Eakring

Although Eakring used to have its own Lending Library around 1910, it is now served by a Mobile Unit, route 10, which stops at the Savile Arms Pub on Mondays at 11am. Check the local newsletter for current schedules.

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

The Library at Southwell would also be a good resource.

The Community Library at Ollerton will also be a good source of information.

Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of St. Andrew's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2010.

The stained glass window on the east side of the church is dedicated to Amy SAVILE, wife of the late Captain Henry SAVILE of Rufford Abbey. No dates are recorded.

The churchyard was extended in 1912 and again in 1958.

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

• There was a church and a priest here at the time of the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• There is no record telling us about this ancient Saxon church's history or construction.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew. We know that this dedication goes back to at least the early 13th century.
   
• The current church was built in the Norman period (1066 to about 1400).
   
• In 1670 the church reported as "dangerously dilapidated". The vicor, William MOMPESSON, had the building repaired and the porches replaced.
   
• The church nave was widened in 1674.
   
• The church roof burned down in 1837, but was replaced with slate that same year.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1881.
   
• In 1886, the old parsonage house was torn down and new "Queen Anne" style house replaced it.
   
• The church seats 188.
   
• Andrew HILL has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2012.
   
• Neil THEASBY also has a photograph of St. Andrew's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1626 for baptisms, 1563 for marriages, and 1621 for burials. Some of the early registers are hardly legible and are not bound together.
   
• Online burials can be found at the St. Andrew's Churchyard site.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Tuxford.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1758-1831.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1835, as did the Primitive Methodists in 1837.
   

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

This parish and village lie about 134 miles north of London and 6 miles north of Southwell. The parish covers almost 2,500 acres and includes the hamlet of Leyfields which is just north-northeast of the village and 3 miles south of Ollerton.

A small stream rises near the village and runs east to the River Trent. If you are planning a visit:

• Visit the Eakring.org website.
   
• Stagecoach East Midlands' bus route 28B terminates in Eakring from Mansfield.
   
• By automobile, take the A6075 arterial road northeast out of Mansfield. At Ollerton, take the A616 southeast and at Wellow turn south (right) for Eakring.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72

"EAKRING, a parish in Southwell district, Notts; 4 miles SSE of Ollerton, and 5½ NNW of Southwell r. station. It has a post office under Newark. Acres, 2, 497. Real property, £3,260. Pop., 650. Houses, 139. The property is divided among three. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £480. Patron, alternately Earl Manvers and the Earl of Scarborough. The church is ancient. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Will Scarlet, the friend of Robin Hood, is said to have resided in Eakring."

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

• The webpage author has been advised by an anonymous source that there is no record of any plague outbreak at Eakring.
   
• William MOMPESSON helped the village of Eyam in the Great Plague of 1666, then was transferred to Eakring where he preached here, in the open air. He died in Eakring in 1706. Andrew STEPHENSON has a photograph of Mompesson's Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2004.
   
• There is a Windmill tower on Wellow Road that was built in 1840. The tower is roughly a five storey structure. The sails were removed in 1912 and it was converted into a house in 1995.
   
• Steven RUFFLES has a photograph of The Savile Arms public house on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2019.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK675622 (Lat/Lon: 53.152668, -0.9921), Eakring 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.

May 1919, a war memorial cross was erected in St. Andrew's churchyard.  It is a Celtic Cross on a ‘rough-hewn’ inscribed stone base and it stands near the north west corner of the church and by the roadside . The inscription includes the names of those who served (27) and those who were wounded (5).

Ian S. has a photograph of the War Memorial Cross on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.

The Great War Bulletin for January 11th, 1915 tells us that a Belgian refugee family, the VERBUCK family, was settled into a cottage here, provided by Lord SAVILE.

• For a list of names on the War Memorial cross, see the Nottingham County Council site.
   
• These are the names on the church choir War Memorial plaque, from the Nottingham County Council site:

1. private James Arthur LITTLE, 9th Btln. Royal Scots, son of James and Annie LITTLE, died 1918.
2. private James OSBORNE, 10th Btln. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, son of John and Ellen OSBORNE, died 1917.
3. private John Henry ROWLAND, 9th Btln. Sherwood Foresters, son of John and Charlotte ROWLAND, died 1915.

There are the men from World War I listed as killed on the western face of the memorial:

1. A. BETTS
2. William Henry CHERRY
3. Harry JARVIS
4. John Ira KEYWORTH
5. Joseph LAUGHTON
6. James Arthur LITTLE
7. Harry MOODY
8. E. J. MORRIS
9. James OSBORNE
10. Lionel Vernon PACKFORD
11. John Henry ROWLAND
12. W. WYKES

If you know more about either BETTS, WYKES, or MORRIS, please contact the web page administrator.

On the southern face appears, Served:

1. W. L. BOND
2. W. BROOME
3. M. CAVE
4. W. COBB
5. H. ELLIS
6. A. GILBERT
7. E. GILBERT
8. G. H. GILBERT
9. L. GLEW
10. C. GRESSWELL
11. J. W. HURST
12. F. HURT
13. G. W HURT
14. O. KIRK
15. P. LITTLE
16. H. MARSHALL
17. J. MARSHALL
18. J. MOODY
19. T. OSBORNE

On the northern face appears the following - Served:

1. W. PACEY
2. W. PALIN
3. A. W. RAGSDALE
4. G. ROBINSON
5. A. ROWLAND
6. W. ROWLAND
7. J. SEATON
8. T. W. THORNHILL

Wounded:

1. G. COBB
2. G. DOBB
3. W. FROST
4. A. F. GILBERT
5. J. G. ROBINSON

There were no Eakring losses in World War II.

At the south-eastern corner of the chancel, under a small window, is a seat with a brass plaque carrying the following inscription:

"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO RECORD THE GENEROSITY AND SKILL OF CHARLES HAROLD BOND RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 1915 TO 1936 WHO CARVED AND GAVE THIS SEAT, THE REREDOS AND PROCESSIONAL CROSS. THIS TABLET WAS PLACED HERE BY HIS FRIENDS IN 1937."

In the floor of the nave, close to the chancel steps, are these marker stones:

GILBERT MICHELL 1722-58, (north side)
SAMUEL ABSON 1762-77
WILLIAM BOAWRE 1777-91 (south side)

• The name derives from the Old Scandanavian eik+hringr, meaning "ring of oak trees". It appears as Ecringhe in the 1086 Domesday Book.
  [A. D. MILLS, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the South Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Eakring Parish Council regarding civic and political matters, but they are NOT funded to assist you with family history searches.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the local Parish Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2013. Stop in when they are open and ask for a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events. Classes are sometimes held here on local history.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Southwell petty session hearings every other Friday at 11am.
   
• In 1770, Mr. FOSTER left £17 for the poor, which the overseers distributed as around 17s. yearly to each deserving poor person.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1831	598
1841	661
1851	710
1861	650
1871	540
1881	424
1891	390
1901	330
1911	331
1921	326
1931	643
1951	560
1961	601

• There was a small school here in 1853, supported by subscription.
   
• The local School Board built a school here in 1877 for the children of both Rufford and Eakring.
   
• The National Grid's Learning and Development Centre opened here south of the village in 2012 to accept hundreds of apprentices and give them specialist training in substation technology.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of Pylons at the National Grid Training Centre on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2016.