Beeston

David LALLY has a photograph of the Beeston Library on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.

The Beeston Library in Foster Avenue is normally open six days each week and has a Local History Collection that you may find very useful.

The nearby Library at Nottingham will also prove useful in your research.

• Tony BURTON tells us: "There was a graveyard around Beeston Parish Church which we used to walk through on our way to school - and also a Cemetery on the north side of Beeston off Wollaton Road."
   
• John MELLORS advises: "By an order in council dated 1888 all burials in Beeston Parish Church churchyard except in such wholly walled graves now existing in the said churchyard every coffin buried therein must be separately enclosed by stonework or brickwork properly cemented. The entries following unless otherwise specified all relate to burials in the consecrated portion of Beeston Parish Cemetery conducted by the parochial clergy. A portion of the cemetery was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Southwell on 20 Mar 1888."
   
• Peter SHONE has a photograph of the Cemetery and burial chapel on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.

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

• The original church here was built in the 11th century.
   
• The old Anglican parish church of Saint John the Baptist was partially pulled down in 1842 and rebuilt. The new church was consecrated on 5 Sept. 1844.
   
• The church has its own Beeston Church website with an excellent interior photograph.
   
• The church was lit with gas in 1857.
   
• The churchyard was closed to new burial plots in 1888.
   
• The church seats 700.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of the parish church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a different perspective of St. John the Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2013.
   

• Anglican parish registers exist from 1553.
   
• Check out David Hallam's Beeston Village website for his files on family history and church records. To contact him vie e-mail, send your e-mail to David Hallam.
   
• A Methodist church was built here in 1902.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of the Methodist church in Stilwell Road on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Catholic Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2008. This Catholic chapel is dedicated to Saint Peter.
   

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

The town lies 123 miles north of London and 4 miles west-south-west of Nottingham. The River Trent runs through the parish, just south of the town. The parish covers about 1,600 acres.

The village is normally regarded as a suburb of Nottingham. If you are planning a visit:

• Check out David HALLAM's Beeston Village website.
   
• By automobile the A52 runs through the very northern part of the village and the A6005 arterial off the M1 at junction 25 runs through the heart of the village.
   
• By rail, the Midlands Counties Railway which opened on 30 May 1839 provides service to Beeston station.
   
• Nottingham city provides daily bus service as well.
   
• David LALLY provides a picture of the new, modernized Beeston Square on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• In the early 1800s Beeston was known as a silk weaving centre.
   
• In 1831 the only silk mill in town was burned to the ground during the Reform Riots (the Luddites). In the 1880s, the replacement mill employed over 500 workers.
   
• By 1881 the town had a railway station on the Midland Railway, situated on Pasture Lane. At that time, about 78 trains passed through the station daily.
   
• In 1892, the Anglo-Scotian Mills Lace factory was built on Abbey road. Chris ALLEN has a photograph of the Anglo-Scotian Mill on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2001.
   
• In 1901 the National Telephone Company built a factory here to manufacture telephone equipment.
   
• In September 1909 the 17th Nottingham Boys' Brigade began meeting in a room at the Anglo-Scotian Mills. This Boys' Scouting group continues to meet now at the Pearson Centre for Young People. The 30th Nottingham Girls' Brigade also meets here.
   
• Ian CALDERWOOD provides a picture of The pavilion in the Hetley Pearson Recreation Ground on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2017. This is where the Boys and Girls meet.
   
• Beeston is noted for being the home of William Abednego THOMPSON (1811 to 1880), a famous bare-knuckle boxer. His nickname became "Bendigo" because of his habit of bobbing and weaving as he moved around the ring. Although born in Sneinton, Bendigo retired to Beeston where he died after falling down stairs in his house at age 69.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of The Malt Shovel pub. on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2021.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of The Chequers Inn on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2020.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK527367 (Lat/Lon: 52.925134, -1.217544), Beeston 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.

• David LALLY has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2009.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has another perspective of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2020. This building was dedicated on 3 May 1924 to the 30 men lost in World War I.
   
• David LALLY also has a photograph of the Crimean War Memorial outside the parish church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Crimean War Memorial plaque on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• Steven CRAVEN also has a photograph of the Crimean War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2020. He notes that it has a plaque dedicated to Sgt. W. JOWETT who died in 1856.

