Elston Chapel

The Library at Newark on Trent will be an excellent resource.

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

The small church was built in the 12th Century. There is no tower.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of Elston Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2015.

J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of Elston Old Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2013.

The Chapel was declared redundant on 23 September 1976 and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

• The chapel registry starts in 1584.
   
• The church is currently in the Newark and Southwell deanery.
   
• We have an extract of Elston Chapelry baptisms provided by John MELLORS in 2013.

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

• A 1900 Description of Elston Chapel.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The parish used to hold a feast on the first Sunday in June.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK762482 (Lat/Lon: 53.025674, -0.865346), Elston Chapel 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.

There is no War Memorial in the parish.

• This place was an ancient chapelry attached to East Stoke parish in county Nottingham.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1861	210