Winkburn

The Library at Newark will prove useful in your research.

• 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 St. John of Jerusalem.
   
• The church was built in the 12th century.
   
• The church tower was rebuilt in the 17th century.
   
• The church seats 130.
   
• From 1199 to 1832 there was a cell of the Knights Hospitaller based here.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
   
• Chris MORGAN also has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016. He includes a little history in the description.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1546.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   
• Some extracted baptism records can be found at Nottinghamshire History
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1814.
   

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

The Great War Bulletin for November 23rd, 1914; tells us that William FLETCHER of Nottingham was imprisoned for a month with hard labour for poaching on the Winkburn Hall land of retired Colonel Edward Strelley Pegge BURNELL, aged 78.

This parish and village lie 4 miles north of Southwell and 8 miles north-west of Newark. Eakring lies to the north-west. The parish covers almost 2,400 acres and includes several mineral springs. The Wink beck passes just to the north-east of the village.

The village sits on a small rise over the surrounding countryside. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A617 west out of Newark toward Ollerton. Just past Hockerton there will be turnoff to the right (north) to Winkburn.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of one of the bridges over the Wink on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Burnell Arms, a former pub., on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016. It is now a private residence.

These are the names associated with the Burnell Arms P. H. in various directories:

• Winkburn Hall is near the east end of the village and overlooks the Wink River.
   
• Winkburn Hall was the residence of Col. Edward Strelley PEGGE-BURNELL in 1881 and 1904.
   
• Peter WORRELL has a photograph of Winkburn Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009.
   
• Chris MORGAN also has a photograph of Winkburn Hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2016.
   
• Steven RICHARDS provides a close-up of Winkburn Hall on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2003.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK712583 (Lat/Lon: 53.117136, -0.937648), Winkburn 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.

In 1904 and 1912, this parish was the residence of Col. Edward Strelly PEGGE-BURNELL of the Coldstream Guards. The Colonel was born in 1835 and died on 22 Nov 1924.

The Colonel was the principal landowner of Beauchief parish in Derbyshire.

In the 1911 census, the Colonel was listed as residing at Winburn Hall, age 75, male, single, with 5 servants. His birth is circa 1835 at Winthorpe, Notts,

The Nottingham Archives has an extensive collection of Pegge-Burnell papers under the reference DD/CW/8c/5.

In the parish church on the north side of the chancel is a brass tablet to the memory of Colonel Hugh D'Arcy PEGGE-BURNELL of the 7th Hussars dated 1883.

Priv. Harry H. WOODCOCK, 8th Bn Leicestershire Regiment, age 24, died 15 Jul 1916. Son of the late George and Emma WOODCOCK.

• The name "Winkburn" also appears in old records as "Winkbourn" and "Winkbourne". The name derives from the stream that passes through the parish.
   

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and, instead, hold periodic Parish Meetings for all to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council since 1974.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Southwell petty session hearings on alternate Fridays.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	153
1831	134
1851	129
1861	172
1871	142
1881	132
1891	115
1901	103
1911	93
1921	104
1931	90

• A Free School was built here in 1738 by the BURNELL family.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Old School on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.
   
• In 1904 average attendance at the school was 22. Mrs. Annie GOODALL was the schoolmistress.