Bilsthorpe

At last check, this library was only open three days per week:

• Bilsthorpe Library
• The Crescent
• Bilsthorpe, Newark, Notts, NG22 8QX
• Tele: 01623 870 216

The Library at Newark-on-Trent will prove useful in your research.

Alternatively, the Library at Mansfield might be moe convenient.

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

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Margaret.
   
• The church was built in the 14th century.
   
• It is believed, but not documented, that the present church is the successor to an older Norman building.
   
• The church tower, which has three bells, appears to have been built in 1663.
   
• The church was restored in 1873.
   
• A clock was added to the church tower in 1899.
   
• The church seats 1003.
   
• The church is a Grade I structure with British Heritage.
   
• Dr. Margaret SIMMS has taken a photograph of the St. Margaret Church Steps and placed it on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Margaret Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.
   
• A second Anglican Church was built in a new village just north of Bilsthorpe village to serve a new coal mining effort in October, 1932. This church was dedicated to St. Luke.
   
• St. Luke's Church was abandoned in 1939. The Bilsthorpe Miners' Welfare building was subsequently built on the site.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1654 and the early portions are indistinct.
   
• We have a list of marriages extracted from the parish register.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   

• The parish was in the Kneesal sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This village and parish are about 5 miles south of Ollerton, 7 miles south-east of Mansfield and 5 miles north-west of Southwell. The parish covers 1,540 acres.

The village colliery closed in 1997. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is just north off of the A52 trunk road, heading east out of Nottingham.
   
• Local bus service is by Stagecoach, with links to Ollerton and Nottingham.
   
• There is a bicycle track just north of the village that crosses the disused rail line.
   
• Roger GEACH has a photograph of Maid Marian Avenue on.Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011. This avenue runs east and west. That green area you see is the recreation ground.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bilsthorpe to another place.

• A great part of the village was burnt down in 1726, and by a Latin inscription on Mrs OUTRAM's house, we are informed that it was restored from the ashes of the fire by Elizabeth BROUGHTON.
   
• For centuries, this was a quiet, agricultural village. Then in the 1920, the collieries opened and the village quickly grew.
   
• The is a memorial to the miners who died in Bilsthorpe Pit between 1927 and 1997 (76 men and one woman). The Bilsthorpe memorial was unveiled by Patricia JENNINGS, whose uncle died in the first disaster, and Paul SMITH, a miner who survived a later disaster.
   
• For several decades St. John's Ambulance Service had a district headquarters here. Steve FAREHAM has a photograph of the building on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK652602 (Lat/Lon: 53.134978, -1.026894), Bilsthorpe which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Tom COURTNEY has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2005. Alas, it does not reveal the names on the monument.
   
• Steve FAREHAM also has a photograph of the same War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2015.
   
• There are two War Memorial plaques inside St. Margaret's Church. One for the men who fell in World War One and one for the men who fell in World War II.
   

There are two brass plaques in the church. You can read the inscriptions at the Southwell Churches History Project site.

There are four names on the War Memorial for WWI. They are for:

There are the men from World War II on the second plaque in the parish church:

1. Samuel CAPEWELL
2. George V. HALLAM
3. George HATTON
4. Stanley MELLORS
5. G. MENDHAM
6. Lionel OLIVER
7. J. RICHARDS
8. R. SPENCER
9. H. STEELE
10. Frederick Norman STORER
11. George THORPE
12. Ernest TODHUNTER

The plaque was donated by the Bilsthorpe branch of the Royal British Legion.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county, and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the South Clay division of the Bassetlaw Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Bilsthorpe Parish Council regarding civil or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Southwell petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	201
1811	212
1841	244
1851	217
1861	197
1871	191
1881	194
1901	120

• The web-page author could find no mention of a school prior to 1881.
   
• In 1912, the children of this parish attended schools in Farnsfield and Eakring parishes.
   
• There was a Bilsthorpe Junior School on the Compton Road in the parish, but it closed in 1996.