Lenton

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

There is a Radford Lenton Library just west of downtown Nottingham, at the intersection of Radford and Wollaton Roads. It has a Local History Section you might find interesting. It was funded by the Carnegie Trust in 1922.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of A corner of Lenton Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2013.

Richard CROFT has a photograph of the headstone for Salome and Jabez HUNT on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.

• The parish was in the Lenton sub-district of the Radford Registration District.
   
• In June, 1880, this parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South West sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• Check our Census Resource page for county-wide resources.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:

• A Cluniac priory was established here in 1105.
   
• An old church, built in 1105 and standing on the site of St. Anthony's Hospital in the Priory courtyard, was taken down in 1844. It had been founded by William PEVEREL in the reign of Henry I.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy and Undivided Trinity.  It was built in the Early English Style.
   
• The church was consecrated in October, 1842.
   
• The church was restored in 1879 and again in 1894.
   
• The church seats 660.
   
• There is a photograph of Holy Trinity Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Holy Trinity Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.
   
• The church has a website, but there was no history information at last check.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1540 and is in good conditions.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   
• The Nottinghamshire Archives holds the registers for Lenton Holy Trinity; cmb for the period 1598 - 1900 on microfilm.
   
• In 2005 thieves stole the current parish registers from the church.
   
• The General Baptist chapel in Church Street was built in 1857.
   
• The Cornerstone Church was founded in 1825 as an overflow of the Stoney Street Baptist Church in the city. In 1983 the congregation moved from a Baptist Church in Hyson Green to Raleigh Street in Radford. Eventually, they moved to the Cornerstone Church facility.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Church Street was built in 1882 in the Gothic style.
   
• The Primitive Methodist chapel in Abbey Street was built in 1882 in the Pointed style.
   
• There is a Polish Roman Catholic Church in Sherwood Rise.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Sikh Temple, Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Gurdwara, on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.
   

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Lenton sub-district of the Radford Registration District.
   
• In June, 1880, this parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South West sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   

This parish and small town lies on the banks of the River Leen, 1.5 miles south-west of Nottingham and just east of Beeston. The parish covers just over 5,075 acres.

You can learn more about Lenton by reading the Lenton Times magazine.

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

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

Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Three Wheatsheaves Public House on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2020.

Chris WHIPPET has a photograph of the "Bag O Nails" Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2015.

In 1904 Lenton Hall was the seat of Frederick WRIGHT J.P.

• See our Maps page for resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK555395 (Lat/Lon: 52.95002, -1.175421), Lenton 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.)

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• The Nottingham and Notts Crimean and Indian Mutiny Veteran's Association operated here. Their task was to obtain pensions and increase of pensions for those entitled. They had their own burial ground here.
   
• 63 men from Lenton served in the South African Campaign (Boer War), of whom 7 died. They are memorialized in the parish church.
   
• There is a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken by Oxymoron in November, 2008. This memorial was erected by the inhabitants of Lenton in 1919. The memorial was unveiled on 29 May 1920.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the War Memorial plaque on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.
   
• And Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   
• Here are the men listed on the churchyard War Memorial:

