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"Warsop Parish is situated at the south-west corner of Bassetlaw, and is bounded on the west by Derbyshire, on the north by Cuckney, on the east by Budby, and on the south by the parishes of Edwinstowe and Mansfield. It is divided into the two townships of Warsop and Sookholme, which contain together 1,394 inhabitants and 6,956 acres of land, of which upwards of 200 acres are in woods and plantations. The forest land was partly enclosed in 1775, and the remainder by an act passed in 1818, but the award was not signed till 1824, when 713a 3r 13p were allotted to the rector in lieu of all the tithes of the parish.
Warsop township comprises 5,974 acres of land, and 1,318 inhabitants, mostly living in the two villages of Church Warsop and Market Warsop, which are situated on the opposite banks of the River Meden, 5½ miles north-north-east of Mansfield. Sir Richard Henry Fitzherbert, Bart.,is lord of the manor, patron of the rectory, and owner of all the soil, except about 300 acres belonging to Mr Charles Jackson, and Mr Willowes Wright. The market here has long been obsolete, but three fairs are still held annually, viz. on the Monday before White-Monday for cattle, sheep &c.; on November 17th for cattle; and on Michaelmas Day for sheep."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

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Archives & Libraries

  • A Parochial Library was established in 1842.
     
  • The Warsop Library on High Street is normally open only four days a week.  It is part of the Nottinghamshire County Library System.
     
  • The Library at Mansfield would also be a good resource.
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Bibliography

BLYTHMAN, Frank, "Warsop Remembered", 51 pages, publ 1991, Old Warsop Society, ASIN: B00DV1WVAW. Available on Amazon.

KING, Richard J., "Warsop Parish Registers", publ. 1884 (reprinted 1984). publisher William Gouk. Available online at GenFair in PDF format.

A copy of Mr. KING's book is in the Nottinghamshire Archives Office.

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Cemeteries

  • Warsop Cemetery is on Cuckney Hill Road, north of the town.
     
  • Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Church Warsop Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.  This is a civil cemetery referred to as the Cuckney Hill Cemetery.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the parish churchyard gateway on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
     
  • Andy STEPHENSON has a photograph of the Gravestones in Church Warsop churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2014.
     
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Census

  • The parish was in the Warsop sub-district of the Mansfield Registration District.
     
  • The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
     
Census
Year
Piece No.
1841H.O. 107 / 852
1851H.O. 107 / 2123
1861R.G. 9 / 2423
1871R.G. 10 / 3464
1891R.G. 12 / 2648
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Church History

  • A Saxon church was here at the time of the Domesday Survey (1068).
     
  • The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
     
  • The church was built in the 12th century.
     
  • A clock was donated to the church tower by Reb. Francis MARTIN in 1844.
     
  • The church was restored in 1878.
     
  • Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of St. Peter and St. Paul Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
     
  • Neil THEASBY has a photograph of St. Peter and St. Paul Church standing on a low hill on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
     
  • The church erected a Mission room and infants school in the middle of the parish in 1875.
     
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Church Records

  • The Anglican parish church register dates from 1538.
     
  • "Warsop Parish Records" by Richard J KING, written 1884, publ: William Goul, 3 Westgate, Mansfield.
     
  • The Anglican church was in the No. 3 deanery of Retford.
     
  • The Baptists had a chapel here before 1853.
     
  • The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1853.
     
  • The Congregationalists had a chapel here before 1881.
     
  • Alan HEARDMAN has a photograph of the Bethel Full Gospel Church in Carter Lane on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
     
  • Chris MORGAN has a photograph of St. Teresa"s Catholic Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016. This is a fairly new structure, built in 1974 at the end of High Street near the Millennium Cross. This church was formed as part of the St Joseph’s Parish, Shirebrook.
     
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Civil Registration

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

This town and parish lies on both banks of the River Meden, 140 miles north of London, about 8 miles south-west of Worksop and 5.5 miles north-east of Mansfield. The parish covers almost 7,000 acres and includes the townships of Warsop and Sookholme and the hamlets of Gleadthorpe and Nettleworth.

Warsop township makes up about 6,000 acres and includes the two villages of Church Warsop and Market Warsop. The Market here has long been obsolete.

Sookholme township and chapelry makes up about 982 acres at the west end of the parish, up against Derbyshire, and includes the village of Sookholme. The village is about 4 miles north of Mansfield. The chapel here is a chapel-of-ease for Warsop. Magnesian Limestone is found in great quantities here. About a quarter of a mile south-west of the village is a spring, from which a small stream runs through the village into the Meden River.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

  • The village is on the A60 south out of Worksop or north out of Mansfield.
     
  • Check out the Community News.
     
  • Stagecoach bus 12 runs twice an hour between Shirebrook, Warsop and Mansfield.
     
  • Warsop railway station operated between 1897 and 1955. The rail line is currently freight-only, but there is comminity interest is restarting passenger service between Shirebrook (DBY) and Warsop.
     
  • The parish holds an annual carnival traditionally scheduled on the first or second Sunday in July.
     
You can see pictures of Warsop which are provided by:

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Directories

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Gazetteers

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History

  • Cattle fairs were held the Monday before Whitsunday, on 29 September and again on 17 November.
     
  • Warsop watermill was built in 1767 and restored in 1924.
     
  • A county police station was built in 1894.
     
  • In 1930, Samuel Fell WILSON, a Warsop grocer, wine merchant, and publisher of the Warsop and District Almanack, was shot in the head and chest as he sat in his car outside the mill. The murderer was never identified. There is a local road named Fell Wilson Street.
     
  • Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Metz Lodge on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009.
     
