Welbeck
- The parish was in the Worksop sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2419 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2644 |
- Thomas de CUCKNEY founded an abbey here in 1140 of Premonstratensian canons, dedicated to St James the Great.
- The Abbey closed as a religious order in 1538.
- It was converted into a country home in the early 1600s.
- This parish is not included on the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
- The parish was in the Worksop sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
Welbeck is a village and a parish about 3.5 miles southwest of Worksop. The parish covers about 2,400 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A60 between Mansfield and Worksop.
- There is a caravan park near "Great Lake".
- Welbeck Abbey was the seat of the Duke of Portland. Much of the structure is below ground level.
- The national grid reference is SK 5674.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- During World War I the kitchen block of Welbeck Abbey was used as an army hospital.
- After World War II the Ministry of Defence leased the Abbey and used it at an army training college until 2005.
- This place was an ancient extra-parochial area in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish around 1862.
- This place was a part of the ancient parish of Cuckney.
- Thw parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake or Hundred in the northern section of the county.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1861 |
12 |
| 1871 |
49 |
| 1881 |
72 |
| 1891 |
71 |
| 1901 |
97 |
| 1911 |
104 |
| 1921 |
77 |
| 1931 |
120 |
| 1951 |
236 |
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[Last updated: 21-February-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