1. William Edward Adams
2. Leonard Victor Allen
3. Archibald John Allgood
4. Lawrence Allport
5. Herbert Allsopp
6. James Andrews
7. Sydney Frank Arrowsmith
8. Harry Attenborough
9. Neville Oliver John Attewell
10. Leslie George Attewell
11. William Stevenitt Bacon
12. Arthur Charles Bailey
13. Frank Bakewell
14. Albert Ball, died May 1917
15. Edwin John Leslie Barker
16. James Francis Bassett
17. Alfred Neville Bates
18. Frederick William Beighton
19. John Bernard George Penter Patrick Augustus Berridge
20. John William Berrington
21. Claude Bilbie
22. Harold Henry Bird
23. Henry William Blackwell
24. Thomas Wallace Blackwell
25. Joseph Percy Blythe
26. Fred Bonnett
27. James Bonser
28. Charles Norman Brown
29. Harry Brown
30. James Brown
31. Alfred Henry Bryan
32. John Henry Burton
33. Douglas Arthur Buxton
34. Enoch Bywater
35. John Calvert
36. Henry Cartwright
37. Frederick Cass
38. Samuel Edward Cass
39. George Herbert Casterton
40. Samuel Edwin Chaplin
41. Arthur James Cheetham
42. Arthur William Cheetham
43. Harold George Cheetham
44. Joseph Chell
45. George Clarke
46. Joseph Clarke
47. Walter Ernest Clayton
48. Alfred Clements
49. Horace Cocking
50. Robert Archibald Colley
51. Ernest Comery
52. George Coombes
53. Joseph Coombes
54. Frederick George Cooper
55. Ronald Richard Nelson Cooper
56. Claude Cope
57. George Cope
58. John Robert Copeland
59. Thomas Cosgrove
60. Cecil Frank Quick Costin
61. George Henry Samuel Cox
62. Charles William Crawley
63. Edward Cresswell
64. Dorothea Mary Lynette Crewdson
65. John William Culley
66. Alfred Wallace Smith Cutts
67. James Albert Cutts
68. Harry Daft
69. Charles Dalton
70. Roby Davidson
71. Harry Reginald Davis
72. William Henry Davis
73. Arthur Dominic
74. Walter Dominic
75. James Alfred Dooley
76. Thomas Anthony Draycott
77. Herbert Dudley
78. Henry Dunn
79. Horace Eaton
80. William Harold Eley
81. Frederick John Elliott
82. Frederick William Elliott
83. George Fairholm
84. Charles Edward Fell
85. Albert Fisher
86. Ernest Fisher
87. Thomas Fisher
88. John Samuel Flewitt
89. Arthur Flinders
90. Maurice Walter Fulcher
91. Percy Giles
92. Percival Harwood Gorman
93. Walter Ernest Gray
94. George Harold Greaves
95. John William Green
96. Thomas Green
97. John William Greenwood
98. John George Hamilton Guy
99. Frederick Hackford
100. Thomas George Hall
101. Charles Edward Hallam
102. Robert Hanson
103. Charles Amos Hardy
104. Joseph Harrison
105. Clifford Herbert Haskins
106. Ernest John Haskins
107. William Herbert Hattersley
108. William Haw
109. James Alick Hawkins
110. Arthur Laurence Hayward
111. Alfred Frederick Hemingway
112. Albert Henry Hemsley
113. Thomas George Henshaw
114. Herbert William Herod
115. William Hicking
116. Sidney Victor Hickman
117. Edward David Higham
118. Archibald Charles Hill
119. Horace Claude Hill
120. Thomas Hine, died 25th Dec. 1915 aged 38. Relative of Margaret SIUDEK
121. Arthur Hodson-Smith
122. Thomas Holland
123. Arthur Holmes
124. Bertie Willis Holmes
125. James Ivor Holroyd
126. Albert Hooton
127. William Hooton
128. Alfred Howitt
129. Bertie Gilbert Hunt
130. John Oliver Hutchinson
131. John Everard Hydes
132. Robert Bernard Ibbs
133. William Imisson
134. Frederick Bowring Innocent
135. Archibald Arthur Jackson
136. Victor Hubert Jervis
137. Clarence Everard Johnson
138. Frank Johnson
139. Joseph Harold Johnson
140. Raymond Albert Johnson
141. William Johnson
142. Thomas Henry Keetley
143. Sidney Kent
144. Joseph Isaac Kirk
145. Leonard Knight
146. Horace Lamyman
147. Gerald William Lancaster
148. John Lane
149. John Langham
150. Leonard Langley
151. Abel Layton
152. Arthur Willie Leach
153. Ewart Gladstone Lee
154. James Leeming
155. John Cyrus George Henry Marriott Lindley
156. William Henry Lindley
157. Albert Henry Lowe
158. Albert Victor Lowe
159. John Henry Lowe
160. Ernest Morris Ludlow
161. George Arthur Lyon
162. Harold Thomas Maltby
163. Stuart Grundy McLean
164. Charles Noel Meakin
165. Joseph Phillip Meeks
166. Arthur Mitchell
167. Francis Mitchell
168. Herbert Monsheimer
169. James Moore
170. Walter George Mottishaw
171. Albert Mowbray
172. Albert Ernest Mowbray
173. Joseph Myatt
174. Joseph Ambrose Naylor
175. Herbert Neail
176. Charles Heathcote Neep
177. Arthur James Newcombe
178. William Henry Newcombe
179. Maurice Nutt
180. Giles Ogle
181. Walter Ogle
182. Frank Parkes
183. Samuel Pearson
184. Roland Pepper
185. Edwin Perrons
186. William Henry Perrons
187. Frank Perry
188. Bernard Francis Pilgrim
189. George Platts
190. John William Pooley
191. Alexander Porter
192. John Potter
193. Charles Henry Fergus Powell
194. Herbert Prior
195. Harold Heafford Proudfoot
196. Edwin Richardson
197. Thomas George Riley
198. William Edwin Rippon
199. John George Robinson
200. Frederick James Roe
201. George Taylor Roe
202. John George Roe
203. Herbert Frederick Russell
204. Alfred Sadler
205. Thomas Burton Sampson
206. Leonard Scarlett
207. John Richard Screeton
208. Hubert Allison Shaw
209. Bernard John Sheppard
210. George Alexander Sheppard
211. Frederick Shrewsbury
212. Leonard Maurice Simmons
213. Harold Lloyd Simpson
214. Joseph Simpson
215. Leslie Colin Simpson
216. Ernest Owen Smith
217. Fred Smith
218. George Smith
219. George Henry Smith
220. Henry Smith
221. John Henry Smith
222. John Henry Spencer
223. Leonard Spencer
224. Percival Spencer
225. Gervase Thorpe Spendlove
226. Harry Spick
227. Harold Thomas Spray
228. Albert Edward Stableford
229. Arthur Starr
230. Leonard George Steer
231. Thomas William Stevens
232. John Stevenson
233. Walter Stevenson
234. Cecil Stokes
235. Arthur Herbert Summers
236. Arthur J. Summers
237. Leonard James Summers
238. Percy Swinn
239. Claude Sykes
240. John Acton Sykes
241. Thomas Tatham
242. Samuel Taylor
243. Herbert Teagle
244. Reginald Thompson
245. Henry Thrale
246. Robert Thrale
247. John Leslie Tomlinson
248. Arthur William Topley
249. Jim Truswell
250. Alexander George Turner
251. Reginald Upton
252. Alfred Vickers
253. William Horace Vickers
254. Leonard Wagstaff
255. Edward Lawrence Walker
256. George Henry Walker
257. John Heath Wall
258. Roland Wallis
259. Arthur Cyril Walters
260. John Harold Walters
261. William Walters
262. John Henry Ward
263. John Warden
264. William Wardle
265. Ronald William Ailsa Watts
266. Thomas Edward Watts
267. Samuel Welbourn
268. Charles Edgar Welbourne
269. John William Wesley
270. Ernest Richard Whitehead
271. George Richard Whitworth
272. John Henry Widdowson
273. William Widdowson
274. Herbert E Williams
275. Albert Isaac Wilshaw
276. Harold Wing
277. George Henry Wood
278. John Gervase Wood
279. Bernard Woodward
280. John Woolley
281. Percy Woolley
282. Edward Wrench
283. Alfred William Wright
284. Harold Wright
285. William Joseph Wright

