Whatton

The Community Library at Bingham is an excellent resource.

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

• There is no church or priest mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John of Beverley.
   
• The date of original construction is unreported, but believed to be mid-12th century.
   
• The church and tower were extensively repaired in 1807. In 1808 the south transept was pulled down and the south aisle rebuilt.
   
• The church nave and tower were rebuilt in 1870-71.
   
• The church seats 350.
   
• Thomas CRANMER, Archibishop of Canterbury, author of the Book of Prayer, worshiped here and his father is buried here.
   
• There is a photograph of St. John's Church at Panoramio.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538 and is in good condition. Entries from 1597 to 1662 are lost.
   
• In 1904 the marriage registers were edited by W. P. W. PHILLIMORE and J. WARD and were published by the Parish Register Society.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1825 and a larger chapel in 1846.
   

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe upon Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Whatton (HM Prison) opened at the west end of the village in 1960 as a detention centre. Since 1990 it has been a Category C closed male prison for sex offenders.

Whatton is a township, a village and a parish on the south bank of the River Smite about 117 miles north of London, 2.5 miles east of Bingham, 12 miles south-by-west of Newark-on-Trent and 11 miles west of Grantham in Lincolnshire. The parish covers 1,760 acres.

HM Prison at Whatton is located in the village. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road out of Nottingham or Grantham. Whatton will be two miles east of the A46 trunk road intersection.
   
• Kevin FUTTER has a photograph of Whatton Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007. You should stop by and get a schedule of forth-coming events and ask about renting the Hall for your family re-union!
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• The Manor House was built in 1841.
   
• The Manor House is a short distance from the village and was the residence of Mrs. Dickenson HALL, lady of the manor, in 1881.
   
• In 1904 the Manor House was the residence of Captain Montagu Haffenden HALL.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK743387 (Lat/Lon: 52.940774, -0.896569), Whatton 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.

• Around 1920 a Roll of Honour in a molded frame was placed inside the church.
   
• The First World War Memorial is at the eastern end of the south wall of the south transept. It is a rectangular architecturally framed tablet. It is flanked by columns supporting a pediment with a crucifix in the apex of the tympanum. The tablet and columns rest on a shelf with brackets and apron.
   
• The Second World War Memorial is at the back of a table in the nave. It is a metal plaque with blue incised Roman lettering.

There are three War Memorial plaques in the church. To see the list of names on them, see the Southwell Church History Project site.

The names on the snaller WWI memorial are (all deceased):

1. Greasley, Ernest John
2. Sears, Gerald Richard
3. White, George Edward

The 1086 Domesday Book list the name was Watone.

• This place was an ancient parish in the county of Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the southern division of the county in the Bingham Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• You may contact the local Whatton-in-the-Vale Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1790.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Whatton	Aslacton
1801	308	171
1821	390
1851	404	360
1861	353	410
1871	360
1881	283
1891	281
1901	253	372
1911	250

• A Church of England School was built here before 1853. Prior to that year, school had been held in the church.