Lindhurst

The Library at Mansfield is an excellent resource.

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

There is no record of a church here at Lindhurst.

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

Lindhurst is 3.1 miles south-east of Mansfield and 2 miles east from Blidworth. The parish covers 896 acres and is south of the A617 trunk road. The webpage author could find no evidence of a village as such, just local farmhouses.

• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of Lindhurst Farm on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2014.
   
• Much of Lindhurst has been turned into a "wind farm" to generate electricity for Mansfield and the villages in the area.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of one of Lindhurst Wind Farm turbans on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2016.
   
• Antony DIXON has a photograph of Recent additions to Lindhurst on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2011.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• This Liberty was formerly charged with furnishing oak for the repairs of Nottingham castle.
   
• Lyndhurst Wood has a link to the Robin Hood legend, the site of an ancient moat across from Fountain Dale is alternatively called 'Friar Tuck Island' and is supposed to be where the two met and the friar was challenged to carry the outlaw over, but with Tuck eventually throwing him in.
   
• Peter WISE has a photograph of 2 of the wind turbines at Lindhurst (there a five in all) on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2010.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK565578 (Lat/Lon: 53.114398, -1.15734), Lindhurst 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 Lindhurst.

The name appears to be from Old English "Hill where Lime trees grow." More research is needed to verify that.

The name appears as "Lyndhurst" in the 1861 Census.

• This place was an extra-parochial area in Nottingham county, known as "The King's Manor of Lyndhurst", but became a modern Civil Parish in December of 1858.
   
• This parish is in the Southwell division of the Thurgarton Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• This parish was in the Skegby Rural District from 1894 until 1935.
   
• This parish was in the Southwell Rural District from 1935 until 1974.
   
• District governance would fall under the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   
• The citizens of this small parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council. In its place, they hold periodic Parish Meetings of the residents to discuss civic and political matters.
   
• District governance would fall under the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

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

Year	Inhabitants
1801	-
1851	10
1861	11
1871	16
1881	32
1891	33
1901	18
1911	29
1921	40

• A Public Elementary (mixed) school was built here in 1847 for 290 children.
   
• The school was enlarged in 1897.