Kimberley

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• A Public Cemetery, set aside in 1881, covers 5.5 acres.
   
• The Cemetery had a single mortuary chapel.
   
• Lynne KIRTON has a photograph of the Kimberley cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010.
   
• The Cemetery was administered by the Parish Council.
   

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

• On 11 August, 1848, this place was established as a separate ecclesiastical parish from mother Greasley parish.
   
• This Anglican parish church was dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
   
• The new church was built in 1847 of Bullwell stone in the Early English style.
   
• The organ was installed in 1887 to replace a Harmonium. A new organ was installed in 1937 as a gift from the HANSON family.
• The church seats 550.
   
• The churchyard was extended in 1878.
   
• There is a photograph of the Parish Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2005.
   

• This Anglican parish register dates from 1848.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Beeston.
   
• The Primitive Methodists built a chapel here about 1881.
   
• A United Methodist chapel was built in James Street in 1884.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of St Paul's Methodist Church on the corner of High Street and James Street on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2017.
   
• Another United Methodist chapel was built in Nottingham Road in 1889.
   
• A Baptist chapel was built in 1878.
   

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

This village and parish lie 137 miles north of London, about 6 miles north-west of Nottingham and about 1 mile south of Wastwood. The parish covers 838 acres and includes the village of Babbington, Newthorpe Common and part of Hill Top. On the South side of Kimberley lies Swingate, which has many different walking and cycling routes into the woods and surrounding countryside.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• By automobile, take the A610 west out of Nottingham and turn south at the roundabout at the west end of Whatnall. The village should only be about 1/2 mile ahead.
   
• By train, there used to be passenger service to Ilkeston station, 2 miles away, but the web page author is unsure if passenger service is still offered.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The town grew as a centre for coal mining, brewing and hosiery manufacturing. An extensive factory for hosiery manufacturing was built here in March, 1880. There were also two large breweries in 1912. There has been no mining or hosiery manufacturing in the town for many years and the local brewery was sold and closed at the end of 2006.
   
• The village feast was always held on the third Sunday after the 2nd of October.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK499447 (Lat/Lon: 52.997308, -1.25796), Kimberley 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.

• In 1912, Color-Srgt. Harry GIRLING, drill instructor to F Company of the 8th Territorial Force, lived here in Spring gate.
   
• One of the village's most notable structures is the war memorial which is in the form of a rotunda. It was dedicated in 1921.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the war memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016. It stands north-west of the Kimberley Cemetery on Main Street at Green's Lane.
   
• Inside the domed War Memorial are a number of plaques which are, reportedly, a Roll of Honour of all who served in World War One. An additional plaque lists those who died in World War Two. A list of all these names can be found at the Nottinghamshire County War Memorial website.
   
• There is a War Memorial plaque for WWI on the north wall of the parish church nave. You can see this list of names at: Nottinghamshire War Memorials website
   
• There is also a War Memorial plaque for WWI on the wall of the Kimberley Parish Hall for the British School boys who fell in the Great War. You can see this list of names at: Nottinghamshire War Memorials website
   
• An oddity, perhaps, but there is also a Roll of Honour plaque for all the Hardy Hanson employees who served in WWI. It is in Ilkeston's Three Horseshoes pub on the Derby Road. You can see this list of names of those who died at the: Nottinghamshire War Memorials website
   
• One of the village's famous residents was Sergeant Richard BOLITHO, the Rear Gunner on a Lancaster bomber which crashed with the loss of the whole crew during the Dambuster raid in World War II.
   

These are the names on the Roll of Honour:

1. Henry Alford
2. John Edward Bell
3. Thomas Arthur Booth
4. William James Bromwich
5. John E. Brown
6. Alfred Burton
7. George Camplin
8. Stanley Cecil Carrier
9. Sydney Chambers
10. William Saxton Chambers
11. Claude Chettle
12. Harry Chettle
13. Frederick Henry Clarke
14. William Henry Clarson
15. Frederick Shaw Clay
16. Ernest Alfred Clayton
17. Leonard Clifton
18. Willoughby Arthur Clifton
19. Arthur Ernest Cranwell
20. Edgar Dale
21. George Dewey
22. Robert W. Elliott
23. Tom Walter Fletcher
24. James Donnelly Ginnever
25. Harry Goss
26. Samuel Goss
27. John Henry Hallam
28. Sydney Hanson
29. Charles Crowther Hart
30. Edward Hesketh
31. Ernest Hind
32. Alfred Hudson
33. Thomas Ince
34. Albert Jackson
35. Albert Ledger
36. Ernest Lilley
37. Percy Henry Meads
38. Bernard Mottram
39. John Mottram
40. T. W. Naylor
41. Wilfred Gordon Oates
42. Amos Norman Parkes
43. John Peake
44. Albert Ellis Rogers
45. Joseph Harold Rowland
46. John Wilfred Shaw
47. William Henry Shaw
48. Herbert Samuel Smith
49. Henry Stapleton
50. Gordon William Stirland
51. Henry Stirland
52. Richard Surgay
53. Frank Williamson Taylor
54. Henry James Thurman
55. Jesse Colin Towle
56. Frank Edwin Tyler
57. Edward Walker
58. Thomas Whittaker
59. Charles William Wysall
60. George Kenneth Wysall

• The name Kimberley is referred to as Chinemarelie in the 1086 Domesday Book.
  [A. D. MILLS, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names," Oxford University Press, 1991].

• This place was long a chapelry in Greasley parish in the northern division of Nottingham county.
   
• On 1 April, 1896, this place was incorporated as a separate, modern Civil Parish.
   
• From 1894 to 1974 the parish was part of Basford Rural District Council.
   
• Since 1974, Kimberley has been part of the Borough of Broxtowe.
   
• This parish was in northern division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• You can visit the Kimberley Town Council, but they are not set up to assist with family history questions.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union, both as a chapelry in Greasley and later as a Civil Parish in its own right.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1861	2,821
1891	4,798
1901	5,129
1911	5,174
1921	5,158

• The Church School was built in 1879 to replace older buildings. It could hold 200 children.
   
• The British School was built in 1873.