Nottinghamshire

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Wiverton Hall

"Wiverton Hall, formerly a fortified place, with a demesne of 1,002 acres of fine grazing and arable land, forms an extra parochial liberty, bounded on the east by the River Smite, and on the west by Tithby parish, and distant 2½ miles south of Bingham.

After the Conquest, Wiverton, or as it is commonly called Werton, was of several fees, and gave name to a resident family who became its principal owners, and gave part of it to Welbeck and Thurgarton monasteries. The whole manor subsequently passed to the Bassets, Brets and Caltofts. The heiress of the latter carried it in marriage to Sir Wm. Chaworth, in the reign of Edward III, previous to which, Thoroton says, it had become utterly depopulated, though under the date 1257 he found "many mentions in the ledger book of Thurgarton Priory, of the church of Wiverton", but he never could discover any other document to show there ever was a church here, except what referred to the domestic chapel in the house, which was there in ruins."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]

Census

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
  
  

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Civil Registration

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
  
  
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
  
  

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Directories

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
  
  

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Manors

• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of Wiverton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2005.
  
  
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Wiverton Hall showing the ground floor on Geo-graph, taken in 2011.
  
  

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Maps

• The national grid reference is SK 7136.
  
  
• You'll want an Ordinance 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

• This place was an ancient extra-parichial area in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish after 1858.
  
  
• The place was in the ancient Bingham Wapentake (Hundred) in the county.
  
  

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Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc.

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and the elevation of this area to a Civil Parish in 1858, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
  
  

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Population

Year	Population
1801	0
1851	7
1871	39
1881	18
1891	18
1901	33

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