Aslocton

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The Community Library at Bingham is an excellent nearby resource.

• The Aslocton Cemetery in Mill Lane was opened in the year 1869, covering one acre and one rood.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of St. Thomas's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.

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

• The old chapelry was dedicated to Saint John of Jerusalem, but that chapel was in ruins in the 1800s.
   
• The church is dedicated to Saint Thomas.
   
• The church was built between 1890 and 1892.
   
• The church is a grade 2 listed building by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
   
• The east window is dedicated to Thomas CRANMER. It depicts Jesus showing his hands to Doubting Thomas.
   
• Bob DANYLEC has a photograph of Saint Thomas Chapel on Geograph, taken in November, 2005.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of St. Thomas Church on Geograph, taken in July, 2011.
   

• This place was formerly a chapelry attached to Whatton, but the chapel was long in ruins by 1881.
   
• The Anglican parish register dates from 1538 and would likely be under Whatton parish.
   
• This parish is not included on the International Genealogical Index (IGI).
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel here by 1869. This has since been converted to flats.
   

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

This village, township and parish are about 116 miles north of London, 2.5 miles east-by-north of Bingham and 12 miles due east of Nottingham. The River Smite passes through the parish. The parish covers 1,191 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is just north off of the A52 trunk road, heading east out of Nottingham.
   
• Alan MURRY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geograph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Thomas Cranmer Centre on Geograph, taken in July, 2011. Stop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the former railway station buildings on the south edge of the village on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• Tim GLOVER also has a photograph of Aslockton station on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2003.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Doctor Thomas CRANMER, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born here on 2 July, 1480. He was Archbishop of Canterbury in the time of Henry VIII and principal author of the Book of Common Prayer. A few years after Cranmer died in 1556 the medieval chapel-of-ease dedicated to Holy Trinity in the village was converted to domestic use and from then on the inhabitants had to attend the church at Whatton.
   
• The Old Greyhound Public House has been a feature in the parish for over two centuries.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Old Greyhound Pub on Geograph, taken in July, 2011.
   
• The Cranmer Arms Public House has also been a likely place to hear loacl stories.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Cranmer Arms Pub on Geograph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the Thomas Cranmer Centre on Geograph, also taken in April, 2014.
   

• In 1881, the old Manor House stood on a farm belonging to Mr. John HUTCHINSON of Bingham.
   
• Aslocton Hall has been converted to a nursing and residential home for the elderly.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK742406 (Lat/Lon: 52.957958, -0.897392), Aslocton 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.

There is a plain wooden War Memorial plaque in the church. It records no names:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY
THE PEOPLE OF ASLOCKTON
IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN AND
WOMEN OF THIS VILLAGE WHO SERVED
THEIR COUNTRY IN THE TWO WORLD
WARS. SOME DIED IN THE DOING.

THE LIFE AND FREEDOM OF THIS
VILLAGE IS THEIR MEMORIAL

1914-1918    17TH JANUARY 1954    1939-1945

• Samuel MORLEY of Aslocton won the Victoria Cross while serving in the 2nd Btln., Royal Army Service Corps in India in 1858. The award was given to him in 1860. Morley died at age 58, on 16 June 1888 in Nottingham.
   
• For a photograph and the list of names on the War Memorial plaque in St Thomas Church see the Nottinghamshire County Council site. There are no names on the memorial plaque.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission reports one casualty from World War I, but he is not buried in the local cemetery:

• Harold Frederick STEVENS, lance corp., 122nd co. Machine Gun Corps, age 21, died 31 July 1917. Son of Sarah M. STEVENS.

The village name is often spelled as "Aslocton", "Aslokton" or "Aslacton".

• This place was an ancient chapelry and township in Scarrington parish in Nottingham county, but became a modern Civil Parish in December of 1866.
   
• This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• Several sources place the parish in the Bingham Hundred.
   
• You may contact the local Aslockton Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a phtograph of the Village Hall in the Cranmer Center on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• In 1825, Mr. John MARRIOTT established a charity to pay 20 shillings each year to distribute bread to the poor on Christmas day. There is a plaque in the church that records this charity:

  EDWARD AND MARIA MARRIOTT
  CHARITY
  THE INTEREST ON ONE HUNDRED
  POUNDS HELD BY THE DIOCESAN
  FINANCE ASSOCIATION IS SPENT
  YEARLY BY THE VICAR AND HIS WARDEN
  ON THE NECESSITOUS PERSONS
  WHO ATTEND THIS CHURCH

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Whatton	Aslocton
1801	308	171
1841	-	410
1851	404	360
1871	-	407
1881	283	404
1891	-	358
1901	253	372

• The children of this place attended school in Scarrington parish.
   

• The Cranmer Local History Group has some online resources to help you with your search.