Halam

The Library at Southwell would be a good resource.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Michael the Archangel churchyard (east end) on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel.
   
• Construction on the present building clearly began in the 12th century.
   
• The church was restored during 1884-89.
   
• The Church is Grade I listed with English Heritage.
   
• The church seats 179.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Church of St. Michael the Archangel on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1560, but is illegible until about 1600. The period from 1709-1724 is incomplete.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was erected in 1896.
   

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

Halam is a village and a parish on the high road from Southwell to Mansfield. The parish is 1.5 miles west of Southwell and 10 miles south-east of Mansfield. The parish covers 1,310 acres and includes the hamlet of Radley, 1.5 miles south of Hallam village.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, you can either take the high road west out of Southwell or take the A60 north out of Nottingham city, and take the A614 north-east off of that highway, and turn right onto the B6386, pass thru Oxton and, after about a mile, turn left for Halam.
   
• There is bus service from both Nottingham and Mansfield.
   
• It is clear from Richard VINCE's Geo-graph photograph, taken in May, 2016, that the villagers need someone creative and artistically talented to creat a Village Sign for them.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

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

• A popular spot for local news is the Waggon & Horses Public House, originally built in 1752.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Waggon and Horses on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   
• These are the names associated with the Waggon & Horses in various directories:
   

• The Waggon has lost its horses. Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph or the renamed "The Waggon" on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Late 18th century Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK678544 (Lat/Lon: 53.082526, -0.98926), Halam 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 window in the church is dedicated to James Sidney STUBBS, who was killed in World War I on 21 October 1918.
   
• In the early hours of Saturday 10th April 1943 Lancaster ED823 belonging to 1661 Heavy Conversion Unit (H.C.U.) took off from RAF Winthorpe, near Newark for a night navigation training flight. At 01.25 shortly after take-off, the aircraft crashed in Halam, just off School Lane, just eight miles from the airfield.
   
• A commemorative tree was planted in the churchyard for World War II.
   
• A World War I memorial at Halam School can be seen on the Parish Council website (See Politics, below).
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the World War I memorial at Halam School on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.
   

These are the men from the parish who gave their lives in World War One (from the Halam School Memorial Plaque):

1. John BARKER
2. John CLARKE
3. Seth HURT
4. James Sidney STUBBS

These are the airmen from the Lancaster ED823 plane that crashed in Halam:

1. Flight Sergeant Leonard Wentworth LEAN, RAAF
2. Sergeant Frank DUNKIN, RAAF
3. Flying Officer Edward LAMBERT
4. Sergeant Henry Utley OXSPRING
5. Sergeant William Shearer L. GRAHAM
6. Flight Sergeant Raymond David LEWIS, RCAF
7. Sergeant William George STEPHENSON

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Southwell parish in Nottingham county. It was incorporated as a modern Civil Parish in the early 1800s.
   
• This parish was in the southern division of the county in the Thurgarton Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• You may contact the Halam Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded 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.
   
• In 1771, Mary STURTEVANT, of Newark, left about £230, a portion of which was for the poor.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1778.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   
• In 1869, William FLINT left £200, the interest from this was for the poor.
   

Year	Population
1801	284
1821	310
1841	411
1851	390
1871	327
1881	290
1901	255

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the village Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.

And Andrew BARNES has a photograph of the C of E Primary School Entrance (covered in snow) on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2010.