Sutton in Ashfield

The Sutton-in-Ashfield Library is a wheelchair-friendly facility that has a Local History Section and a Newspaper and Magazine Section as well. It is generally open six days per week. Affiliated with the Library is a General Registry Office open only 5 days per week. The Library is located at:

• Sutton-in-Ashfield Library
• Idlewells Shopping Centre
• Sutton-in-Ashfield
• Nottinghamshire
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• Tele: 01623 677 200

• BONSER, George Gershom, "History of Sutton-in-Ashfield, Fulwood, and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite," publ. British Library, 1993, ISBN 13: 9781241606244.
   

• The Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery, opened in 1893, is on Hutchwaith Road and originally covered 10 acres.
   
• The Ashfield District Council has an online index to burials. Select "Burials" for a search argument.
   
• Also check Ashfield Cemetery Records Online, which is the same database.
   
• The Cemetery is administered by the Urban District Council.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene.
   
• There was a Christian church here in 1170.
   
• Most of the church structure was built in the 14th century.
   
• The church was restored and enlarged in 1868.
   
• The church seats 600.
   
• A Yew tree in the churchyard was over 800 years old.
   
• Ann B. has a photograph of St. Mary Magdalene Church on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2006.
   
• There was a Church Institute in Hardwick Street that was formed into an ecclesiastical parish of Saint Michael and All Angels in October, 1910. A church was soon erected, built of stone and seating 650.
   

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1577.
   
• Registers for the Church of St. Michael and All Angels date from 1903 for baptisms and 1910 for marriages.
   
• The parish was in the deanery of Mansfield.
   
• The Baptists had a chapel built here in 1811.
   
• The Independents (Congregationalists) had a chapel here 1651 and erected a new one in 1906.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here before 1869, but built a new one in 1882.
   
• The Primitve Methodists had a chapel here in 1866.
   
• A Methodist chapel was built in Hucknall-under-Huthwaite before 1869.
   
• A Methodist Free Church was built in Hucknall-under-Huthwaite before 1869.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the United Reformed Church, built in 1906, on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   

• The parish was in the Sutton in Ashfield sub-district in the Mansfield Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Sutton-in-Ashfield is a parish comprised of the townships of Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall-under-Huthwaite. The parish is 140 miles north of London, 8 miles south-west of Mansfield and covers over 6,000 acres.

Forest Side and Sutton Woodside are parts of this parish. If you are planning a visit:

• Sutton in Ashfield is, and was, referred to as just Sutton. Sutton Bonnington is a separate parish.
   
• Huthwaite Online provided by Gary Elliott.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• The University of Leicester has History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1832 online. Select page 599.
   
• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
   

From: "A Topographical Dictionary of England", by Samuel LEWIS, 7th Edition, 1848, Vol 4, p.277:

"SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD (St Mary), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, northern division of the wapentake of Broxtow and of the county of Nottingham, 3 1/2 miles west-south-west from Mansfield; containing, with the hamlet of Hucknall-under-Huthwaite, 6,557 inhabitants [in 1848], of whom 5,670 are in Sutton township.

The village is situated on an eminence, and comprises several streets, covering a considerable extent of ground : limestone of excellent quality abounds in the vicinity. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the manufacture of cotton hose and lace. A few persons find employment in making a coarse kind of red pottery ware; and the Mansfield and Pinxton railway, which passes through the parish, affords facility for conveying the produce. A Book Society has been established for several years. There is a small customary market for provisions on Saturday.

The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, without surplice fees, 100 pounds; patron, the Duke of DEVONSHIRE; impropriator, the Duke of PORTLAND: the tithes were commuted for land in 1794. The church which stands on an eminence, has a handsome octagonal spire. There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists, Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans; and a national school for boys is partly supported by about 10 pounds per annum from benefactions.

Near the village is Mapple Wells, the water of which has been successfully used in rheumatic cases.

Joseph WHITEHEAD, a frame-work knitter, remarkable for his attainments in astronomy and mechanics, and who constructed an orrery upon Ferguson's principle, and other complicated pieces of machinery, was born here in 1784."

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutton in Ashfield to another place.

• In the 1800s, many inhabitants were frame-work knitters.
   
• The Town Hall was constructed of brick in 1890.
   
• Cattle fairs were held on the second Tuesday in April and the last Tuesday in September.
   
• A Cheese fair was held with the Cattle fair on the last Tuesday in September.
   
• The parish held a feast for residents on the second Sunday after July 10th.
   
