Sneinton

• The library was established here in 1841.
   
• The new library is on Sneinton Dale in the Dales Centre.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Carlton Road Library on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2009.

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Sneinton sub-district of the Radford Registration District.
   
• In July, 1880, the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South East sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Stephen.
   
• The present church was constructed in 1838-39 in the Early English Style on the site of the old one.
   
• The church was built in the form of a cross with a central tower.
   
• The new church was consecrated on 26 September, 1839.
   
• The church seats 600.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1912.
   
• The church is now Grade II listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as a building of historical interest.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Stephen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2007.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a close-up of St. Stephen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of St Stephen's tower on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
   
• Saint Matthias Church, on St. Matthias road, was originally a Chapel of Ease to St. Stephen's. It opened in May, 1868. It sat vacant in 1904 and closed in 2003.
   
• St. Matthias Church could seat 550.
   
• The Southwekk and Nottingham Church History project tells us: "As a result of enemy action in 1941 the church was badly damaged; the sacristy was destroyed, the apsidal wall was badly cracked, the organ was damaged and many windows broken. The church was saved by the Vicar (the Revd F. L. F. Rees), a part-time air warden. Armed with a stirrup pump, he dashed to the scene and saw an incendiary bomb blazing away in the roof. He waited for the bomb to burn its way through and fall into the nave. He then doused the flames with the pump."
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of St. Matthias' Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.
   
• St. Clement's Church, a mission church to St. Mattias, was built in 1887-88 and could seat 200.
   
• Saint Alban's Church, on Bond Street, was an Anglican church built in 1886-87 to seat 565 people, It was built to serve a new ecclesiastical parish carved from St. Stephen's and St. Matthias. It was declared redundant in 2003 and sold.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of St. Alban's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
   
• There is a Saint Christopher church in Sneinton, but the web page author has found no historic information on it.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of St. Christopher's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1650 and is in good condition.
   
• Saint Matthias' parish register dates from 1868.
   
• The Anglican churches were in the No. 2 deanery of Nottingham.
   
• St. Stephen is now in the Nottingham South deanery.
   
• The Albion Congegational Chapel was erected in Sneinton Road in 1856 and could seat 850.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1825. The United Free Methodists also had a chapel here prior to 1904.
   
• Saint Cyprian church is a Catholic church in Sneinton.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Ukrainian Catholic Church on Bond Street on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the Jamia Masjid Sultania mosque on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
   
• William BOOTH. the founder of the Salvation Army, was born here in 1829.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the William BOOTH statue on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   

• The parish was in the Sneinton sub-district of the Radford Registration District.
   
• In July, 1880, the parish was reassigned to the Nottingham South East sub-district of the Nottingham Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Although once a small and independent village and parish, Sneinton has become an eastern suburb of Nottingham city. The parish covered 843 acres and includes the hamlets of Old Sneinton, New Sneinton, Middle Sneinton, Element Hill and the Hermitage.

Sneinton Villa is situated on the Carlton road about a quarter mile north-east of Old Sneinton. Sneinton Hermitage is a large perpendicular rock, rising on the east of Nottingham, overlooking the Trent River. It has many ancient caves carved out of the solid rock.

Many historians think this is the heart and source of Nottingham city, since it's ancient name was Snottengaton, but since it is now a part of that city, it is a moot point.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the modern Market Place and Victoria Leisure Centre on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2017. This place is right up against the border with old Nottingham city.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• The village feast is held on the first Sunday in August.
   
• Typhoid fever swept the parish in 1801.
   
• A large part of the population in the 1800s were employed in frame-work knitting.
   
• In 1811 the Luddites swept through the Nottingham area, destroying many stocking and lace machines. Their activities continued until 1816.
   
• The population of this parish mushroomed between 1801 and 1851 as this little village was turned into a vast housing estate.
   
• William CAMPION came to Sneinton around 1855 and opened a sewing machine factory.
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of the Hindu Community Centre on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
   
• If you get a chance, visit Green's Mill. Alex FOSTER has a photograph of Green's Mill on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2005.
   
• Nigel THOMPSON has a photograph of Green's Windmill under renovation on Geo-graph, taken in February, 1982.
   
• Sneinton also has its own Dragon as shown on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2008.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of The Queen Adelade.Pub.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a rainbow over the White Lion Pub on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2017.
   
• Sneinton has, like many cities and towns in the Kingdom, "buried" some of its small becks and streams. Noel JENKINS has a photograph of Beck Burn in its tunnel under Sneinton on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK584397 (Lat/Lon: 52.95151, -1.132229), Sneinton 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 parish was home to the "County and Borough Lunatic Asylum" on the Carlton Road, opened in 1812. It is unknown what records may have survived. They were not required to archive these records, but a check with the Notts Archives office may be in order. Typically administrative and accounting documents are archived. In 1853 it was converted to a "pauper asylum" only.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the gate post for The General Lunatic Asylum on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.

