Thoroton
As described in 1871:
"THOROTON, a parish in Bingham district, Notts; 2 miles N of Elton r. station, and 4½ NE by E of Bingham. Post town, Nottingham. Acres, 730. Real property, £1,168. Pop., 210. Houses, 43. T. Hall is the residence of G. Storer. The living is a vicarage annexed to Orston. The church is good."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
- The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2483 |
- The Anglican parish chapel was dedicated to Saint Helena.
- The church was restored in 1869.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1589.
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1777-1854.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham No. 2.
- The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
Thoroton is a small village, township, parochial chapelry and a parish on the northwest bank of the Smite River (or Rivulet). The village stands 4 miles northeast of Bingham, 9 miles southwest of Newark-on-Trent and 125 miles north of London.
If you are planning a visit:
- Thoroton is north of the A52 and east of the A46 trunk roads. Take the A52 east out of Bingham and turn northeast at Aslocton.
- Burghley House, the seat of the Marquess of Exeter, lies in Stamford Baron. Some sources refer to it as Burghley Hall.
- The national grid reference is SK 7642.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- This place was an ancient chapelry in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish around 1866.
- This place was anciently a Berue of Orston, which lies to the south.
- The parish was in north division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the eastern (or southern) part of the county.
- In March, 1889, this parish was enlarged by 56 acres taken from Hawksworth Civil Parish.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1799.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
- William ABBOTT left, some time before 1869, the interest from £25 for poor widows in the parish.
| Year |
Population |
| 1841 |
120 |
| 1851 |
177 |
| 1861 |
210 |
| 1871 |
188 |
| 1881 |
152 |
| 1891 |
121 |
| 1901 |
88 |
| 1911 |
100 |
| 1921 |
84 |
| 1931 |
105 |
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[Last updated: 27-November-2011 - Louis R. Mills]
