Cromwell

The Library at Newark-on-Trent will prove useful in your research.

J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of St Giles' churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church tower was added in 1427.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1873.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• Chris ALLEN has a photograph of the Church of St. Giles on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2011.
   
• Christine HASMAN has a photograph of the Church of St. Giles on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2004.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph from the other end of St. Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register, which is in fair condition, dates from 1650 for baptisms, 1654 for marriages and 1653 for burials.
   
• The Family History Library has the Marriages at Cromwell, 1654 - 1837 on microfilm #0496705.
   
• The Bishop's transcripts go back to 1626.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Collingham.
   

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

This village and parish are 130 miles north of the city of London and 5 miles north of Newark-on-Trent. The parish covers 1,170 acres

If you are planning a visit:

• The A1 motorway passes through the edge of the village, just north of Newark-on-Trent.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012. Stop in and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• Julian P. GUFFROG has a photograph of a Monkey Puzzle Tree on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

The Romans were here. Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Roman bridge memorial on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2015.

The Milestone Brewery is an interesting pub with a long history. Alan MURRAY-RUST took this picture in July, 2014.

Paul SHREEVE has a photograph of the Vina Cooke Doll Museum in Cromwell on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2009.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK798617 (Lat/Lon: 53.146476, -0.808338), Cromwell 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 Great War Bulletin for December 7, 1914 tells us that two men of Cromwell had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion: N. NURCOMBE and George DAKIN, both farmers.

Cromwell is a "Thankful Village", having lost no men to combat in World War I. In addition, none of the men who served in WW II were killed, either. The village did lose one civilian who was visiting Newark and who died in a German air-raid on that city.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county, and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo the traditional parish council and, instead, have periodic Parish Meetings of the citizens.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1772.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	203
1831	184
1851	190
1861	154
1901	111
1911	157

This parish is included in the North Muskham School District. The district built a large school at Muskham in 1880.