Scrooby

The Nottinghamshire Mobile Library visits Scrooby area every 4th Tuesday afternoon, on Station Road. Contact the Worksop Library to request specific material.

The Library at East Retford is an excellent resource.

• The parish was in the Gringley sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
   
• There are some THEAKER surnames in this parish. Some of these are recorded in this 1901 census extract website.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• Many old Directories, like White's (below), refer to the Anglican parish church as Saint Wilfred. The currently accepted spelling is St. Wilfrid.
   
• In 1490 the church is referred to as St James in a will, and it is thought that the name St Wilfrid was given to it in the 18th century.
   
• The church dates from the late medieval period, circa 1380. This church replaced an earlier church built circa 1180.
   
• The church spire was struck by lightning in 1817 and was severely damaged. It was struck again in 1831.
   
• The church was restored in 1864.
   
• Steve FAREHAM has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• John SLATER also has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2015.
   

• The parish register dates from 1695.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Methodist Chapel in Scrooby on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   

• The parish was in the Gringley sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

The BBC tells us: "Scrooby is only a sleepy little village, but for American historians this is the place where some of the guiding principles of the US political and judicial system hail from."

If you are planning a visit:

• If traveling by car, mind the speed limits on the A638, which runs through the village. Residents of the village have complained to the local authorities and police about speeding motorists.  The police may be watching for you.
   
• Look up bus and coach services on the Carlberry website for local transportation.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Old Pinfold on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2020.
   
• This the birthplace of William BREWSTER, one of the Pilgrim Fathers, who left here in 1607 for Holland, then later went to the American colonies.
   
• Scrooby is on the Pilgrim Roots Trail, as is Babworth.
   
• The Southwell Church History Project site tells us that "Scrooby has become a place of pilgrimage, especially by American descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers."
   
• There have been some excavations of a first century house here.
   
• See the Nottinghamshire History site.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The site of Scrooby Palace on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014 .
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK651908 (Lat/Lon: 53.410006, -1.022134), Scrooby 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.

• The Scrooby War Memorial is a column which stands in the churchyard of St. Wilfrid's Church and was erected there in June, 1920.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the War Memorial on the Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.
   

These are the six names listed on the War Memorial plaque for World War One:

• The name means "Skropi's farmstead". Taken from old Scandinavian 'by', or farmstead, and 'Skropi', a person's name.
   
• The name Scrooby also appears as Scrubey.
   

You can still find online copies of the monthly newspaper for Scrooby, Torworth and Ranskill (The STAR).

• This place was long a Liberty (Southwell and Scrooby) in county Notingham.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Scrooby village hall on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014. Stop in when they are open and ask for a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• You may contact the Scrooby Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT funded to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1775.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	225
1841	297
1851	271
1871	203
1881	196
1891	219
1901	181

The Postal code for Scrooby is DN10.

A Public Elementary School (mixed) was erected here in 1907.