Annesley

The Annesley Woodhouse Community Partnership Library is located in the Acacia Centre, Acacia Avenue (Off Forest Road). At last check, they were only open two halfdays per week.

The Library at Sutton-in-Ashfield is an excellent resource.

• The Annesley Cemetery, one acre set aside in 1872, is on Annesley Cutting near the church. It had one mortuary chapel.
   
• The cemetery was under the administration of the Burial Board of the Parish Council.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the mortuary building at Annesley Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2010.
   
• There is an Annesley Woodhouse Cemetery on Skegby Road, which opened in 1911.
   
• The Ashfield District Council has an online index to burials. Select "Burials" for a search argument.
   
• The Cemetery is administered by the Ashfield District Council.

• The parish was in the Greasly sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• The old Anglican parish church was dedicated to All Saints, reputedly founded around 1170, and was built on a hill.
   
• This church was enlarged in the 14th century.
   
• In 1912, the church is reported as "not now used."
   
• The new Anglican parish church was built in 1874 on a lofty hill.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the new All Saints Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2010.
   
• The interior of the new church was destroyed by a fire in January, 1907, but the church re-opened in 1909.
   
• The church is a grade II listed building by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
   

• The church was in the rural deanery of Bullwell.

Church/Denomination/Founded	Register	Start
All Saints (Anglican)	Baptisms Banns Marriages Burials B.T.s	1599 1754 1599 1599 1605
Wesleyan Methodist (1815)	Baptisms	1890

• In 1912, the parish had chapels for Wesleyan Methodists, Baptists and United Methodists.
   
• Phil EVANS has a photograph of the current Wesleyan Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2008.
   

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

This village and parish lie 134 miles north of London, about 11 miles north-west of Nottingham and about 4 miles south by west of Mansfield. The parish covers about 2,770 acres and includes the hamlets of Wandesley and Annesley Woodhouse. Felley used to be a chapelry in this parish but is now its own Civil Parish and reported under that name.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The village is on the A611 south out of Mansfield, not far from the #27 roundabout on the M1 motorway.
   
• Rail service to the village ceased in 1953.
   
• Stop by the Village Hall on Byron Road and check for current activities.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• A colliery opened here in 1867 giving employment to nearly 1,000 people.
   

• Annesley Hall was originally built in the 13th century, but substantially enlarged in the 17th century. It was remodeled in 1938. It stood neglected and unoccupied in 2003.
   
• Annesley Hall is a grade 2 listed building, once owned by the powerful CHAWORTH-MUSTERS family, and near the earthwork remains of Annesley Castle.
   
• Lord Byron bid "adieu" to Mary CHAWORTH at Annesley Hall. He later revealed that his life would have been very different had he married her.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK508541 (Lat/Lon: 53.081714, -1.243074), Annesley 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 the church is an Alabater tablet with the dedication: "To the glory of God in proud and grateful remembrance of all those men of Annesley who fought in the Great War 1914-1918. Especially remembering those who passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self sacrifice."  It was dedicated by Lt.-Col A. J. N. Chaworth-Musters DSO, of Annesley Hall on Sept 23rd, 1928.

The names on the War Memorial tablet are:

1. Arthur Adlard
2. Lancelot Arthur Allcock
3. Patricius George Chaworth-Musters
4. Philip Mundy Chaworth-Musters
5. Robert Chaworth-Musters
6. John Davies
7. John William Getliff
8. Henry Halford
9. Wallace Gordon Hewison
10. William Leonard Hutchinson
11. George Edward Lee
12. Samson Lines
13. Absolom Stirland
14. Sidney Stirland
15. Frank Turner
16. George Walker
17. Lewis Whitehead
18. Harry Widdowson

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in northern division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• The parish was in northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Parish Council about local politics, but they are NOT staffed to answer family history questions.
   
• District governance is provided by the Ashfield District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901
Annesley	359	341	326	335	274	239	288	1,201	1,445	1,374	1,271
Felley	33	60	71	67	41	44	33	42	31	44	41

• The village primary school is on Forest Road in Annesley Woodhouse.