  • Graham HOGG has a photograph of The Gate pub and restaurant on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
     
  • J. THOMAS has a photograph of The Plough Inn on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
     
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Maps

  • See our Maps page for additional resources.
     
  • You can find a good online map of Market Warsop at the Mansfiled Gov. site.
     

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK566679 (Lat/Lon: 53.205166, -1.154064), Warsop which are provided by:

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Military History

  • James HILL has a photograph of the War Memorial in Church Warsop on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES also has a photograph of the War Memorial in Church Warsop on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
     
  • Andrew HILL has a photograph of the same War Memorial at the churchyard entrance on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
     
  • There are 15 Commonwealth War Graves in the Warsop Urban Council Cemetery.
     
  • Warsop has an Army Cadet Force, which has a Facebook page for interested parties.
     
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Military Records

There is a War Memorial plaque in the church. To see the list of names on it, see the Southwell Church History Project site.

Nottingham County provides these names from the church memorial.

  1. James Ball
  2. Francis Matthew Ball
  3. Thomas Barker
  4. Walter Henry Barlow
  5. Alfred Bills
  6. Thomas Henry Blackamore
  7. James Bowman
  8. John H. Bowskill
  9. Frederick Bramley
  10. Charles Alfred Bunn
  11. Charles Cadman
  12. Walter Cammack
  13. Arthur Edward Catling
  14. Bertie Clark
  15. Frederick James Coates
  16. John Thomas Coleman
  17. William Copeland
  18. Clifford Davey
  19. David Davis
  20. John William Dennett
  21. Robert Mckee Devine
  22. Joel Drabble
  23. Alfred Drury
  24. Thomas Duckmanton
  25. Harry Ellis
  26. William Henry Featherston
  27. Joseph Fenton
  28. Frank William Fieldsend
  29. Ernest Henry Foley
  30. John Thomas Foley
  31. George Thomas Getley
  32. Joseph Ghilks
  33. Jack Gladwin Green
  34. Charles Walter Green
  35. William George Grooby
  36. Thomas Percy Hallam
  37. George Harrison
  38. Samuel Hetterley
  39. William Norman Hill
  40. Joseph Hollingsworth
  41. James William Holmes
  42. Charles William Hough
  43. Benjamin Ibbs
  44. Frederick William Ingham
  45. Allen Jackson
  46. David Jarvis
  47. Samuel Charles Johnson
  48. Felix William Jordan
  49. John William Key
  50. George Lee
  51. S. Mayer
  52. Henry Mellors
  53. Arthur Nettleship
  54. Lewis Reginald Nilan
  55. Thomas Northern
  56. Harry Taylor Osborne
  57. Evelyn Padgett
  58. Frederick James Richards
  59. Arthur Ernest Richardson
  60. Frank L. Riley
  61. James Riley
  62. Thomas Cecil Scott
  63. H. Sha
  64. G. W. Smith
  65. Frank Stafford
  66. George Gilpin Taylor
  67. Charles Herbert Todd
  68. William Edward Todd
  69. Albert Henry Wagstaffe
  70. John William Ward
  71. George Frederick Waterhouse
  72. Arthur Webster
  73. Charles Webster
  74. William Edward Wells
  75. Ernest Robert Whilton
  76. Joseph Whittaker
  77. Evan Williams
  78. Charles Wilson
  79. Thomas Woodley
  80. John William Woolgar
  81. Thomas Nicholson Wright

These are the 15 Commonwealth War Graves in the Urban Council Cemetery:

  1. William Alec BUXTON, died 21 November 1945
  2. Victor William COLEMAN, died 06 January 1945
  3. Ernest GREEN, died 02 November 1944
  4. Frank HAYWOOD, died 08 September 1941
  5. Douglas Evelyn HILL, died 05 March 1943
  6. George MANNING, died 02 November 1944
  7. George Clifford MARRIOTT, died 14 July 1944
  8. Lawrence MILLERSHIP, died 15 December 1943
  9. Thomas READER, died 05 December 1944
  10. John Tom ROLLING, died 02 October 1939
  11. William Harry SANDERS, died 28 September 1939
  12. James SMITH, died 06 November 1918
  13. Priscilla TAYLOR, died 03 November 1942
  14. Leslie VARDY, died 24 November 1940
  15. John William WOOLGAR, died 15 June 1918
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Politics & Government

  • This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
     
  • In December, 1866, Sookholme was established as a separate Civil Parish.
     
  • In 1894 the parish formed as an Urban District Council (effectively a town council).
     
  • On 1 April, 1935, the separate Civil Parish of Sookholme was abolished and the 991 acres reabsorbed into Warsop Civil Parish.
     
  • The parish was an urban district in Nottinghamshire until 1974, when it joined the new Mansfield District Council.
     
  • You may contact the Warsop Parish (or Town) Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
     
  • Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Warsop Town Hall on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2018. The Hall is near the intersection of Church Street with Wood Street.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Mansfield District Council.
     
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

  • Bastardy cases would be heard in the Mansfield petty session hearings held at the Mansfield Police Court every week.
     
  • The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1824.
     
  • After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
     
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Population

 YearWarsopSookholme
181198463
18511,35048
18611,37452
18711,486117
18811,32935
19012,13255
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Schools

  • A Parish School was built in 1842 in Market Warsop and was enlarged in 1883 and again in 1908.
     
  • A Public School for infants was built in 1906 to hold 360 children. Average attendance in 1912 was 320.
     
  • David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Infants School in Hetts Lane on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
     
  • A fairly recent addition is The Meden School & Technology College on Burns Lane. The Meden School opened in 1965. You can find out more at the School Website.