Girton

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

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the church graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2010.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians.
   
• Thid church building was erected in the 13th century.
   
• This original church was partly rebuilt and thoroughly restored in 1879.
   
• In the church porch is a Saxon grave marker. The Saxon cross is said by some to be the oldest ecclesiastical item in Nottinghamshire.
   
• This church is a relatively modern, small structure with only one bell.
   
• The church seats 120.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure with English Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Cecilia's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• Richard CROFT has another photograph of St. Cecilia's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.
   
• Graham HOGG also has a photograph of St. Cecilia's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2016.
   
• Regular Sunday services are no longer held at the church.
   
• The church is now managed by the Nottinghamshire Historic Churches Trust.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1680.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1770-1842.
   
• Also, you can search the East Trent Genealogy site for church records.
   
• The church was in the No. 1 deanery of Newark (later, the rural deanery of Collingham).
   
• The Free Methodists had a chapel here in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
   

• The parish was in the North Collingham sub-district of the Newark Registration District for Civil Registration.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

Girton is both a small village and a parish on the east bank of the Trent River, 9 miles north of Newark and 130 miles north of London. Lincolnshire forms the eastern border and the Trent River the western border. The parish covers 1,075 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1133 trunk road north out of Newark-on-Trent towards Gainsborough, turn left just after Besthorpe to enter Girton village.
   
• John SLATER has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012. It's useful to stop by and get a schedule of current events. The hall can be hired for your family re-union!
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Girton has flooded many times from the ravaging Trent River and/or the River Fleet. Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Girton floodmarks on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008. The church is on the only high ground in this parish.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of The Fleet covering Green Lane on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2021.
   
• The last major flood was in 2012 when folldwaters "cut off" the village from the rest of the county.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of a flooded Trent Lane on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2012, during that flood.
   
• Richard CROFT advises that you pay attention to the No Parking signs on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2008.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK825659 (Lat/Lon: 53.18381, -0.766898), Girton 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 Girton had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion. They were A. GEE, labourer, and G. HOPKINSON, boatman.

St. Cecilia's church has a wall mounted brass plaque with black and red lettering over a Roll of Honour.

The people listed on the Roll of Honour are:

1. Brown, Frank
2. Coulson, Ernest E.
3. Coulson, Mary
4. Dawson, Joseph
5. Dawson, Minnie
6. Dawson, Richard
7. Gee, Harry
8. Hopkinson, Charles
9. Noble, Cecil
10. Noble, Charles
11. Noble, Herbert
12. Noble, Robert
13. Storr, Ernest
14. Sumner, Percy
15. Wells, Mary L.
16. Wilson, John

In ancient records this parish appears as Gerton.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish about the time that those were established.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Newark Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
   
• Girton does not have a formal Parish Council. The citizens hold a semi-annual parish meeting in the Vilalge Hall to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• John SLATER has a photograph of Girton's Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2012.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Newark Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1831	183
1861	188
1871	177
1881	150
1891	125
1901	132

The place is included in the Besthorpe School district; the children attended the school at Besthorpe.