Teversall

The Library at Mansfield will prove useful in your research.

You can also use the Sutton-in-Ashfield Library.

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

• There is no church mentioned here in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• The Anglican parish church, built of stone, is dedicated to Saint Catherine (or Katherine).
   
• The church was built in the 11th and 12th centuries.
   
• This church was enlarged in 1617.
   
• The church closed for two months in 1795 and then re-opened after a full repair.
   
• The church is on the south side of Buttery Lane.
   
• St Katherine's Church is Grade I listed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
   
• The church seats 170 people.
   
• You can find a photo and history of the church.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of St. Katherine's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.
   
• Chris MORGAN also has a photograph of St. Katherine's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.
   
• Church Crawler has a photograph of St. Catherine's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2004.
   
• There was also a St. Mary's Church in tha parish, circa 1750.
   

• The Anglican parish registers exist from 1571 and are in fair condition.
   
• Between 1653 and 1676 there is a gap in the marriage register entries.
   
• The church was in the #1 deanery of Nottingham.
   

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

Teversal is a village and a parish on a height, about 144 miles north of London and 4 miles west of Mansfield. The parish covers 2,820 acres and the northern and western borders of the parish are Derbyshire.

The village is just south of a source for the Meden River. If you are planning a visit:

• Teversall lies just east off the M1 motorway near Tibshelf and south of the A167 trunk road between Mansfield and Chesterfield.
   
• Alan WALKER has a photograph of the heart of Teversall Village on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2017.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Here is some Medieval Genealogy of families in the parish (circa 1530).

Taversall was an active coal-mining area. For more information, check these:

• Britain's Active Mining History Society.
   
• "Nottinghamshire's Mining Industry in 1896 - A List of Coal Mines".
   
• Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd..
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph from the Teversal Coal Garden just west of the village on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.

The railway reached the village in 1869.

David BEVIS has a photograph of the Carnarvon Pub. at Fackley on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2016.

D. H. LAWRENCE made Teversall the home of the fictional character Lady Chatterley in his famous novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Taversal Manor Gateway on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2017.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK483618 (Lat/Lon: 53.151155, -1.279236), Teversall 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 classical marble and slate War Memorial tablet that was mounted in the church on 18 July 1920.

There are five names on the plaque in St. Katherine's Church:

1. Frederick Froggatt
2. Frank Hallam
3. Geoffrey Harry Machin
4. Horace Cecil Swallow
5. John Robert Swallow

There are two Commonwealth War Graves in the churchyard extension cemetery - one from each World War.

These are the two names listed on the CWGC site:

The name Teversall is frequently found with only one trailing "L", as in "Teversal". And many are tempted to spell it "Taversall". In the 1086 Domesday Book, the name is rendered as "Tevreshalt", from the Old English word "tiefrere".

Many maps in the UK use the "Teversal" spelling, as does Wikipedia and the local Football (Soccer) club.

• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013. When it is open, stop in and request a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• For governance, the parish was in the north division of the ancient Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the Northern division of the county.
   
• District governance is provided by the Ashfield District Council.
   

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

Year	Population
1801	333
1831	400
1841	423
1851	373
1861	351
1881	415
1901	473