Stubton

• The parish was in the Claypole sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The present Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Martin.
   
• The church dates back to at least the 15th Century.
   
• The church was completely rebuilt in 1800.
   
• A photograph of St. Martin's Church is at the Wendy PARKINSON English Church Photographs site.
   
• Here is a photo of St. Martin's Church, taken by Ron COLE (who retains the copyright):

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1577 and Bishop's transcripts from 1562.
   
• The LFHS has published several indexes for the Loveden Deanery to make your search easier.
   
• Parish registers are now on file at the Society of Genealogists, covering 1562 - 1837.
   
• Stubton marriages are in Boyd's Marriage Index, covering 1651 - 1837 and Pallot's Marriage Index, covering 1790 - 1837.
   
• The Lincolnshire FHS has a Loan Library service which has the parish registers on microfiche for Baptisms and Marriages from 1578 to 1812.
   
• Check our Church Records page for county-wide resources.
   

• The parish was in the Claypole sub-district of the Newark Registration District.
   
• Check our Civil Registration page for sources and background on Civil Registration which started in July, 1837.
   

This village and parish lies between the A1 and A17 motorways 6 miles south-east of Newark. Largely rural, the parish covers over 1,100 acres and several tributaries of the Witham and Brant Rivers have their sources within its boundaries. Claypole parish lies to the west and Fenton parish to the north.

The village of Stubton is only six miles southeast of Newark-on-Trent, about 20 miles south-west of the city of Lincoln and one mile east of Claypole. If you are planning a visit:

• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010. You should stop by and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• Visit our touring page for more sources.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Check the history of the Wapentake at the Loveden Wapentake website.

• In 1870, George NEVILE owned almost all of the land in the parish and resided at Stubton Hall. Prior to him, Sir Robert HERON, baronet, was the owner of the estate. In the early 1900's, Sir Ralph Henry Sacheverel WILMOT, baronet, was owner of Stubton Hall and most of the land around it. The hall was unoccupied by 1913.

• Stubton Hall  is a relatively modern mansion of white brick.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK874489 (Lat/Lon: 53.02991, -0.698748), Stubton 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 name Stubton is from the Old English stubb+ton, for "farmstead where there are tree-stumps". In the 1086 Domesday Book it first appears as Stubetune.
  [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991]

• This place was an ancient parish in Lincoln county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Loveden Wapentake in the South Kesteven division of the county, in the parts of Kesteven.
   
• For today's district governance, contact the South Kesteven District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Spittlegate (Grantham) petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	118
1841	170
1871	169
1881	132
1891	127
1911	117

• In 1855 a National School was erected here to hold 36 children.
• For more on researching school records, see our Schools Research page.