Some individuals appear on more than one war Memorial.

• These are the names on the Beeston St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, as given by the Nottingham County Council site. The memorial consists of five bronze plaques set into carved wooden ogee arches in the organ sconce.

1. Phillip Abell
2. John William Aby
3. Frederick Adcock
4. Walter Russell Frank Adcock
5. Percy Douglas Alsop
6. William Aram
7. Fred Barrett Armitage
8. Sidney Robert Armitage
9. Harry Ashton
10. Clarence Henry Austin
11. Samuel R. Bagshaw
12. Harold Bailey
13. Albert Ernest Barker
14. Reginald Horace Barker
15. Arthur Edward Barnes
16. Clarence Edward Barnes
17. Harry Barnes
18. William Edward Barsby
19. William Edward Bates
20. William Sydney Baxter
21. Robert Heald Beckett
22. Thomas Henry Belfield
23. Harold George Bennett
24. John William Bettle
25. Percy Douglas Bettle
26. Arthur Edward Blacknell
27. Horace Arthur Blackwell
28. Arthur Joyce Blagdurn
29. Sydney Storer Boot
30. Samuel Gilbert Booth
31. Wilfred Frank Booth
32. Alfred Sydney Bostock
33. Percival Bowlzer
34. George Brackner
35. John William Brackner
36. William Brackner
37. Benjamin Brewer
38. Harry Brewster
39. Howard Charlton Brown
40. William Charles Brown
41. John Robert Bruce
42. Harold Buckingham
43. Thomas Henry Buckley
44. Samuel Burdett
45. Fred Bust
46. Enoch Bywater
47. John Robert Bywater
48. William Henry Bywater
49. John Robert Calcraft
50. Ernest Edward Calladine
51. Alfred Harold Calvert
52. John Calvert
53. Thomas H. Calvert
54. Joseph Stanley Castledine
55. William Chalk
56. Thomas Walter Church
57. Edgar Clark
58. William Clarke
59. Arthur Ernest Clarke
60. Thomas Clark
61. Alfred Ernest Clifford
62. John Robert Clifford
63. Percy Cordo
64. Joseph Corthorn
65. Harry Coulson
66. John Thomas Cowlishaw
67. Francis Henry Cox
68. John Cox
69. John Arthur Cox
70. John Robert Cox
71. George Coxon
72. James Coxon
73. John Morley Crampton
74. Henry Croom
75. Albert Cudworth
76. Horace George Cudworth
77. John Cudworth
78. Albert O. Dawn
79. Charles Dean
80. George Alfred Dean
81. Harry Dewey
82. Charles Thomas Dixon
83. Alfred Frederick Otterbine Dobson
84. Robert James Draycott
85. Arthur Ellis
86. Claude William Fisher
87. Henry Foster
88. Frederick Donald Fox
89. George Foxall
90. Alfred Franklin
91. Samuel Freeman
92. Arthur Percy Frettingham
93. Charles C. Garner
94. George Arthur Gimson
95. Thomas Glover
96. George Goodall
97. Samuel Goodall
98. Luke Goodband
99. Richard Gosling
100. Charles Edward Green
101. Joseph Greening
102. Andrew Victor Guy
103. William Henry Haddon
104. Percy Haddon
105. James Hallam
106. William Hancox
107. Leslie Hewitt Hardstaff
108. Enoch Henry Harper
109. Frank Harper
110. Harry Harper
111. Horace Hartshorn
112. Samuel Leonard Hartshorn
113. Arthur Hayes
114. Claude Edward Hayes
115. Clarence Hazzledine
116. Francis Hazzledine
117. George Hazzledine
118. Harold Hazzledine
119. John Hodgkinson
120. Lot Hodgkinson
121. Joseph R. Hogg
122. Ernest Holland
123. Ernest Hollingsworth
124. Herbert Arthur Holloway
125. Arnold Holmes
126. Herbert Horne
127. Leonard Hoult
128. Henry Hudston
129. William Dann Humphreys
130. Frederick Hunt
131. Arthur William Jackson
132. Cecil Samuel Jackson
133. Evelyn Arthur Jackson
134. William Robert Jackson
135. William Harold Jackson
136. William Henry Jackson
137. Ernest Edward Jarrett
