Brinsley

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The is also a county library at Eastwood that has a local history section and a selection of local newspapers.

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

• There are two churches in the Brinsley area.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint James the Great.
   
• The church was built in 1837-38.
   
• The church was restored in 1877.
   
• The church seats 300.
   
• The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1861 from Greasley.
   
• There is a book entitled "BRINSLEY AND ST JAMES THE GREAT," by Ztan Zmith (yes, the spelling is correct). Mr. Zmith has published some 23 books about the area.
   
• Bill HENDERSON has a photograph of The Church of St James The Great on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   
• The Anglican church at Underwood is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
   
• The church was built in 1890.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1861.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had two chapels here before 1881.
   

• The parish was in the Greasley sub-district of the Basford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837, but entries before 1896 may be listed as Greasley parish.
   

Brinsley is both a township and a parish. The parish lies 137 miles north of London, 7 miles north-west of Nottingham and 2.5 miles north-west of Greasley. The parish borders Derbyshire on the west and covers 958 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the M1 motorway to the A610 trunk road at roundabout 27 and turn west. At the second roundabout, just past Underwood, you should be on the A608. Brinsley is just ahead, on the right.
   
• Alternatively, by automobile, you can take the A610 just past Eastwood and turn right onto the A608.
   
• Brinsley Parish Hall on Cordy Lane is available for wedding hire or an event like a large family reunion.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• In Saxon times this area was densely forested.
   
• Brune was a Saxon who settled here, drained the marshy land and cleared some of the forest away.
   
• The Plague came to this area in 1666.
   
• Coal seams used to be on the surface in the parish, so, naturally, a lot of coal was mined here starting in the late 18th century.
   
• D.H. LAWRENCE's father, Arthur, worked in Brinsley pit and this locality was the scene for some of LAWRENCE's books and short stories.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK457496 (Lat/Lon: 53.041327, -1.31978), Brinsley 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 Nottinghamshire county website tells us that:

"A wrought iron screen in the chancel of St James the Great was erected in memory of the parishioners who died in the Great War (Faculty dated 20 October 1919). A brass plaque commemorates the gift: 'The chancel screen was erected by public subscription in memory of the following parishioners who laid down their lives in the Great War (names). 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'".

These are the names on the War Memorial as provided by the Nottinghamshire county Memorial website.

1. William Dunn
2. Gerald Gilbourne
3. Walter Gilbourne
4. Arthur Hatton
5. John William Hollis
6. Edgar Jepson
7. John Newton
8. Jeremiah Paxton
9. Thomas William Pryor
10. Cecil Smalley
11. Samuel Vickers

Harold WARD lost his life during World War II.

• This place was an ancient extra parocial area of county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish in April, 1896. The parish was created from part of Greasley Civil Parish.
   
• This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
   
• The Parish Council has a website with information about the parish. NOTE: They are NOT staffed to help with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Broxtowe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• Because of the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union when the parish was formed in 1896.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1861	1,139
1871	1,316
1891	1,423
1901	1,418
1911	1,691
1921	1,953

• A National School (mixed) was erected here in 1869 and enlarged in 1892 to serve up to 350 students.