• Find more detail at Nottinghamshire History.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK489590 (Lat/Lon: 53.125934, -1.270691), Sutton in Ashfield 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.
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• In 1912, Company C of the 8th Battalion, Sherwwod Foresters, had its headquarters here at the Drill Hall on Alfreton Road. Lieut. M. C. MARTYN, commanding; Color-Sergt. Richard John COURTNEY, drill instructor.
   
• At the beginning of World War I, this unit was assigned to guard the Great Northern Railway. A number of the men in the unit were found unfit for active military service or were disqualified due to age, family and business ties, and other reasons. The unit marched to Derby for training.
   
• There are 65 Commonwealth War Graves in Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery.
   
• Trevor RICKARD has a photograph of the WWII Memorial Churchgates on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
   
• Trevor RICKARD also has a photograph of the War Memorial for both World Wars on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2011.
   

This is the list of names from the War Memorial in the churchyard:

1. Benjamin William Adams
2. Ernest Leonard Adams
3. John George Adkin
4. John Allatt
5. Ernest Allsop
6. George Frederick Allsop
7. George William Allsop
8. Horace Allsop
9. Sampson George Allsop
10. Tom Alvey
11. Sibery Antill
12. C. Bacon
13. Wilfred Baggaley
14. Leonard Baguley
15. William Baguley
16. S. Baines
17. George Baldwin
18. Frederick Ball
19. William Barksby
20. George Barnes
21. Cyril James Barratt
22. Richard Barton
23. George Bath
24. Albert Edward Baugh
25. Squire James Baugh
26. George Bean
27. William Henry Bean
28. Thomas Frederick Beardall
29. William Ernest Beardsley
30. Albert Beastall
31. George Beastall
32. Joseph Beresford
33. George Berry
34. Samuel Berry
35. Ernest Bills
36. William James Bills
37. Bertie Binch
38. Joseph William Bird
39. Felvus Frederick Birks
40. Alfred Blinkhorn
41. Harry Blinkhorn
42. Josiah Blythe
43. Geoffrey Alwyn Gershom Bonser
44. William Boot
45. W. J. Booth
46. Harold Bowler
47. Verney Bradder
48. Thomas Bradford
49. Robert Edward Bradshaw
50. Frank William Brailsford
51. George Brailsford
52. John Edward Bramley
53. Samuel Bramley
54. Albert Irving (Iving) Brammer
55. Arthur Brassington
56. Thomas Breedon
57. William Henry Briggs
58. Clarence Brown
59. John Henry Toon Brownlow
60. John Leslie Buckland
61. John Buckley
62. Walter Buckley
63. Fred Bucklow
64. Samuel William Bunfield
65. David Burgess
66. Edward Burton
67. John George Burton
68. Stephen Burton
69. Horace Butler
70. William Henry Edward Butterworth
71. Edward Buttery
72. Ernest Buxton
73. George Gersham Buxton
74. Frederick Scott Byron
75. Thomas Campbell
76. Joseph Cantwell
77. Hilary Carlin
78. Fred Carter
79. Cecil Caunt
80. Frederick Caunt
81. Jesse B. Caunt
82. Percy Caunt
83. Robert Caunt
84. Reginald Corns
85. Thomas George Ceney
86. Bertrand George William Clark
87. Francis Edward Scott Clarke
88. Stanley Clark
89. Joseph Anthony Clayton
90. Arthur Oswald Clayton
91. William Dexter Clowes
92. John Cobb
93. Charles Frederick Coleman
94. George Coleman
95. Frank William Coleman
96. Harry Colley
97. Alfred Cook
98. Harold Cook
99. Arthur Cooke
100. H. Cooper
101. William Copestake
102. Albert Edward Corson
103. Albert Edward Cotton
104. Sampson Cotton
105. Albert Crampton
106. Harry Critchlow
107. Thomas Edward Crofts
108. John Charles Cudworth
109. Arthur Cutts
110. John William Dallison
111. Harry Davies
112. Thomas William Davis
113. Sidney Day
114. Samuel Denby
115. Cyril Dennis
116. John Henry Dennis
117. John William Dexter
118. James Doncaster
119. Harry Dorn
120. Archie Dove
121. Ernest Dove
122. Henry Dove
123. Peter Dove
124. Samuel Adlington Dove
125. William Dove
126. John Dudley
127. John William Edwards