138. Frank Arnold Jebbett
139. Horace Edgar Jeffries
140. George Ethelred Jenoure
141. Frank Arnold Johnson
142. John Henry Johnson
143. James Kerry
144. Thomas Branson Knowles
145. E. Lambert
146. Ewart Reginald Lanes
147. John Dalby Lawton
148. Thomas Lawton
149. Harry Lea
150. John Brazier Lea
151. Albert Lee
152. Frank Lee
153. Harold Lee
154. George William Letting
155. Walter Lewis
156. Bertie Mark Limb
157. Frederick William Lowe
158. Eric Geoffrey Luntley
159. Harry Manley
160. Robert Manley
161. Maurice Charles Mansfield
162. James Martin
163. Albert Edward Mee
164. John Moodie
165. George Henry Newbutt Moore
166. Wilfred Leslie Mosley
167. H. Morton
168. Arthur James Newton
169. George Henry Newton
170. Arthur Nicholls
171. Albert Samuel Oldham
172. Frank Oldham
173. George Oldham
174. John Oldham
175. Walter Oldham
176. William Wilmot Oldham
177. Ernest Orchard
178. Albert Edward Osborne
179. Alfred Percival Page
180. Fred Paling
181. Arthur Henry Parker
182. Frank Parkes
183. Morris Edward Pass
184. Thomas Peach
185. Percy Hewitt Peadon
186. Richard Robert Pearce
187. Stephen Hetley Pearson
188. William Lawrence Pearson
189. George Albert Pembleton
190. William Phillips
191. Frederick William Piggin
192. Frank William Val Pilmore
193. Percy Pilmore
194. Claude Archibald Porter
195. Alfred William Preston
196. Sidney Levers Price
197. Ernest Pridmore
198. Henry Edmund Priestley
199. Charles Prowett
200. Charles Deschamps Randall
201. George Samuel Gaunt Richardson
202. Thomas William Riley
203. Herbert Healey Robinson
204. Percival Robinson
205. Sidney Pearson Robinson
206. Sydney Robinson
207. William Robotham
208. Wilfred Rogers
209. Maurice Rooms
210. Frank Alan Rothera
211. George John Rowland
212. Arthur Charles Russell
213. Harry Edward Ryall
214. William Charles Ryall
215. Walter James Saunders
216. John Francis Scott
217. George William Searson
218. Fred Sewell
219. Ernest George William Sharp
220. William Shrewsbury Sharpe
221. Alfred Nathan Sibley
222. Edward Marshall Singleton
223. Charles Slack
224. Arthur Matthew Smedley
225. Archibald Benjamin Smith
226. A. E. M. Smith
227. Benjamin M. Smith
228. Charles Albert Smith
229. P. Smith
230. Wilfrid Smith
231. Vincent Joseph Solloway
232. Thomas William Sparrow
233. John Edgar Spencer
234. Gervase Thorpe Spendlove
235. Bernard Henry Spray
236. John George Stafford
237. Bernard Greig Stark
238. Garnet Stenson
239. Thomas William Stevens
240. John Stevenson
241. George Rowland Straw
242. Charles Claude Sturt
243. George Ernest Sutton
244. Thomas Frederick Sweeney
245. Oliver Tailby
246. E. O. Taylor
247. Albert Tebbutt
248. Charles Tebbutt
249. Harry Tebbutt
250. William Thomas Tebbutt
251. John Thorley
252. William Hugh Thornhill
253. Charles Howard Thorpe
254. Ernest Samuel Tonks
255. George Henry Towle
256. Reginald Ernest Trease
257. Percy Turner
258. Albert Edward Turton
259. Cyril Arthur Turton
260. John Samuel Turton
261. William Thomas Turton
262. Guy Luntley Tutin
263. William Wallis
264. Harold Henry Walton
265. Harry Ward
266. Joseph Thomas Watts
267. Leonard George Lewis Webb
268. Joseph William West
269. Charles Henry Whadcoat
270. Arnold Wheatley
271. Walter George Wilkins
272. James Frederic Williams
273. Arthur E. Wright

• These are the names on the Beeston Chilwell Road Methodist War Memorial, as given by the Nottingham County Council site.

