Bradmore

Bradmore is served by a Mobile Library, Route 15, which serves Bradmore, Bunny, Costock, Rempstone, Widmerpool, and Wysall. The van stops on Main street on Thursday afternoons.

The Library at Nottingham would also be an excellent resource.

Various authors, "Bradmore to AD 2000," publ. by Rushcliffe Council, 2000. Limited circulation, but distributed to local libraries. Personal histories in the book stop at 1911 for privacy reasons.

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

• The Anglican parish church was built in the thirteenth century and the octagonal spire added in the fourteenth century.
   
• The Anglican parish church was destroyed by fire in the Great Fire of Bradmore in July 1705, when a large part of the village was destroyed.
   
• An earthquake damaged the spire in 1957.
   
• Nothing remains of the old church except the ruins of the tower and the spire.
   
• Richard ROGERSON has a photograph of the Bradmore Church Tower on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2010.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Bradmore Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
   
• The parishioners attend the church at Bunny.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1556.
   
• This parish is not included on the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
   
• Rod NEEP tells us that due to the 1705 fire, a lot of baptisms, marriages and burials are recorded in the Church Records of nearby Bunny parish.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Bingham (or Bingham #3 deanery).
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chapel built here on Farmer Street in 1830.
   
• Alan MURRY-RUST has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
   

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

Bradmore is both a village and a parish about 6 miles south of Nottingham city and 9 miles north of Loughborough. The parish covers 1,254 acres.

Part of Bradmore village has been declared a Conservation Area to preserve the character of the village. The hamlet of Deepdale lies about 1.5 miles north-east of the village, as does the town of Ruddington. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A60 trunk road south out of Nottingham city. The A60 bisects the village about 6 miles south of the city.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the welcoming Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.
   
• Visit the Bradmore Village website before you travel here to catch up on local "happenings".
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

"BRADMORE, a parish in Basford district, Notts; 5½ miles SE of Beeston r. station, and 7 S of Nottingham. Post Town, Bunny, under Nottingham. Acres, 1,560. Real property, £2,556. Pop., 296. Houses, 71. Many of the inhabitants are stocking-makers. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Bunny, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church was long ago burnt, and has not been rebuilt."

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

• As part of the Millennium celebrations recently, the parish decided to research all the families which have lived in the village, the houses they lived in and the names of the fields they cultivated. This document, which is now many hundreds of pages long, will be deposited in the Nottingham Record Office. (See "Bibliography" above.)
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK585312 (Lat/Lon: 52.875099, -1.132269), Bradmore 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.

A War Memorial plaque in granite, marble, stone and slate was completed in May 1920, and mounted in the Wesleyan Chapel. It has 4 names engraved on it.

There are the 4 names listed on the War Memorial plaque in the Wesleyan Chapel:

1. Richard Henry ANDERSON
2. Fred CHALLANDS
3. Thomas Bosworth COLLINS
4. Frederick JOHNSON

The Nottingham Evening Post, for 2nd July 1919, published:

" CHALLANDS. – In ever-loving memory of Sergt. Fred Challands, Bradmore, died in Military Hospital of pneumonia, July 2nd, 1918, aged 21. Too dearly loved to be forgotten. – Sorrowing mother, father, brothers, sisters. "

Details on these individuals can be found at the Nottingham War Memorials web site.

• This place was an ancient chapelry in the county of Nottingham. It became a modern Civil Parish early in the formation of those political units.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Rushcliffe Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Bradmore Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to assist with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• The parish had funds of about £8 or £9 yearly for apprenticing poor children.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1798.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	325
1841	416
1861	296
1871	267
1881	279
1891	244
1901	230
1911	199
1921	201

• The children of this parish went to school in nearby Bunny.
   
• Secondary school children now attend the South Wolds School in nearby Keyworth.