• A three-part memorial is on the north wall of St. George's Chapel in the parish church. It lists 200 men who died in World War I.
   
• The Imperial War Museum has a page about the Oliver Hind Youth Club's wall memorial.
   
• Another memorial stands in the churchyard. It is a "Calvary" on a two step base. This memorial was unveiled in May, 1920.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Calvary (War Memorial) in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   

You can review the names on the war memorial at the Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project.

There were 450 men in the Old Boys Brigade (2nd Nottingham Brigade) of WWI. The men who died are memorialized at The Oliver Hind Youth Club of Edale Road. These are the names on the plaque at that club:

1. Anderson, E.
2. Baker, C.
3. Burton, W. A.
4. Carter, E.
5. Christmas, C.
6. Clark, E.
7. Clark, S. E.
8. Clarke, R.
9. Colgrave, C.
10. Cook, G.
11. Cooke, W. G.
12. Cumberpatch, Arthur
13. Daniels, F.
14. Elliott, A. G.
15. Else, G. W.
16. Frost, H.
17. Gent, A.
18. George, J.
19. Greenberry, E.
20. Guy, N. G.
21. Hallam, M.
22. Hallam, W.
23. Hamilton, R. W.
24. Hammond, H. C.
25. Hampson, H.
26. Hardy, R.
27. Harrison, A.
28. Higgs, G. M.
29. Hill, G.
30. Hind, Jesse F. M.
31. Hind, Lawrence A.
32. Hind, Oliver A.
33. Hodges, H.
34. Hodson, G.
35. Hudson, F.
36. Hurt, H.
37. Hutchinson, P.
38. Ickes, H.
39. Keward, A.
40. King, E.
41. Lee, H.
42. Mantle, A. F.
43. Marriott, J. W.
44. Marshall, W.
45. McGreavy, B.
46. McGreavy, J.
47. Mitchell, A.
48. Murfet, H.
49. Murphy, W.
50. Musson, J.
51. Newman, C. W.
52. Parker, W. J.
53. Parkes, H.
54. Parkes, P.
55. Prior, G.
56. Roberts, W. J.
57. Robinson, F.
58. Russell, H.
59. Russell-horace
60. Sanders, J. H.
61. Savidge, W. L.
62. Sharpe, G.
63. Shepherd, A.
64. Smith, O.
65. Smith, P.
66. Snowden, A.
67. Soles, W.
68. Spencer, G.
69. Spinks, J.
70. Stones, S.
71. Swain, Arthur
72. Tomlinson, Frank
73. Whitehead, W.
74. Williams, G.
75. Wilson, A. E.

These are the names recorded on St. Stephen's Triptich:

1. Ernest Allen
2. Harry Asker
3. Herbert Ault
4. William Baker
5. John Bales
6. John Barker
7. James Barrie
8. Arthur William Barton
9. Charles Barton
10. William Sydney Baxter
11. Francis William Baxter
12. Wilfred Arthur Beal
13. Edward Gerald Beal
14. Walter Beastall
15. Arthur Bentley
16. William Bentley
17. Charles Bentley
18. Patrick Bentley
19. Harry Bishop
20. H. Bishop
21. George Bradley Blankley
22. Walter Booth
23. John William Bradshaw
24. Ernest William Brotherhood
25. Arthur Gerald Brotherhood
26. Joseph Brown
27. Edward Brown
28. Frederick Brown
29. Allan Camm
30. George Carter
31. Archibald Bertie Chamberlain
32. Ernest Albert Charles
33. William Herbert Cheesman
34. Arthur Clamp
35. John Robert Clark
36. Richard Clarke
37. Samuel Edward Clark
38. Sydney William Clifton
39. William Comery
40. William Cooper
41. Ernest Cooper
42. Richard Rawson Cooper
43. Arthur Gilbert Cope
44. Horace Arthur Cottam
45. Herbert Coulby
46. Elijah Henry Crackle
47. Frank Ewart Cresswell
48. John Edwin Cripwell
49. Francis (Frank) Charles Culley
50. Arthur Edward Cumberpatch
51. William Herbert Dallay
52. Charles Davis
53. Alfred William Denham
54. James Diggle
55. John Donavan
56. Sydney Dore
57. Reginald Dowell
58. Ernest Dowell
59. John Henry Dring
60. Frank Edwards
61. William Charles Ellis
62. George William Else
63. Ernest George Elston
64. Arthur Ford
65. George Harold Fozzard
66. Alfred Claude Gant
67. William Green
68. Walter Gregory
69. George Robinson Gunn
70. Robert William Hamilton
71. William Christopher Hardy
72. Herbert Edward Harris
73. Leonard Harris
74. Frederick Harrison
75. John Henry (Harry) Hayes
76. Frederick William Heggs
77. John Frederick Herod
78. George Hibbert
79. Henry Hibbert
80. W. Hinch
81. Arthur Holbrook
82. Harry Holmes
83. Harold Walter Horton
84. William John Hudson
85. Ernest Henry Hunt
86. Harold Jerram
87. Joseph Jones
88. Thomas Keetley
89. George William Keetley
90. Peter Kenny
91. Horace Arthur Key
92. John Henry Kiddier
93. Frederick Kilbourne
94. Charles Ernest King
95. Frederick Charles Knowles
96. Joseph Tacey (on Memorial as Lacey)
97. Herbert Edwin Lake
98. James Larratt Stanley
99. Samuel Richmond Lawrence
100. Albert Ley
101. George Lockwood
102. Claude Herbert Bertram James Mackintosh
103. Thomas Mallet
104. Henry Maltby
105. Charlie Marcer
106. George Marshall
107. Herbert Marshall
108. Harry Marshall
109. Harry Marshall
110. Robert Marshall
111. Robert Marshall
112. Fred Martin
113. Herbert Martin
114. Joseph Edgar Mason
115. Robert Frederick Meats
116. George Mees
117. Samuel Messom
118. Arthur Mitchell
119. Arthur Mitchell
120. Frederick Morley
121. John William Morrell
122. Andrew Mosley
123. John Munns
124. John Alfred Nathan
125. John Henry Notman
126. Archibald Parker
127. William Henry Petcher
128. George Henry Peters
129. John Basil Pierce
130. Frederick Thomas Potts
131. James Potts
132. Ralph Potts
133. William Edward Potts
134. Francis Norton Pratt
135. Neville Herbert Pratt
136. Frederick Price
137. Thomas Quinn
138. William Rainbow
139. Robert Henry Reynolds
140. George Richardson
141. Arthur Carver Riley
142. Bertie Rose
143. Henry Samples
144. James Richard Sands
145. John William Searson
146. Harold William Searson
147. Edgar Selby
148. George Miller Shacklock
149. Joseph Shaw
150. Arthur Shepherdson
151. William Shipley
152. John Simons
153. William Howard Simpson
154. Thomas Richard Skelton
155. Arthur Smith
156. James Smith
157. Leonard Oswald Smith
158. Thomas Smith
159. William Smith
160. G. Spencer
161. George Spencer
162. Herbert Spencer
163. Jack Squires
164. Frederick Charles Staley
165. Walter Stokes
166. Frank Storey
167. Edward Stretton
168. Arthur William Swain
169. Frederick William Thurman
170. Oliver Thurman
171. Frederick William Tipping
172. Frank Tomlinson
173. Albert Turton
174. William Goodfellow Tweddle
175. Henry Underwood
176. Percy Viccars
177. William Wainwright
178. George Everett Walters
179. Harold Ward
180. George Ward
181. John Ward
182. Herbert West
183. Samuel Wheat
184. Samuel Wheatcroft
185. William White
186. Harold Wigley
187. Arthur Wilson
188. Ernest Wilson
189. Frederick Wilson
190. Harry Wilson
191. Robert Wilson
192. Thomas Winterbottom
193. Arthur Wolfe
194. Leonard Wilson Wolfe
195. Arthur Edward Wood
196. Walter Worthington
197. William Percy Wray
198. William Wright
199. William Cressey Wright
200. Sidney Yealand

Missing from the above list is: Ernest HIND. Obituary: (6th December 1915 in the Nottingham Evening Post):

On December 3rd, at Jeffrey Hall Hospital, Sunderland, Lance-Cpl. Ernest HIND, 1st Sherwood Foresters, 35, Massey-street, aged 26 years. He did his duty. Funeral Tuesday, [7th December 1915] 1 o'clock, General Cemetery.

Nottinghamshire County Council collected the names of a number of veterans from Nottingham, Sneinton and surrounding parishes and hamlets into what they are calling Sneinton Virtual District. You can see their Roll of Honour for the long list of names.

• This place in ancient times was called "Snottengaton" and is thought to be the origin of the name "Nottingham".
   

• This place was an ancient chapelry in county Nottingham.
   
• This place became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake (Hundred) in the eastern division of the county.
   
• On 26 March, 1897, this Civil Parish was abolished and all the area was amalgamated into Nottingham City.
   

• In 1771, Elizabeth TEAGE bequeathed £100 and the interest thereof was distributed to the poor each year.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in February, 1797.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Radford Poor Law Union.
   
• On July 1st, 1880, this parish was re-assigned to the Nottingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	558
1811	953
1821	1,212
1831	3,605
1851	8,440
1861	11,048
1871	12,237
1881	15,473
1901	23,093

• A National School was built here in 1836. The school moved to a new site in 1968 and is now the Sneinton C of E Primary School.