Marnham

The Library at East Retford will prove useful in your research.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Wilfred (spelling variations abound!).
   
• The church has been roughly dated to the 13th century.
   
• The church nave was restored in 1848.
   
• The church is no longer in use for regular services. It closed around 1986.
   
• The church is a Grade I listed building with British Heritage and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's Church on Geo-graph, taken in December 2005.
   
• J. HANNAN-BRIGGS has a photograph of the Church Chancel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.
   
• Brian WESTLAKE has a photograph of the Church tower on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2016.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1601, as does the Bishop's Transcript.
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Collingham.
   

• The parish was in the Tuxford sub-district of the East Retford Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration started in July, 1837.
   

Marnham is a village and a parish containing three townships: Ferry Marnham, Church Marnham, Skegby and Grassthorpe. The parish lies just west of the River Trent, 5 miles north of Carlton-on-Trent, 12 miles south-east of East Retford and 130 miles north of the city of London. The parish covers 2,970 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The A1 motorway used to run through the village but a modern bypass now skirts the place. The A57 passes just north of the parish.
   
• Steven FAREHAM has a photograph of the Village sign entering Marnham on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009. They could use your artistic talents to create a new, more expressive, sign.
   
• Steven FAREHAM also has a photograph of Marnham Lake, which stands between Low and High Marnham, on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2009. The lake is somewhat seasonal.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK806694 (Lat/Lon: 53.215555, -0.794441), Marnham 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 November 30th, 1914 tells us that Grassthorpe’s hero Charles WHATE arrived home on furlough last Tuesday – after playing a hand in the first capture of Germany guns in the war. The guns were exhibited in the War Office in London as the first "trophies" of World War One.

The Great War Bulletin for December 7, 1914 tells us that two men of Grassthorpe township, John and George SEELS, farmers, had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion.

The war memorial is on the south wall beside the entrance to the church and is a marble tablet. The dedication reads: 'To the Glory of God and in sacred and grateful memory of (names). Made the supreme sacrifice for their King & country in the Great War 1914-1918.'

The names listed on the War Memorial are:

• private Ernest WALSHAM, 2/8 Btln., Sherwood Foresters
• midshipman Charles Archibald Rees WILLIAMS, HMS King George V
• private Horatio William WOOLLEY, Royal Marine Light Infantry

• This place was an ancient parish of Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• In March, 1885, this Civil Parish was reduced in size to enlarge South Clifton Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1935, this Civil Parish was enlarged by 137 acres from Normanton on Trent Civil Parish.
   
• The parish has joined with Normanton-on-Trent to have a joint Parish Council.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

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

Year	Marnham	Grassthorpe
1801	192	-
1811	229	93
1851	240	83
1871	231	69
1881	196	75
1901	158	50

• A National School was built here in 1842 by Earl Brownlow.