Stapleford

The Artisans' Library, established in 1837, had about 514 volumes.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the new Stapleford Library, built in the 1980s, on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.

The Library is generally open 5 days per week and includes a Local History section to assist you with your search.

The Library at Nottingham will also prove useful in your research.

• The Stapleford Cemetery, set aside in 1878 and opened in 1881, is on the Nottingham road (Now Cemetery Road) and covers about 4 acres. It was managed by a Parish Council Burial Board.
   
• The Cemetery Chapel was gifted to the people of Stapleford in 1880 by Mr. Joseph FEARFIELD. The Cemetery Bell was cast in 1885 and has recently been refurbished and put aback into use.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photogaph of the gateway to Stapleford Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2018.
   
• Stephen McKAY has a photograph taken inside the Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the churchyard gates on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen nd is built in the Early English style.
   
• The church was consecrated around 1220.
   
• It is believed that an older, smaller church existed on the same spot during the time of Edward the Confessor.
   
• The church spire has twice been shattered by lightning.
   
• In the 15th Century the church was thoroughly restored and a clerestory added.
   
• The church was repaired and modernised in 1785 and 1819. A porch was added in 1785.
   
• In 1878 extensive repairs and alterations were performed.
   
• The church is Grade II listed with British Heritage.
   
• The church seats 400.
   
• Jeff TOMLINSON has a photograph of the Anglo Saxon Cross in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2003.
   
• David KELLY has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1655 and is in very good condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bulwell.
   
• The Anglican Church has a memorial to Thomas WHITELEY.
   
• There is also a memorial to Gervais TAVEREY and his wife who died in 1639.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here in 1782. Ian S. has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
   
• Andrew ABBOTT has a photograph of the Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2020.
   
• The Particular Baptists also had a chapel here built in 1875 replacing an earlier chapel.
   
• The Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Evangelist was built in 1951. Ian CALDERWOOD has a photograph of the RC Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2018.

   

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

Stapleford is a parish, a village and the head of a civil sub-district. The parish is in the southern division of Nottinghamshire. It lies 127 miles north of London, and 6 miles south-west of the centre of Nottingham city. The parish covered 1,253 acres.

The village stands near the Erewash River. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, from Tuxford (which is on the A1), take the B1164 south to Weston.
   
• Christine JOHNSTONE has a photograph of the Footbridge from Sandiacre to Stapleford on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2010. The approach to this bridge can be very muddy.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

The future Admiral John Borlase WARREN was born here in September 1753. In 1771 he entered the navy as an able seaman. He became an admiral in 1810. He died on 27 February 1822.

Arthur Henry MEE, the writer, journalist and educator, and author of "The King's England" was born in Stapleford in 1875.

• Stapleford is home to the Hemlock Stone on Stapleford Hill. It is approximately 200 million years old, dating to the Triassic Period.
   
• Stapleford was a Roman settlement.
   
• Coal and Ironstone were mined in this parish.
   
• The village was known for its lacework in the 1800s when the stocking hose trade thrived in the Midlands.
   
• The village feast was held on the Sunday before Old Saint Luke's day (18 October).
   
• The Jaguar pub in Hickings Lane in Stapleford closed in 2014.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Magpie Inn on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007. This is a relatively new establishment..
   

• Stapleford Hall was built by Admiral Sir John Borlase WARREN in 1797,
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK491374 (Lat/Lon: 52.931694, -1.270792), Stapleford 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 monument in the church to the only son of Admiral Sir John Borlase WARREN, baronet, who was killed at the Battle of Aboukir, 1 Aug. 1798. This battle is also known as Horatio Nelson's Battle of the Nile.
   
• The War Memorial for the First World War is in the Memorial Chapel. It carries 188 names.
   
• The Rose Garden in Walter Parker VC Memorial Square on the Derby Road is the War Memorial for the parish.
   

Ian S. has a photograph of the Memorial Plaque to Lance Corporal Walter Richard PARKER who won the VC for bravery in World War One. The photograph was taken in July, 2016.

The names on St. Helen's War Memorial plaque. dedicated in 1924, can be found at the Nottinghamshire War Memorial site.

The Great War Bulletin for December 6th, 1915, reveals that 21-year-old Lieutenant George CAMPBELL had left England to join his unit overseas: He was in the armoured motor car section of the Royal Marine Artillery, which was in charge of the quick-firing guns.

These are the names from the church War Memorial:

