowler
  47. Verney Bradder
  48. Thomas Bradford
  49. Robert Edward Bradshaw
  50. Frank William Brailsford
  51. George Brailsford
  52. John Edward Bramley
  53. Samuel Bramley
  54. Albert Irving (Iving) Brammer
  55. Arthur Brassington
  56. Thomas Breedon
  57. William Henry Briggs
  58. Clarence Brown
  59. John Henry Toon Brownlow
  60. John Leslie Buckland
  61. John Buckley
  62. Walter Buckley
  63. Fred Bucklow
  64. Samuel William Bunfield
  65. David Burgess
  66. Edward Burton
  67. John George Burton
  68. Stephen Burton
  69. Horace Butler
  70. William Henry Edward Butterworth
  71. Edward Buttery
  72. Ernest Buxton
  73. George Gersham Buxton
  74. Frederick Scott Byron
  75. Thomas Campbell
  76. Joseph Cantwell
  77. Hilary Carlin
  78. Fred Carter
  79. Cecil Caunt
  80. Frederick Caunt
  81. Jesse B. Caunt
  82. Percy Caunt
  83. Robert Caunt
  84. Reginald Corns
  85. Thomas George Ceney
  86. Bertrand George William Clark
  87. Francis Edward Scott Clarke
  88. Stanley Clark
  89. Joseph Anthony Clayton
  90. Arthur Oswald Clayton
  91. William Dexter Clowes
  92. John Cobb
  93. Charles Frederick Coleman
  94. George Coleman
  95. Frank William Coleman
  96. Harry Colley
  97. Alfred Cook
  98. Harold Cook
  99. Arthur Cooke
  100. H. Cooper
  101. William Copestake
  102. Albert Edward Corson
  103. Albert Edward Cotton
  104. Sampson Cotton
  105. Albert Crampton
  106. Harry Critchlow
  107. Thomas Edward Crofts
  108. John Charles Cudworth
  109. Arthur Cutts
  110. John William Dallison
  111. Harry Davies
  112. Thomas William Davis
  113. Sidney Day
  114. Samuel Denby
  115. Cyril Dennis
  116. John Henry Dennis
  117. John William Dexter
  118. James Doncaster
  119. Harry Dorn
  120. Archie Dove
  121. Ernest Dove
  122. Henry Dove
  123. Peter Dove
  124. Samuel Adlington Dove
  125. William Dove
  126. John Dudley
  127. John William Edwards
  128. Henry Egner
  129. Fred Evans
  130. William Farnsworth
  131. Henry Farrands
  132. James Fisher
  133. Frank Fitchett
  134. Arthur Fowler
  135. John William Fowler
  136. Samuel Fowler
  137. Harry Fox
  138. Walter James Fox
  139. Arthur Ernest Freeman
  140. Walter Freeman
  141. Aaron Gannon
  142. Charles Gascoigne
  143. George Eli Geary
  144. Thomas James Gent
  145. Harry Gibbard
  146. Arthur Gittins
  147. Frank Godson
  148. William Godson
  149. John Thomas Goodall
  150. Isaiah Gough
  151. Thomas Greaves
  152. Victor Greaves
  153. Charles Alfred Green
  154. Arthur Gregory
  155. Frank Gregory
  156. John Thomas Gregory
  157. Samuel Gregory
  158. Herbert Groves
  159. Robert Guy
  160. Joseph Hadfield
  161. William Hale
  162. Ernest Hall
  163. H. Hall
  164. John Arthur Hall
  165. Joseph Gershom Hall
  166. Thomas (E.) George Hall
  167. Thomas George Hall
  168. George Hallam
  169. Samuel Hallam
  170. Albert Harold Hardy
  171. John Henry Hardy
  172. Lancelot Harris
  173. William Harris
  174. Frederick Harrison
  175. Walter Harrison
  176. George Hastings
  177. John Robert Hatcliffe
  178. Henry Hawksley
  179. James (Jim) Hayes
  180. Leonard Hayes
  181. Samuel Heath
  182. Harry Heathcote
  183. Thomas Heathcote
  184. Douglas Hepworth
  185. Henry James Jephson Hepworth
  186. Frederick Herring
  187. James William Herring
  188. Albert Victor Hewitt
  189. Charles William Hebbards
  190. Ernest Henry Hinton
  191. George Hinton
  192. Samuel Hodgkinson
  193. Luke Holland
  194. John Holmes
  195. George William Holmes
  196. James Cartledge Hooley
