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"Saundby is but a small village, pleasantly situated on an eminence overlooking the Trent, 3 miles south-west by west of Gainsborough, and 7/12 miles north-east of Retford. The parish, which extends to the Trent, contains 107 inhabitants and 1,330 acres of rich enclosed land, all of which belongs to Lord Middleton, the lord of the manor, except a small quantity of glebe, and 28 acres belonging to the poor of Gainsborough. At the Domesday Survey, the whole was of the Archbishop of York's soke of Laneham, except one garden, which a villein held of the soke of Mansfield, by the service of finding "salt for the King's fish in Bigrodie".
The church, which has evidently been a much larger edifice, is dedicated to St Martin. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's books at £14 8s 6d, now £101, and is in the gift of Lord Middleton, and incumbency of the Rev. Charles Walter Hudson. The rectory house is a handsome mansion, built in 1831.
Trent Port, on the west bank of the Trent, opposite to Gainsborough, contains a good inn, two large ship yards, an oil mill, and several wharfs, warehouses &c., which belong to Lord Middleton."
[WHITE's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853]
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People from Saundby are also likely buried in the Beckingham "Beecher Lane Cemetery" which is managed by the joint Parish Council with Beckingham. That cemetery did not open until 1972.
- The parish was in the Misterton sub-district in the Gainsborough Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 851 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2407 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3443 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2633 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Martin of Tours.
- The church was built before 1504, because that is the year when the tower was added.
- The church chancel was built in 1886.
- The church nave was restored in 1891.
- For photographs of the inside of St. Martin Church, see those taken by Allan BARTON on Flickr.
- J. HANNAH-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Church window depicting St Martin of Tours on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2013.
- William HENDERSON has a photograph of St. Martin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2004.
- The church is now closed for services (as of 1986) and is disused.
- The church is maintained by the Church Conservation Trust.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1568 but is missing entries from 1600 through 1662.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Retford.
- The parish was in the Misterton sub-district in the Gainsborough Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
Saundby is a small village and a parish 148 miles north of London, 7 miles north-east of East Retford and 3 miles south-wet of Gainsborough (in Lincolnshire). The River Trent provides the eastern border of the parish. In the 1800s, much of the parish was grazing land.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A620 arterial road north out of Retford. This road runs right through the village.
- Alternatively, take the A631 arterial west out of Gainsborough, turn south at the A620 interchange and you'll be in Saundby before you can get up to the speed of traffic.
- There is bus service to Saundby with a stop on the A620, but no rail service. Mat FASCIONE provides a picture of the A620 Bus Shelter on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
- For photographs of the parish, see those taken by Barbara Whiteman on Pictures of England.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Saundby to another place.
You can see the administrative areas in which Saundby has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
- In the 1800s the parish had a small ship-yard, wharves and an oil mill on the River Trent just opposite Gainsborough.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK784881 (Lat/Lon: 53.383937, -0.822768), Saundby 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.
- Saundby War Memorial for World War I consists of a brass plaque on the south wall inside St Martin’s Church.
These are the men from the parish who fell in World War One:
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- This place was an ancient parish in the county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
- You may contact the joint parish council of Beckingham and Saundby for civic or political issues, but they will NOT perform family history work for you.
- District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
Year Population 1801 100 1841 107 1851 88 1861 86 1871 98 1881 113 1891 126 1901 103 1911 101 1921 98 1931 101