Screveton

The Community Library at Bingham is an excellent resource.

Ian S. has a photograph of St. Wilfrid's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of some Chest Tombs at Screveton on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.

• 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 Wilfrid (One source gives Saint Winifred) in the Early English Style.
   
• The date of original construction is not recorded, but most construction was completed in the 14th century. There is evidence that an earlier church stood on the site. And the font in the present church dates back to 1170 AD.
   
• The church was restored in 1881 and the nave in 1884.
   
• The church seats 140.
   
• Robert DANYLEC has a photograph of Saint Wilfrid's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of Saint Wilfrid's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1650.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1630-1843.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery #2 of Bingham.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a small chapel here in 1848.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1869.
   

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

Screveton is a village and a parish 120 miles north of London, 4 miles north-east of Bingham and 13 miles north-east of Nottingham city. The parish covers about 1110 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 onto the Foss Way (A46 trunk road) and proceed about 4 miles. The village of Screveton will be on your right.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

Dr. Robert THOROTON, the noted Nottinghamshire Historian, was born here on 4 October 1623. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to nearby Car Colston Hall.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the circular Pinfold on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2009. The pinfold has been converted into an herb garden.

• 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 SK731437 (Lat/Lon: 52.985662, -0.912573), Screveton 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 tablet in the church to the memory of Admiral Evelyn SUTTON who died in 1817. SUTTON died at Screveton Hall in June 1817.

The War Memorial is a brass plaque on a wooden base mounted inside St. Wilfrid's Church. It commemorates the three men of Screveton who gave their lives in World War I.

There is also a War Memorial plaque on a standing stone just north of the village to honour the eleven men killed in a midair collision above Screveton. Bob DANYLEC has a photograph of this War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.

These are the men from the parish who fell in World War One:

To see the names of the eleven airmen killed in the collision, Richard CROFT has a close-up of the memorial plaque on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.

• 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 northern 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 Bngham petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1776.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1861	241
1871	219
1881	179
1891	172
1901	159
1911	163
1921	140
1931	103

• A school existed here in 1869 for both sexes.
   
• A formal Public Elementary School (mixed) was opened here in 1890 for 20 students.