128. Henry Egner
129. Fred Evans
130. William Farnsworth
131. Henry Farrands
132. James Fisher
133. Frank Fitchett
134. Arthur Fowler
135. John William Fowler
136. Samuel Fowler
137. Harry Fox
138. Walter James Fox
139. Arthur Ernest Freeman
140. Walter Freeman
141. Aaron Gannon
142. Charles Gascoigne
143. George Eli Geary
144. Thomas James Gent
145. Harry Gibbard
146. Arthur Gittins
147. Frank Godson
148. William Godson
149. John Thomas Goodall
150. Isaiah Gough
151. Thomas Greaves
152. Victor Greaves
153. Charles Alfred Green
154. Arthur Gregory
155. Frank Gregory
156. John Thomas Gregory
157. Samuel Gregory
158. Herbert Groves
159. Robert Guy
160. Joseph Hadfield
161. William Hale
162. Ernest Hall
163. H. Hall
164. John Arthur Hall
165. Joseph Gershom Hall
166. Thomas (E.) George Hall
167. Thomas George Hall
168. George Hallam
169. Samuel Hallam
170. Albert Harold Hardy
171. John Henry Hardy
172. Lancelot Harris
173. William Harris
174. Frederick Harrison
175. Walter Harrison
176. George Hastings
177. John Robert Hatcliffe
178. Henry Hawksley
179. James (Jim) Hayes
180. Leonard Hayes
181. Samuel Heath
182. Harry Heathcote
183. Thomas Heathcote
184. Douglas Hepworth
185. Henry James Jephson Hepworth
186. Frederick Herring
187. James William Herring
188. Albert Victor Hewitt
189. Charles William Hebbards
190. Ernest Henry Hinton
191. George Hinton
192. Samuel Hodgkinson
193. Luke Holland
194. John Holmes
195. George William Holmes
196. James Cartledge Hooley
197. Harry Hopkinson
198. Alfred Housley
199. Harold Hunt
200. Alfred Huskinson
201. Clarence Hutchinson
202. Everett Hutchinson
203. Frank Hutchinson
204. Harry Hutchinson
205. Percy Cyril Frank Hutchinson
206. David Irving
207. Frederick William Jeanes
208. Enoch Johnson
209. Henry Johnson
210. William Henry Johnson
211. Maurice Jones
212. John Henry Keighley
213. Thomas Anthony Kerry
214. Cyril Kidger
215. John James Kirk
216. Matthew Henry Knowles
217. James Lee
218. Douglas Dalziel Leverton
219. Jack Leverton
220. Bertie Clarke Liley
221. Gordon Lockley
222. William Lowbridge
223. Joseph Frederick Mallen
224. Albert Marriott
225. Alfred Marriott
226. Frederick Marriott
227. George Marriott
228. Alfred Roebuck Marsh
229. George William Marsh
230. Harold Marsh
231. James Marsh
232. Robert Henry Marsh
233. Leslie Marshall
234. Thomas Green Marshall
235. Samuel Martin
236. Thomas Massey
237. William Matchett
238. Bertie McCubbin
239. William McCubbin
240. Walter Meakin
241. Cyril Mellors
242. Arthur Middleton
243. Albert Miller
244. Charles Davy Miller
245. Joseph Miller
246. Wilfrid Edmund Millership
247. Ralph Franklin Mills
248. Arthur Moore
249. Cyril Moore
250. Fred Morley
251. John Morley
252. Joseph Parsons Morley
253. Ernest Morrell
254. Matthew Benjamin Morris
255. Walter Morris
256. William Owen Morris
257. James Neal
258. Arthur Newstead
259. John Thomas Nicholls
260. Peter Harold Nightingale
261. John North
262. Robert Dudley North
263. William Norwood
264. Albert Ernest Oakley
265. George Charles Kennedy Osborne
266. Ira Paling
267. Thomas Parbutt
268. Peter Parker
269. Peter Wilson Percy Parkes
270. John Parkin
271. John William Parnell
272. J. E. Payne
273. S. A Payne
274. J. W. Pearce
275. Stephen Pemblington
276. Charles Peplow
277. Edwin Pepper
278. John Pickard
279. John William Pickbourne
280. Wilfred Harry Picken
281. William Henry Potter
282. John Edward Pryme
283. Samuel A. Pryme
284. William Pursglove
285. Alfred Radford
286. James Radford
287. John George Radford
288. Absalom Randle
289. Thomas Randle
290. Thomas Randle
291. Arthur Reeves
292. Charles James Reeves
293. Jesse Reeves
294. George Renshaw
295. Bernard Revill
296. James William Revill
297. John Revill
298. John Thomas Richards
299. W. Richards
300. John Wilfred Richardson
301. Percy Edward Richardson
302. Leonard Riley
303. Edward Charles Roberts
304. George William Roberts
305. Samuel Bernard Roberts