  197. Harry Hopkinson
  198. Alfred Housley
  199. Harold Hunt
  200. Alfred Huskinson
  201. Clarence Hutchinson
  202. Everett Hutchinson
  203. Frank Hutchinson
  204. Harry Hutchinson
  205. Percy Cyril Frank Hutchinson
  206. David Irving
  207. Frederick William Jeanes
  208. Enoch Johnson
  209. Henry Johnson
  210. William Henry Johnson
  211. Maurice Jones
  212. John Henry Keighley
  213. Thomas Anthony Kerry
  214. Cyril Kidger
  215. John James Kirk
  216. Matthew Henry Knowles
  217. James Lee
  218. Douglas Dalziel Leverton
  219. Jack Leverton
  220. Bertie Clarke Liley
  221. Gordon Lockley
  222. William Lowbridge
  223. Joseph Frederick Mallen
  224. Albert Marriott
  225. Alfred Marriott
  226. Frederick Marriott
  227. George Marriott
  228. Alfred Roebuck Marsh
  229. George William Marsh
  230. Harold Marsh
  231. James Marsh
  232. Robert Henry Marsh
  233. Leslie Marshall
  234. Thomas Green Marshall
  235. Samuel Martin
  236. Thomas Massey
  237. William Matchett
  238. Bertie McCubbin
  239. William McCubbin
  240. Walter Meakin
  241. Cyril Mellors
  242. Arthur Middleton
  243. Albert Miller
  244. Charles Davy Miller
  245. Joseph Miller
  246. Wilfrid Edmund Millership
  247. Ralph Franklin Mills
  248. Arthur Moore
  249. Cyril Moore
  250. Fred Morley
  251. John Morley
  252. Joseph Parsons Morley
  253. Ernest Morrell
  254. Matthew Benjamin Morris
  255. Walter Morris
  256. William Owen Morris
  257. James Neal
  258. Arthur Newstead
  259. John Thomas Nicholls
  260. Peter Harold Nightingale
  261. John North
  262. Robert Dudley North
  263. William Norwood
  264. Albert Ernest Oakley
  265. George Charles Kennedy Osborne
  266. Ira Paling
  267. Thomas Parbutt
  268. Peter Parker
  269. Peter Wilson Percy Parkes
  270. John Parkin
  271. John William Parnell
  272. J. E. Payne
  273. S. A Payne
  274. J. W. Pearce
  275. Stephen Pemblington
  276. Charles Peplow
  277. Edwin Pepper
  278. John Pickard
  279. John William Pickbourne
  280. Wilfred Harry Picken
  281. William Henry Potter
  282. John Edward Pryme
  283. Samuel A. Pryme
  284. William Pursglove
  285. Alfred Radford
  286. James Radford
  287. John George Radford
  288. Absalom Randle
  289. Thomas Randle
  290. Thomas Randle
  291. Arthur Reeves
  292. Charles James Reeves
  293. Jesse Reeves
  294. George Renshaw
  295. Bernard Revill
  296. James William Revill
  297. John Revill
  298. John Thomas Richards
  299. W. Richards
  300. John Wilfred Richardson
  301. Percy Edward Richardson
  302. Leonard Riley
  303. Edward Charles Roberts
  304. George William Roberts
  305. Samuel Bernard Roberts
  306. Charles William Robinson
  307. Arthur Rockley
  308. Arthur Roebuck
  309. William James Rogers
  310. Stanley Ronalds
  311. Allen Charles Brooks Roper
  312. John William Roper
  313. Albert Edward Sale
  314. Jonathan Sanderson
  315. Walter Sanderson
  316. Trevor Thomas Sargent
  317. Albert Saunders
  318. Albert Saunders
  319. Joseph Nuttall Saunders
  320. Joseph Savage
  321. Stanley Saxton
  322. John William Scothern
  323. Alfred Marriott (Scott)
  324. Horace Scott
  325. Albert Searson
  326. Harry Searson
  327. John Herbert Shardlow
  328. Alfred Shaw
  329. Samuel Shaw
  330. Samuel Shawcroft
  331. George William Shelton
  332. Herbert Shooter
  333. Samuel Sills
  334. George Simms
  335. Richard Simms
  336. Walter Singleton
  337. Frank Sissons
  338. Cecil John Slack
  339. Harold Thomas Slack
  340. Herbert Slack
  341. Frederick James Slaney
  342. Alfred Lewis Slater
