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"Bulwell, situated in the vale of the Leen, four miles N.N.W. of Nottingham, is a scattered populous village and parish, containing 3,785 inhabitants, and 1,210 acres of land, including 140 acres of unenclosed forest. The Rev. Alfred Padley is the principal owner and lord of the manor, who resides at Bulwell Hall, and pleasant mansion embowered in trees, about a mile N.W. of the village, and five files from Nottingham. This estate was purchased by the worthy owner in 1827, of the assignees of Godfrey Wentworth Esq. Bulwell lime is considered to be the best in the county for all purposes.
The church was an ancient edifice, dedicated to St Mary, and stood upon a steep declivity. The rectory, valued in the King's Books at £5 5s 10d, now at £238, is in the gift of the Rev. Alfred Padley. The Rev. J.W. Armytage is the incumbent, and the Rev. Samuel Rogers is the curate, and resides at the rectory, an old edifice near the church. A handsome new edifice with a tower was erected of stone at a cost of £3,000, near the site of the old one, in 1850, by subscription, aided by a grant of £400 from the London and Nottingham Church Building Societies. The Rev. A. Padley gave £600, and Mrs. Bolton of Bulwell Hall gave £300. The same lady has (May 1852) furnished the church with a splendid organ which cost £600. The Wesleyan, New Connexion and Primitive Methodists, the Baptists and the New Testament Disciples, have each a chapel in the village. Here is a neat station on the Nottingham and Mansfield Railway. The Free-school was erected in 1668 by George Strelley Esq., who endowed it with land and buildings now worth £30 per annum, for which the master teached eight free scholars. John Dams, in 1788, left seven acres now worth ten guineas per annum, for the preaching of nine lectures yearly in the church, viz: on the last Tuesday in every month, except July, August and November. These lectures have not been given since 1817. The interest of £50, vested in the Nottingham Flood Road, and left by George Robinson in 1798, is distributed amongst the poor at Christmas."
[WHITE's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
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- The Bulwell Library was established in 1923 as part of a chain of libraries.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Bulwell Library on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009.
- The Bulwell Riverside Library is located on Main Street. They are open six days most weeks and have a Local History section.
- Nottingham Northern Cemetery opened in 1900 at Hempshill Lane. It was known at the time as the Northern or Corporation Cemetery.
- Photographs and a map can be found at 49 Squadron.
- Stephen McKAY has a photograph of Bulwell (Northern) Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2012.
- High Wood Cemetery is just west of town near Nuthall and all the graves are aligned to face north-west, a Muslim practice that has riled many a Christian. This cemetery apparently opened only in 2006 off Low Wood Road, so it is new.
- Oxymoron has a photograph of a Memorial to Police Constable Ged WALKER on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008. This police officer was killed whilst on duty in 2003.
- Susan CHURCH has a photograph of the gravestone for William Frederick STARBUCK on Flickr.
- The parish was in the Hucknall Torkard sub-district of the Basford Registration District:
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 856 |
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2127 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2441 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3490 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2671 & 2672 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary the Virgin and All Saints. Locally it is known as St. Mary's Church.
- Some Directories of the 1800s give the dedication to Saint Margaret, but I believe that was just an error that kept being repeated in later copies.
- The church was built in 1850 on the site of the original Bulwell church, which was erected in the 13th century. The older church was severly damaged by weather in 1843.
- The church was built in the Early English style.
- The church organ was added in 1871 as a memorial to Samuel Robert COOPER.
- There is a somewhat dark photograph of St. Mary the Virgin's Church in Coventry Road on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
- David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Mary the Virgin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
- The church seats 800.
- A new church was built in 1884 on Quarry road and dedicated to Saint John the Devine.
- David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. John's Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2012.
- This church seats 600.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1621 for baptisms and burials, and from 1702 for marriages.
- The church was in the No. 1 deanery of Nottingham.
- The new deanery of Bulwell was created in 1888.
- The Methodist New Connexion had a chapel here by 1869. Recently, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church group has been using the chapel.
- The Primitive Methodists chapel was built here on Quarry Road in 1867.
- The Baptist Chapel in Main Street was built in 1875 and can seat 700.
- J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Baptist Chapel on Coventry Road on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2017.
- The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here in 1882 in the Italian Style.
- J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Baptist Church in Coventry Road on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.
- The parish was in the Hucknall Torkard sub-district of the Basford Registration District:
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This village and parish are on the River Leen 4 miles north-west of Nottingham city and 133 miles north of London.
This village is now the north-west suburb of Nottingham city. If you are planning a visit:
- Note: Locals call the place "Bool".
- Take a look at the bus schedules in Greater Nottingham.
- Check the bus and coach schedule at Carlberry Co.
- If you have the time, enjoy the Bulwell Forest Golf Course as photographed here by Roger TEMPLEMAN on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
- We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bulwell to another place.
- The earliest settlements in the parish have been dated back to 800 AD.
- Bulwell ("Buleuuelle") is mentioned as a village in the 1086 Domesday Book.
- In the 1800s most of the working population were frame-work knitters. Others were bootmakers and limestone burners.
