Cropwell Bishop

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The Community Library at Bingham is also an excellent resource.

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe-on-Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• In a November, 1883, re-organization, the parish was re-assigned to the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church was built circa 1215.
   
• The tower, built in the early 15th century, is 20 feet square and 60 feet high.
   
• The church chancel was restored in 1854.
   
• The clock in the church tower was installed in 1907.
   
• There is a good photograph of St. Giles Church on Panoramio.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   

• Anglican parish registers exist from 1539 and are in good condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1842 in Flemish Bond brickwork. The chapel still stands, but it is Grade II listed with British Heritage.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
   

• The parish was in the Ratcliffe-on-Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• In a November, 1883, re-organization, the parish was re-assigned to the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

The village and parish lies 1.2 miles east of the A46 trunk road in the Vale of Belvoir. The parish covers 1,380 acres.

The village is known for its Stilton Cheese. The Grantham Canal runs along the western edge of the village. If you are planning a visit:

• Check for bus service from Nottingham as well as Grantham.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72" described Cropwell Bishop thusly:

"CROPWELL-BISHOP, a parish in Bingham district, Notts; on the Fosse way, the Grantham canal, and the river Smite, 3 miles SW of Bingham r. station, and 8 ESE of Nottingham. Post town, Cropwell-Butler, under Nottingham. Acres, 1,380. Real property, £2,552. Pop., 638. Houses, 143. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300. Patron, alternately the Bishop of Ripon and the Prebendary of Oxton. The church was recently repaired and enlarged. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school."

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

• Composed of 12 households, Crophille was in Bingham Wapentake in the 1086 Domesday Book, but there was no mention of a church.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK685355 (Lat/Lon: 52.912569, -0.982811), Cropwell Bishop 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 War Memorial window is the only coloured glass in the church apart from a fragment of medieval glass. A three light stained glass window with an angel in the centre light holding a crown ('A crown of life') flanked in the left and right hand lights by St Nicholas, holding a ship, and St George. Below the angel is a soldier in contemporary uniform tending a comrade.
   
• The War Memorial Hall (Village Hall) was opened in 1932 by the then Prince of Wales as a tribute to the men who fought in World War I.
   
• We have a photograph taken inside the Memorial Hall that clearly shows a Roll of Honour on the wall. Alas, the names are not legible.
   
• We know that there is a brass War Memorial Plaque in the parish because the Parish Council minutes mention paying to referbish it. Alas, they do not mention the location.
   

Sergeant Frank STEEL born of this parish died on 27 October 1917 while a member of the Canadian Army Medical Corps.

Private John Albert HALL born of this parish died on 2 September 1918 while a member of the Manitoba Regiment.

There is a brass plaque in the Cropwell Bishop Primary School.

The names on the St. Giles War Memorial Plaque are:

1. Thomas Richard Barlow, bombardier, Royal Field Artillery
2. George Burrows, pte. 11th Bn Sherwood Foresters
3. John Robinson Cook, pte. 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters
4. Thomas Fogg, driver Royal Field Artillery
5. John Albert Hall, pte. 78th Bn Canadian Infantry
6. John Hampson, pte. 9th Bn Royal Sussex Regt.
7. Richard Marriott Hardy, pte. 20th Sqdn Machine Gun Corps
8. Thomas Alfred Loach, pte. 2/6th Bn West Riding Regt.
9. William Parnham, pte. 2/5th Bn Sherwood Foresters
10. John Slater, pte. 11th Bn Sherwood Foresters
11. Frank Wood, 2nd Lt. 8th Bn Sherwood Foresters

• This place was an ancient parish in the county of Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish gave up 36 acres transferred to Cropwell Butler Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the local Cropwell Bishop Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings held every other Thursday.
   
• In 1779 William FILLINGHAM left a small charity to distribute bread to the poor on the first day of January each year.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	307
1831	473
1851	640
1871	616
1881	636
1901	517

Cropwell Bishop Primary School is on Stockwell Lane. Their website has no school history or student records.