  343. Arthur Smith
  344. Cyril Smith
  345. Euphrates Smith
  346. Sidney Arthur Smith
  347. William Smith
  348. W. Smith
  349. W. Smith
  350. Arthur Snaith
  351. Samuel Soar
  352. George William Spavound
  353. Samuel Horace Spencer
  354. William Henry Spencer
  355. Harry Squires
  356. Daniel Staley
  357. Joseph Staley
  358. George Stendall
  359. Joseph Stendall
  360. Joseph Henry Stocks
  361. William Stocks
  362. Cyril Carfield Straw
  363. Ernest Swann
  364. Lewis Swindell
  365. William Ernald Tagg
  366. Arthur Taylor
  367. George Isaac Taylor
  368. Harold Taylor
  369. J. Thompson
  370. John James Thompson
  371. Joseph Thompson
  372. William Henry Tipping
  373. Charles Edward Townsend
  374. Fred Townsend
  375. George Townsend
  376. Herbert Trenam
  377. Arthur Turner
  378. Ernest Turner
  379. E. W. Turner
  380. Harry Turner
  381. Horace William Turner
  382. Joseph Turner
  383. Robert Turner
  384. William Turner
  385. Arthur John Turpie
  386. George Turton
  387. Walter Turton
  388. Matthew Hiram Vardy
  389. John William Varley
  390. William Wain
  391. Robert Waldron
  392. Albert Radford Walker
  393. Wilfred Walker
  394. William James Walker
  395. Frank Wallace
  396. Thomas Wallace
  397. Rowland Arthur Walters
  398. George Walton
  399. John George Walton
  400. Charles Ward
  401. Thomas Leslie Ward
  402. Arthur Andrew Wass
  403. Bernard Arthur Wass
  404. George H. Watson
  405. Horace Webster
  406. Horace Webster
  407. George Samuel Wheawall
  408. Gershom Whetton
  409. George Haddon White
  410. George Taylor Whyman
  411. Douglas Wilcockson
  412. Gershom Wildsmith
  413. Wilfred Wildsmith
  414. William Wildsmith
  415. W. H. Wilkinson
  416. Arthur Edward Wilks
  417. Arthur Williams
  418. W. J. Williams
  419. Tom Willoughby
  420. Thomas Douglas Wilson
  421. Walter William Wilson
  422. Sidney Andrew Wingrove
  423. Arthur Edward Woolley
  424. Henry Wilsoncroft
  425. John Wilsoncroft
  426. Thomas Wilsoncroft
  427. F. Wright
  428. Henry Gordon Wright
  429. James Young
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Newspapers

The local newspaper was the Nottinghamshire Free Press, published every Friday by Frederick William BUCK & Sons. Publication started in 1885. Publication ended in 1986 when it amalgamated with the Recorder: Mansfield and Sutton.

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Politics & Government

  • This parish was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • This parish was in the north division of Nottinghamshire.
     
  • This parish was in the north division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
     
  • Sutton-in-Ashfield formed an Urban District Council in December, 1894.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Ashfield District Council.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Mansfield petty session hearings held at the Police Court every week.
     
  • The Common Land was enclosed here in 1798.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
     
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Population

 YearPopulation
18013,311
18314,805
18415,734
18517,692
18617,643
18717,574
18818,523
189110,562
190118,943
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Schools

  • A National School for both sexes was built here in 1845. The school was originally established in 1819, but quickly became too small for its purpose.
     
  • A National School in Hucknall-under-Huthwaite was built in 1867.