306. Charles William Robinson
307. Arthur Rockley
308. Arthur Roebuck
309. William James Rogers
310. Stanley Ronalds
311. Allen Charles Brooks Roper
312. John William Roper
313. Albert Edward Sale
314. Jonathan Sanderson
315. Walter Sanderson
316. Trevor Thomas Sargent
317. Albert Saunders
318. Albert Saunders
319. Joseph Nuttall Saunders
320. Joseph Savage
321. Stanley Saxton
322. John William Scothern
323. Alfred Marriott (Scott)
324. Horace Scott
325. Albert Searson
326. Harry Searson
327. John Herbert Shardlow
328. Alfred Shaw
329. Samuel Shaw
330. Samuel Shawcroft
331. George William Shelton
332. Herbert Shooter
333. Samuel Sills
334. George Simms
335. Richard Simms
336. Walter Singleton
337. Frank Sissons
338. Cecil John Slack
339. Harold Thomas Slack
340. Herbert Slack
341. Frederick James Slaney
342. Alfred Lewis Slater
343. Arthur Smith
344. Cyril Smith
345. Euphrates Smith
346. Sidney Arthur Smith
347. William Smith
348. W. Smith
349. W. Smith
350. Arthur Snaith
351. Samuel Soar
352. George William Spavound
353. Samuel Horace Spencer
354. William Henry Spencer
355. Harry Squires
356. Daniel Staley
357. Joseph Staley
358. George Stendall
359. Joseph Stendall
360. Joseph Henry Stocks
361. William Stocks
362. Cyril Carfield Straw
363. Ernest Swann
364. Lewis Swindell
365. William Ernald Tagg
366. Arthur Taylor
367. George Isaac Taylor
368. Harold Taylor
369. J. Thompson
370. John James Thompson
371. Joseph Thompson
372. William Henry Tipping
373. Charles Edward Townsend
374. Fred Townsend
375. George Townsend
376. Herbert Trenam
377. Arthur Turner
378. Ernest Turner
379. E. W. Turner
380. Harry Turner
381. Horace William Turner
382. Joseph Turner
383. Robert Turner
384. William Turner
385. Arthur John Turpie
386. George Turton
387. Walter Turton
388. Matthew Hiram Vardy
389. John William Varley
390. William Wain
391. Robert Waldron
392. Albert Radford Walker
393. Wilfred Walker
394. William James Walker
395. Frank Wallace
396. Thomas Wallace
397. Rowland Arthur Walters
398. George Walton
399. John George Walton
400. Charles Ward
401. Thomas Leslie Ward
402. Arthur Andrew Wass
403. Bernard Arthur Wass
404. George H. Watson
405. Horace Webster
406. Horace Webster
407. George Samuel Wheawall
408. Gershom Whetton
409. George Haddon White
410. George Taylor Whyman
411. Douglas Wilcockson
412. Gershom Wildsmith
413. Wilfred Wildsmith
414. William Wildsmith
415. W. H. Wilkinson
416. Arthur Edward Wilks
417. Arthur Williams
418. W. J. Williams
419. Tom Willoughby
420. Thomas Douglas Wilson
421. Walter William Wilson
422. Sidney Andrew Wingrove
423. Arthur Edward Woolley
424. Henry Wilsoncroft
425. John Wilsoncroft
426. Thomas Wilsoncroft
427. F. Wright
428. Henry Gordon Wright
429. James Young

The local newspaper was the Nottinghamshire Free Press, published every Friday by Frederick William BUCK & Sons. Publication started in 1885. Publication ended in 1986 when it amalgamated with the Recorder: Mansfield and Sutton.

• This parish was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the north division of Nottinghamshire.
   
• This parish was in the north division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• Sutton-in-Ashfield formed an Urban District Council in December, 1894.
   
• District governance is provided by the Ashfield District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Mansfield petty session hearings held at the Police Court every week.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1798.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Mansfield Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	3,311
1831	4,805
1841	5,734
1851	7,692
1861	7,643
1871	7,574
1881	8,523
1891	10,562
1901	18,943

• A National School for both sexes was built here in 1845. The school was originally established in 1819, but quickly became too small for its purpose.
   
• A National School in Hucknall-under-Huthwaite was built in 1867.