1. Benjamin Brewer
2. John Robert Calcraft
3. Herbert Horne
4. Wiliam Addison Lake
5. Ewart Reginald Lanes
6. Albert Edward Mee
7. Albert Edward Osborn
8. Thomas Peach
9. Frank William Val Pilmore
10. Ernest Pridmore
11. Wilfred A. Rogers
12. Arthur Matthew Smedley
13. Benjamin Smith
14. Adam Torrance
15. Cyril Arthur Turton

• These are the names on the Beeston Constitutional Club War Memorial, as given by the Nottingham County Council site.

1. Fred Barrett Armitage
2. Robert Heald Beckett
3. Arthur James Newton
4. Charles Deschamps Randall
5. Oliver Tailby

• These are the names on the Beeston Lads Club (WWI) War Memorial, as given by the Nottingham County Council site.

1. Harry Ashton
2. William Edward Barsby
3. Percy Douglas Bettle
4. Wilfred Frank Booth
5. George Brackner
6. William Brackner
7. Samuel H. Burdett
8. L. Coxon
9. Harry Foxall
10. George Arthur Gimson
11. Thomas Glover
12. B. Goodhall
13. Harry Harper
14. L. Hartshorn
15. Francis Hazzledine
16. Harold Hazzledine
17. Ernest Holland
18. William Dann Humphreys
19. C. Huntley
20. William Robert Jackson
21. John Brazier Lea
22. James Martin
23. Stephen Hetley Pearson
24. Frank William Val Pilmore
25. Percy Pilmore
26. Bernard Poules
27. Thomas William Riley
28. Harry Edward Ryall
29. Alfred Nathan Sibley
30. Benjamin Smith
31. Bernard Henry Spray
32. Thomas Frederick Sweeney
33. Albert E. Tebbutt
34. A. Tonks
35. Albert Edward Turton
36. Cyril Arthur Turton
37. Arnold Wheatley

• These are the names on the St. John's Sunday School War Memorial plaque (WWI), as given by the Nottingham County Council site.

1. Howard Charlton BROWN
2. Frederick Donald FOX
3. Frank Herbert FOX
4. Percy Hewitt PEADON

Ernest HAYES (1898–1938): was a three-time Military Medal winner in the First World War, died in Beeston.

The earliest recorded name given to the area was Bestune. It appears as such in the 1086 Domesday Book.

There is also a village of Beeston which is a suburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire. Make sure that you are researching in the correct place.

In 1881 there was a Beeston Childrens' Orphan Home on Broughton Road. It moved, in 1882, to Imperial Road. In 1943 it became an Adoption Society and changed the name to The Children's Homes, Beeston. In 1949 the facility became the Silverwood Hostel.

There appears to be some confusion about the above facility. It was "gifted" to the city of Nottingham, but they claim to have no record of that transaction and claim that the facility belongs to Nottingham county, who also do not have a record of such transaction. BEWARE of government agencies bearing gifts!

• This place was an ancient parish of Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• In 1935 the Civil Parish of Beeston was abolished and an area of 1,428 acres and 14,759 people were amalgamated to create Beeston with Stapleford Civil Parish.
   
• The remaining 173 acres and 1,256 people were amalgamated into Nottingham Civil Parish.
   
• The parish is currently governed as wards in the Broxtowe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• Beeston had its own workhouse for the poor by 1775. This was operated under the Poor Law statute of 1601. When the Gilbert Act was passed in 1782, this workhouse became a poor house for the elderly and infirm poor. Working or able-bodied poor were denied entrance. The web-page author does not know the history of this facility.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here by an Act passed in 1809. Parts of Bramcote Moor were enclosed in 1847.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   
• Four Almshouses were built in 1897 in Broughton Street to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria .
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	948
1821	1,534
1831	2,530
1841	2,807
1851	3,016
1871	3,134
1881	4,479

• A 5-member School Board was formed in 1881.
   
• In 1881, there was a National School on Brown Lane.
   
• In 1881, there was a Mill School for girls. It provided half-time education for girls in the employ of the silk mill run by John WATSON and his son.
   
• In 1881, there was a Wesleyan School in the town.
   
• The eastern edge of Beeston abuts the University of Nottingham's main campus, through which runs Beeston Lane.