Eakring
Description in 1871:
"EAKRING, a parish in Southwell district, Notts; 4 miles SSE of Ollerton, and 5½ NNW of Southwell r. station. It has a post office under Newark. Acres, 2, 497. Real property, £3, 260. Pop., 650. Houses, 139. The property is divided among three. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £480.* Patron, alternately Earl Manvers and the Earl of Scarborough. The church is ancient. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Will Scarlet, the friend of Robin Hood, is said to have resided in Eakring."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72]
- The parish was in the Kneesall sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew.
- The church was built in the Norman period.
- The church nave was widened in 1674.
- The church roof burned down in 1837, but was replaced with slate that same year.
- The church was thoroughly restored in 1881.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1626 for baptisms, 1563 for marriages, and 1621 for burials. Some of the early registers are hardly legible and are not bound together.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford.
- The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1758-1831.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1835, as did the Primitive Methodists in 1837.
- The parish was in the Kneesall sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This parish and village lie about 134 miles north of London and 6 miles north of Southwell. The parish covers almost 2,500 acres and includes the hamlet of Leyfields which is 3 miles south of Ellerton.
A small stream rises near the village and runs east to the River Trent. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A6075 arterial road northeast out of Mansfield. At Ollerton, take the A616 southeast and at Wellow turn south (right) for Eakring.
- In 1665 the plague visited this village.
- The national grid reference is SK 6663.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The name derives from the Old Scandanavian eik+hringr, meaning "ring of oak trees". It appears as Ecringhe in the 1086 Domesday Book.
[A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were formed.
- The parish was in the South Claw division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
- In 1770, Mr. FOSTER left £17 for the poor, which the overseers distributed as around 17s. yearly to each deserving poor person.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Inhabitants |
| 1851 |
710 |
| 1861 |
650 |
| 1871 |
540 |
| 1881 |
424 |
| 1891 |
390 |
| 1901 |
330 |
| 1911 |
331 |
| 1921 |
326 |
| 1931 |
643 |
| 1951 |
560 |
| 1961 |
601 |
- There was a small school here in 1853, supported by subscription.
- The local School Board built a school here in 1877 for the children of both Rufford and Eakring.
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[Last updated: 6-November-2009 - Louis R. Mills]