1. Arthur Edward Alldridge
2. Ernest Annable
3. George Armstrong
4. Edward Henry Arnold
5. George Frederick Atkin
6. J. Atkin
7. Clarence Henry Austin
8. Horace Charles Ball
9. Joseph Arthur Barber
10. Joseph Bardill
11. John Barker
12. Wilfred Henry Barksby
13. George Edwin Barrowcliff
14. Alfred Barson
15. Ernest Barson
16. Neville Barson
17. Frederick Joseph Beale
18. Albert E. Blackler
19. Clarence Bowley
20. Joseph William Bowmer
21. Cyril G. Brian
22. David Brigg
23. Harold Joseph Briggs
24. Edward Brookes
25. Fred Brown
26. John Brown
27. James William Brown
28. Reginald Brown
29. Walter James Brudenell
30. Frederick Edward Bullock
31. Edward Thomas Bunce
32. John Burns
33. Herbert Burrows
34. Thomas Henry Burton
35. William Henry Burton
36. Alfred Bush
37. Herbert Edmund Carlin
38. Stephen Carlin
39. Arthur Henry Cavey
40. Harold S. Chamberlin
41. Joseph Henry Clarke
42. William Ernest Clay
43. George Austin Clayton
44. Albert Cleaver
45. Jabez Clifford
46. Harold Coomber
47. Albert Cordon
48. Leonard Cosway
49. Jabez William Crowson
50. Ernest Creed
51. Albert Edward Cresswell
52. Bernard William Crouch
53. Leonard Crouch
54. Thomas Davis
55. William Davis
56. Harry Hooley Daykin
57. Thomas Daykin
58. William George Domleo
59. Frederick James Dove
60. Bert Faulkner
61. Alfred George Field
62. Alfred Figg
63. Bertie Stanley Fletcher
64. Percy Fletcher
65. Owen Clay Ford
66. William Foulger
67. Frederick Furmidge
68. Charles Emmanuel Geeson
69. George William Gill
70. Alfred Henry Gould
71. Harry Greasley
72. Charles Henry Green
73. John Thomas Greensmith
74. George Binnie Greig
75. Ronald Griffin
76. Albert Leslie Grundy
77. John William Gunn
78. John Hadlinton
79. James Hall
80. W. Alan Hall
81. A. Hallam
82. Edmund Arthur Hallam
83. William Hallam
84. John Henry Hallam
85. William Hallam
86. Ernest Hardy
87. Joseph Hardy
88. Oliver C. Hardy
89. Enoch Benjamin Harris
90. Albert Edward Harrison
91. Benjamin Hawkins
92. Elijah Henshaw
93. James Hind
94. Richard Hindson
95. Arthur Hogg
96. Rex Harold Hooks
97. Walter Hooton
98. Thomas Henry Hopewell
99. William Henry Horrobin
100. John Henry Hoult
101. John Thomas Hutton
102. Harold Ernest James Jackson
103. James Jacques (Jakes)
104. Arthur Jacques
105. John William Leslie Keeley
106. Albert Keeling
107. George William Kerry
108. Oscar Arthur Kerry
109. Frank Kirk
110. Frederick Langham
111. Frederick Langham
112. Joseph Leek
113. Frederick John Lewin
114. Harold Ernest Longmire
115. Albert Edward Lowe
116. Thomas Lynes
117. Arthur Marriott
118. Arthur Ernest Medhurst
119. John Shardlow Mellows
120. Stuart Bowie Melville
121. Samuel B. Merriman
122. Ernest Augustus Mettam
123. Albert Edward Mew
124. Thomas Mills
125. George Edmund Minton
126. Albert Henry Mirfin
127. John Charles Mitchell
128. Thomas Henry Moore
129. Sidney Herbert Morley
130. Arthur Mosley
131. C. Mosley
132. Joseph Needham
133. Ernest Newbold
134. George Newbold
135. J. Newbold
136. E. Newton
137. Ernest Charles Newton
138. James Vincent Oldershaw
139. Lawrence Wiliam Oldershaw
140. Thomas Henry Pacey
141. C. W. Page
142. Amos Parker
143. Herbert George Pendrell
144. Bert Gwinnett Phillips
145. George Thomas Phipps
146. George Edwin Pickett
147. Percy Pollard
148. John Enoch Repton
149. Walter John Rhodes
150. Collin Ridgway
151. Charles Scholes
152. Thomas Henry Selby
153. Joseph Hinton Sellwood
154. James Alec Shaw
155. Arthur Shepherd
156. William John Shepherd
157. Ernest Simpkins
158. Albert Smedley
159. Ernest Smith
160. William Edward Smith
161. John Strachan Starbuck
162. Walter Joseph Summerlin
163. Harry G. Taylor
164. John Joseph Thompson
165. Frederick Thornhill
166. Alfred Reginald Tinsley
167. John Hugh Tomlinson
168. Isaac Arthur Tucker
169. Thomas Tunaley
170. Ernest Tunnicliffe
171. Thomas Vernon
172. James Eric Wainwright
173. Noel Wainwright
174. David Ernest Walker
175. Ernest Walker
176. Joshua Wall
177. Ernest Albert Wallis
178. Jack Yates Wallis
179. Francis George Swann Walters
180. Charles Edward Watkin
181. George Watson
182. Arthur Edward Webster
183. John Wheat
184. John Whitehead
185. Albert Arthur Wiggin
186. Albert Edward Winfield
187. Walter Woodruffe
188. William George York

The parish name is first noted in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears spelt as now.

Locals oftern refer to the town as "Stabbo".

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the south division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish was abolished to set up the new parish of Beeston and Stapleford.
   
• You may contact the Stapleford Town Council regarding civic or political matters, but they CANNOT help you with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Broxtowe Borough Council.

• The Common Land was enclosed in 1795.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Shardlow Poor Law Union. Shardlow is in Derbyshire.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	748
1851	1,968
1861	1,729
1871	1,967
1881	3,196
1891	4,255
1901	5,766
1911	7,789
1921	8,513
1931	8,838

• In 1836 a large National School was built here, near the east end of the village on Nottingham Road. It was endowed by Lady Caroline WARREN.
   
• The Board School was built of red brick and opened in November, 1880. It could hold 300 students.
   
• ALAN MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former National School on Church Street on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2018.