Scarrington

The Community Library at Bingham is also an excellent resource.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint John of Beverley.
   
• The date of original construction is 1633.
   
• The church was restored in 1867.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. John of Beverley's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1693.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1609-1854.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery #2 of Bingham.
   
• John MELLORS has contributed a list of Marriages, 1837 - 1902.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a small chaple here by 1881.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Scarrington Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

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

Scarrington is a village, a township and a parish 119 miles north of London, 3 miles north-east of Bingham and 10 miles south-west of Newark. The parish covers about 910 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road east out of Nottingham or west out of Grantham. Turn north at Whatton and proceed about 2.5 miles. You should intersect the village of Scarrington.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014. Is my memory fading? I thought horses needed FOUR shoes!
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

The village feast was held on Whit Sunday.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Women's Institute on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010. You might try and obtain a schedule of forth-coming events to see when they will next discuss the village history.

• Cassini Historical Maps has some older historical maps to assist you.
   
• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK734415 (Lat/Lon: 52.965849, -0.908603), Scarrington 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 a War Memorial marble plaque on the south wall of the parish church nave.

The names on the War Memorial are:

2nd Lt. Arthur Leslie FRASER, Gnr. Wilfred PRITCHETT, and Pte. Herbert Breedon WORLEY.

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bingham Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and have instead decided to have Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

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

Year	Population
1801	152
1841	230
1861	231
1871	231
1881	208
1891	203
1901	178
1911	184
1921	160
1931	162

• A parish school was built here in 1867 for Scarrington and Aslockton parishes.