- The village feast was held on the Sunday after the 5th of November.
- Ben BROOKSBANK has a photograph of an Up Coal Train on Geo-graph, taken in July 1963. You can see a Bulwell Export warehouse in the background.
- David LALLY has a photograph of the The Horseshoe Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.
Bulwell Hall was built in 1770. It was demolished in 1958.
During World War Two it was a prisoner of war camp for Italian soldiers.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK535455 (Lat/Lon: 53.004152, -1.204195), Bulwell 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 1869, the Robin Hood Rifle corps (1st Nottinghamshire Volunteer Rifles) was stationed at Bulwell Hall; major Samuel Thomas COOPER, commanding.
- Bulwell Hall was a World War II Italian Prisoner of War camp.
- Bulwell Hall was demolished in 1958.
- The Traces of War website tells us that there are 158 Commonwealth War Graves for World Wars I and II in the Nottingham Northern Cemetery.
- Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of the Territorial Army Centre, Hucknall Lane on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
- There is a War Memorial in Saint Mary's church to the 11 choirmen who served in WW1 unveiled by Alderman J. HOUSTON Mayor of Nottingham, Two of the men were killed.
- There is a War Memorial Celtic Cross just outside the church door at St. Mary the Virgin and All Souls Church. It is a Grade II listed monument. The inscription reads: 'In grateful memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. Their names are placed on the tablet outside the west wall of the church and live for ever in our memory.'
The two choirmen who died were:
- Henry Camm, lcprl. 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters
- John William North, pte. Machine Gun Corps
The names on the War Memorial plaque (which includes the men mentioned above) outside the church are:
- Frank Adams
- Charles Allen
- Frank Allen
- Thomas Allington
- Wilfred Arthur Alliss
- Albert Alton
- Anthony Alton
- Edward Anderson
- John Ernest Ashmore
- Frank Aspland
- Percy George Austin
- Arthur Everatt Bacon
- Clarence Herbert Bacon
- David Baldry
- John B Balloch
- George Samuel Barker
- J. E. Barker
- Clarence Barlow
- Ernest Barnes
- Harry Barratt
- Walter Beardmore
- George Berridge
- Horace Robert Betts
- Thomas Betts
- John Thomas Bexton
- Robert Black
- William Bland
- George Alfred Bland
- John Robert Bland
- Alfred Bonner
- Fred William Bonser
- Samuel Vincent Boot
- William Bosworth
- Harold Boulton
- Fred Brand
- Claude Ernest Braybrooke
- Frank Arthur Brearley
- Joseph Brooks
- Frank William Brown
- George Brown
- E. Brown
- H. Brown
- Horace Buckland
- Thomas Burton
- William Thomas Burton
- George Button
- George Camm
- Henry Camm
- Henry Pattison Carey
- Charles Edwin Carratt
- George Carter
- Frederick Charles Chamberlain
- Henry Ernest Chambers
- Thomas Chambers
- Thomas Chambers
- Thomas Cheetham
- Leonard Blake Chester
- Percy William Christian
- E. Clark
- Joseph George Clark
- Charles Frederick Cleaver
- Bruce Henry Clements
- Charles Herbert Coates
- Joseph Cockayne
- Charles William Cooke
- Marshall Cotterill
- Harry Cottingham
- John William Cox
- George William Cox
- Albert Crich
- Sydney Cutts
- Frank Danby
- Frank Ernest Davis
- W. Davis
- Samuel Robert Dawes
- John Horace Daykin
- Arthur Deverill
- Albert Dickinson
- Fred Edwards
- Thomas Ennis
- Andrew Fardell
- James Robert Farmer
- William Ernest Farmer
- George Faulks
- George Frederick William Ferriman
- Levi Fisher
- John William Ford
- George Fox
- Harold Fox
- William Ernest Gadsby
- Leonard Gadsden
- Fred Garlick
- Vernon William Gellatly
- John Gent
- Marshall Keith Gilberthorpe
- John William Gilham
- Leslie George Goodacre
- Thomas Goodwin
- John Henry Greenway
- Albert Grocutt
- G. Hallam
- Charles Edward Halliday
- Charles Henry Hames
- John William Hames
- Jonathan Wallace Hancox
- Frederick Hardy
- George Hardy
- E. Harper
- S. Harper
- Albert Harrison
- John Hart
- Joseph Hart
- J. W. Hartshorn
- Clarence Leonard Harvey
- John Henry Harvey
- W. Harvey
- Lot Haywood
- Hugh Heaney
- Ernest Hencher
- Andrew Henshaw
- John William Hewes
- Harry Hewis
- Percy Highton
- Frank Farmer Hind
- F. Holland
- George Robert Holton
- Matthew Bates Hopkins
- E. Hopkinson
- Horace Horsley
- Leonard Horton
- Harry Leonard Hubble
- Frederick Charles Hulbert
- William Humphries
- Thomas Hutchinson
- William Henry Hutchinson
- Joseph Illsley
- John William Jackson
- William Jackson
- Frederick James
- Percy Jeffs
- Ernest Jepson
- Thomas Johnson
- Edward Jones
- S. Jones
- Harry Keeble
- W. E. Kemp
