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- The parish was in the Worksop sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 852 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2419 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 3460 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2644 |
- Welbeck Abbey was a monestery of Premonstration canons. The Abbey was founded in 1140.
- The Abbey was converted to a country house after the Dissolution (1539) and became a seat of the CAVENDISH family in the 17th century.
- If you visit the Abbey, ask about the tunnels.
- David PICKERSGILL has a photograph of Welbeck Abbey on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
- The webpage author could find no record of an Anglican parish church here.
- This parish is not included on the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
- People from this parish attended, married, baptised, etc. at St. Mary's Church, Cuckney.
- The parish was in the Worksop sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
- Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
Welbeck is a village and a parish about 3.5 miles south-west of Worksop. The parish covers about 2,400 acres.
If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A60 between Mansfield and Worksop.
- There is a caravan park near "Great Lake".
- We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Welbeck to another place.
You can see the administrative areas in which Welbeck has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
- Welbeck Abbey was the seat of the Duke of Portland. Much of the structure is below ground level.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK564742 (Lat/Lon: 53.261811, -1.155945), Welbeck 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.
- After the Second World War, Welbeck House was leased to the Ministry of Defense and operated as "Welbeck College," an army training college until 2005.
- This place was an ancient extra-parochial area in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish around 1862.
- This place was a part of the ancient parish of Cuckney.
- The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake or Hundred in the northern section of the county.
- District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Worksop petty session hearings.
- As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.