Boughton

Mick GARRATT has a photograph of St. Matthew's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 849
1861	R.G. 9 / 2473
1871	R.G. 10 / 3535
1891	R.G. 12 / 2709

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Matthew.
   
• The church was consecrated on 15 September, 1868.
   
• The exterior walls of the church were renovated in 1903.
   
• The church seats 200 people.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Matthew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2011.
   
• Mick GARRATT also has a photograph of St. Matthew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1686.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Worksop.
   
• The Baptists built a small chapel here in 1828. It was "disused" by 1903.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here in 1863.
   

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

Boughton was a village and a parish just east of Ollerton, 20 miles from Nottingham city and 118 miles north of the city of London. The River Maun runs through the north-west edge of the parish and the parish covered 1,372 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• Purched on the eastern edge of New Ollerton, the village is in an expected growth path for Ollerton.
   
• The A6075 runs through the village and can be reached off of the A1 motorway at Tuxford. Turn west.
   
• The railway line may still exist, but there has been no passenger service since 1955.
   
• The Harrow Inn on Tuxford Road provides rooms and refreshment.
   
• Two miles from the village is a deep cavity known as "Robin Hood's Cave".
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72" described Boughton as:

BOUGHTON, a parish in Southwell district, Notts; 2 miles NE of Ollerton, and 6 SW by W of Tuxford r. station. Post Town, Ollerton, under Newark. Acres, 1,372. Real property, £1,976. Pop., 390. Houses, 91. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln; and till 1866 was annexed to Kneesall. Value, £250. Patron, Southwell church. There are two dissenting chapels.

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

You can see the administrative areas in which Boughton has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.

• This used to be a large hop-growing area, but at last report only an acre of hops could be found here.
   
• In 1812, a bridge was built over the River Maun.
   
• Jonathan THACKER. has a photograph of The Harrow Inn just off the A6075 on Geograph, taken in December, 2015.
   
• J. THOMAS also has a photograph of The Harrow Inn on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.
   
• These are the names associated with the Harrow Inn in older directories:
   

Year	Person
1896	-- not listed --
1904	Thomas Wm. THOMPSON

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK676686 (Lat/Lon: 53.210175, -0.989254), Boughton which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
• Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
• 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.

A Roll of Honour appears on a mounted plaque in St. Matthew's Church. It includes one man killed in World War One.

The one man killed in World War I was Private Cooling Henry REAVILL, 9th Btln. The Loyal North Lancashire Regt., died 08 Jun 1917, age 32. Husband of Sarah Jane REAVILL.

You can view the plaque at the Nottinghamshire War Memorials site. The names are readable.

The parish appears in the 1086 Domesday Book rendered as "Buchetone".

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Nottinghamshire until it became a parish in 1535.
   
• The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• This Civil Parish merged with Ollerton in 1996 to form the Ollerton and Boughton Civil Parish.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the Village Hall on the east side of the village on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016. Stop by when the facility is open and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• You may contact the Ollerton and Boughton Town Council regarding civic and political matters, but they CANNOT do family history lookups for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• Mrs. FROGSON left the interest on £100 to be distributed to poor widows on Christmas day.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.

The population of this parish exploded with the growth of Ollerton in the late 1920s and since then has been over 1,200 every census.

Year	Population
1801	190
1811	217
1821	289
1851	398
1871	344
1881	296
1891	286
1901	210
1911	269
1921	315
1931	1,318

• A National School was built here for 70 children in 1861 by William John PICKIN.
   
• St. Joseph's Catholic School also operates in the parish on the Main road.