Thoroton

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the grave of Ethel Gordon FENWICK on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.

• 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 chapel was dedicated to Saint Helena.
   
• The church was struck by ligntning and damaged in 1868.
   
• The church was restored in 1869.
   
• The church seats 135.
   
• The church is a Grade I listed structure with British Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2008.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUSTT has a photograph of the Church tower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1583.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1777-1854.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham No. 2.
   
• The parish had a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the early 1900s.
   

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

Thoroton is a small village, township, parochial chapelry and a parish on the north-west bank of the Smite River (or Rivulet). The village stands 4 miles north-east of Bingham, 9 miles south-west of Newark-on-Trent and 125 miles north of London.

If you are planning a visit:

• Thoroton is north of the A52 and east of the A46 trunk roads. Take the A52 east out of Bingham and turn northeast at Aslocton.
   
• Andrew TATLOW provides a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013. You might wish to offer your talent and artistry to embelish this sign.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of Thoroton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of Thoroton Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK765425 (Lat/Lon: 52.974404, -0.862221), Thoroton 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 War Memorial is a white marble plaque with black engraved letters on the north wall of the parish church.

To read the inscription on the War Memorial, see the Southwell Churches History Project site.

These are the names enscribed on the war memorial above:

• This place was an ancient chapelry in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish around 1866.
   
• This place was anciently a Berue of Orston, which lies to the south.
   
• The parish was in north division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the eastern (or southern) part of the county.
   
• In March, 1889, this parish was enlarged by 56 acres taken from Hawksworth Civil Parish.
   
• 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 Bingham petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1799.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   
• William ABBOTT left, some time before 1869, the interest from £25 for poor widows in the parish.
   

Year	Population
1841	120
1851	177
1861	210
1871	188
1881	152
1891	121
1901	88
1911	100
1921	84
1931	105