There are 13 Commonwealth War Graves in Holy Trinity's churchyard. We show them separated by WWI and WWII:

1. Fred BONNETT, gunner, Royal Gar. Artillery, age 25, died 1 Nov. 1918.
2. Oliver BURTON, shoeing smith, South Notts Hussars, age 24, died 15 Nov. 1914.
3. Mrs. Alice Mary FLANNERY, section leader, Women's Royal Naval Service, age 37, died 9 Sept. 1918.
4. Clarence Everard JOHNSON, 2nd lieut., RAF, age 19, died 22 May 1918.
5. Jack LANE, priv., Northumberland Fusiliers, age 39, died 12 Nov. 1917.
6. Walter MOTTISHAW, rifleman, KRRC, age 23, died 3 Jan. 1916.
7. Cecil STOKES, priv., Leic. Regt., age 19, died 21 Dec. 1918.
8. Reginald THOMPSON, rifleman, KRRC, age 27, died 11 June 1916.
9. John Heath WALL, gunner, Royal Gar. Artillery, age 27, died 19 Feb. 1919.
10. John Harold WALTERS, rifleman, London Regt., age 22, died 7 Nov. 1916.
11. Albert Isaac WILSHAM, sapper, Royal Engineers, age 36, died 27 Oct. 1918.
     

World War II:

12. Douglas Arthur ATTEWELL, pilot officer, RAF Vol. Rsrv., age 23, died 18 June 1941.
13. Archibald SMITH, srgt., RAF Vol. Rsrv., age 20, died 8 Feb. 1942.

Albert BALL, listed on the War Memorial above, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, born in Lenton, and was Britain's first Great War air ace. Lois BALL was his sister.

Nottinghamshire Live has current-day coverage of Lenton online.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• The parish was incorporated into Nottingham city in 1877.
   
• There is no parish council. Since 1877, Nottingham City Council has been the administrative unit.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• The LAMBLEY Almshouses in Woodborough road were built in 1897 to replace the old almshouses that were built in the Derby road back in 1814.
   
• The PLUMPTRE Hospital in Plumptre square was founded in 1392 by John de PLUMTRE to house 13 poor widows. The Hospital was rebuilt in 1823. It also served 40 out-pensioners in 1912. The Hospital closed circa 1985, but continues to function as a charity for out-pensioners.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Radford Poor Law Union.
   
• In June of 1880, this parish was reassigned to the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
   
• ROBINSON's Almshouses in Mansfield Road and Percival Road were built in 1889 and consisted of 12 houses for aged people over 70.
   
• The NORRIS Homes in Berridge road were erected in 1893 and are for eight ladies of limited income.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the William WOODSEND Memorial Homes on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2020. These homes were erected in 1912–13 as six almshouses in memory of local builder William Woodsend by his sons, Jack and Arthur.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	893
1821	1,240
1841	4,467
1851	5,589
1871	6,053
1881	9,162
1891	10,957
1901	23,872

The Industrial Training Institution and Orphanage at Old Lenton provided a home for young females where religious traing was combined with training in domestic tasks. In 1904 it held 49 students.

John SUTTON has a photograph of the Nottingham University Sustainable Chemistry Laboratory on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2018. The Jubilee Campus was destroyed by fire on 12 September 2014. It was immediately rebuilt and opened in 2016.

The former Church of England School built in 1841 is now the Sikh Temple.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Lenton Primary School on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014. It is now the Abbey Campus, Lenton, of Dunkirk Primary School which is about 1 km distant.