- Arthur Kendall
- Leonard King
- Harry Kirkham
- William Lakin
- F. Lane
- George William Lane
- Charles Law
- H. Lea
- Gordon Leatherland
- Harold Leatherland
- Leslie James Leatherland
- Harold Leighton
- Harry Leivers
- William Lester
- Alfred Little
- Thomas Lownds
- William Henry Lowe
- James Major
- Arthur Males
- James Marlow
- George William Marriott
- Clifford Marsland
- John Gordon McCulloch
- Thomas Mee
- William Metcalf
- William Henry Mills
- George Henry Moon
- John Mooney
- George Henry Newbutt Moore
- William John Lanard Moore
- George Moreman
- Thomas Edwin Morley
- Alonzo Murby
- Claude Murden
- Albert Edward Naylor
- John Noble
- John William Nock
- John William North
- John Albert Oldfield
- William Oliver
- Isaac Orme
- William Edwin Owen
- William James Palmer
- George Parr
- Arthur Patterson
- Frederick Albert Pearl
- Samuel Henry Pendleton
- Henry George Perry
- Harold Phillips
- Harold Pilkington
- Arthur Pinkett
- Fred Pinkett
- T. Pinkett
- William Pinkett
- Wilfred Pipkin
- John Pitt
- George Pollard
- James Redgate Pollard
- S. Pollard
- William Walter Poole
- George Porter
- Frederick William Price
- Harry Priestley
- G. Radford
- Leonard Leslie Radford
- John William Radford
- William Rance
- Alexander Read
- Percy Read
- Walter Read
- Albert Redmile
- George William Rhodes
- John Rhodes, RN, HMS Hood
- John Richards
- Edward Richardson
- Harold Roadley
- Cyril Edmund Robinson
- Frank Eric Robinson
- David Roome
- Joseph Henry Sansom
- John Sargent
- Henry Seymour
- John Roland Seymour
- Enoch Shakespeare
- George William Sharp
- William Percy Sharrock
- Leonard Shaw
- Henry Shepherd
- William Amos Shipley
- Joseph Henry Shorthouse
- Frederick Lawrence Simpson
- Bertie Skate
- Herbert Slack
- John Slack
- Samuel Henry Slack
- John Smedley
- Andrew Smith
- Henry Smith
- Horace George Smith
- Henry H. Smith
- Joseph Smith
- Percy Smith
- Theophilus Smith
- Thomas Smith
- Walter Smith
- J. H. Smith
- George Spencer
- Albert Edward Spencer
- George Alfred Spencer
- Joseph Spencer
- John William Spray
- Frederick Charles Staley
- Vincent Stapleton
- Charles Starbuck
- Thomas Starbuck
- John Barnes Starkey
- W. Statham
- John Joseph Stenson
- Alexander Stevenson
- Archie Stevenson
- B. Stevenson
- George Thomas Stevenson
- Herbert Stevenson
- William Stokes
- William Henry Storer
- H. Stuart
- Robert Styles
- Albert Styring
- S. W. Taylor
- Percy Taylor
- C. Thomas
- William Edwin Thorne
- Ernest Frederick Todd
- John Henry Turton
- Albert Twells
- Frank William Tye
- Samuel Unwin
- John William Verity
- S. Vernon
- Walter Henry Wadsworth
- John Henry Wakelin
- Sydney Waldron
- W. Walker
- Leonard Wall
- Sydney Josiah Walters
- John William Warhurst
- James Waring
- James Warner
- Ernest Warren
- Wilfred Warren
- George Edward Webb
- Gilbert Weston
- J. Whalley
- Leonard Whalley
- Charles Whittlesey
- William Walter Wibdy
- Alfred Douglas Widdowson
- George Samuel Wildgust
- Harold D. Wildgust
- Harold Wildgust
- Herbert Wildgust
- Charles Henry Wilkinson
- Albert Henry Williams
- Herbert Haydn Wilmot
- Ernest Winfield
- Luke Winfield
- William Winfield
- Richard Wombwell
- Albert Wood
- George Woodward
- Harold Woodward
- James Woodward
- William Thomas Woodward
- Harry Worley
- Francis Douglas York
- William Arthur Young
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county.
- This parish was in the north division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
- This parish has become part of the conurbation of Nottingham city and was officially made a part of the city and Civil Parish in April, 1899 by the "Nottingham Borough Extension Act".
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Old Town Hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2009. The Hall was built in 1894. It is currently a retail outlet.
- In 1798, George ROBINSON left £50 and the interest was distributed each year to the parish poor.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
- The free school was founded and endowed in 1688 by George STRELLEY. This school was closed in 1881.
- National Schools with separate rooms for boys and girls were built in 1867, with Samuel Thomas COOPER the primary contributor. It could hold 518 children. It is now known as the C of E primary school.
- Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of St. Mary's School on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2017.
- The primary school is Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, tele: (0115) 913 5007.
- Nikki MAHADEVAN has a photograph of the Bonington Junior Community School on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2007.