Park Leys

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

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

• The web page author could find no record of a church at Park Leys.

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

This parish (and farm) was only 4 miles north-west of Newark on Trent. The parish covered only 310 acres.

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The area of the parish is just north of Hockerton on the Knapthorpe road.

• Geograph
• Flickr

John Marius WILSON's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72, tell us:

" PARK-LEYS, an extra-parochial tract in Southwell district, Notts; 4¾ miles N W by N of Newark. Acres, 310. Real property, £242. Pop., 10. House, 1. "

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK737575 (Lat/Lon: 53.109607, -0.900486), Park Leys 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 place was long an extra-parochial place in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish in 1858.
   
• This parish was in the ancient Thurgarton Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• The parish was in northern division of the county.
   
• On 1 April, 1899, this Civil Parish was abolished and the land amalgamated into Kelham Civil Parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings held twice each week.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	-
1851	20
1871	9
1881	4
1891	8
1901	7