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West Drayton

"West Drayton is a small village, township and parochial chapelry, containing 101 inhabitants and 612 acres of land, near the confluence of the rivers Maun, Wollen and Idle, on the Worksop and Tuxford Road, 2½ miles north-north-west of the latter town. This manor was anciently of the fee of Roger de Busli, and is now the property of the Duke of Newcastle, who is also lord of the manor. The church, or chapel, is a small fabric, with a turret and one bell. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued at £165, annexed to the vicarage of East Markham.
Walters' Charity. In 1688, Henry Walter bequeathed out of lands in Yorkshire, £25 per annum towards the maintenance of a school at West Drayton; £20 a year to four poor widows of ministers, to be elected by the ministers of East and West Markham and Kirton; and £3 a year to the trustees for their trouble. The master is appointed by the Duke of Newcastle, and the before-names ministers are visitors to the school, which is open to the poor of West Drayton, Bothamsall, Haughton, Elksley, Gamston, Milton and Bevercotes."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Note: There is a West Drayton parish in Middlesex as well.

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 is dedicated to Saint Paul.
  
  
• The church was restored in 1874.
  
  
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St.Paul's church on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
  
  

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Church Records

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1632.
  
  
• The church was in the rural deanery No. 2 of Retford.
  
  

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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

West Drayton is a village, a chapelry and a parish on the River Idle, 140 miles north of London, 4 miles south of Retford and 2.5 miles north-west of Tuxford. The parish covers 954 acres.

Haughton (or Haughton Park) is a hamlet and former Chapelry. It lies about 2 miles south-west of the village.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1 motorway south out of Doncaster. After you pass thru Elkesley parish, the second exit should be West Drayton.
  
• B. HILTON has a photograph of this cozy West Drayton village on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7074.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordnance 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

• The parish was in 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	Population
1801	95
1851	101
1861	96
1871	98
1881	75
1891	75
1901	90
1911	86
1921	72

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Schools

• An Endowed School was founded here near the end of the 17th century by Henry WALTER. This school also served Elkesley parish.
  
  

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