West Bridgford

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church was built in the 14th century.
   
• The church was restored in 1872 and again in 1899 through 1919.
   
• The church was rebuilt in 1951 and 1971.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of St Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559 and is in fair condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Bingham.
   
• A Wesleyan Methodist church was built here in 1888.
   
• Kate JEWELL has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2009.
   
• Roger TEMPLEMAN has a photograph of the Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2013.
   

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

West Bridgford is a village, a township and a parish on the south bank of the River Trent at the juntion of the Grantham Canal, 2 miles south-east of Nottingham city. The parish covers 3,046 acres. In 1851, the parish covered 1,720 acres and contained the township of Gamston.

The village has become part of the conurbation that is Nottingham city. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the A52 trunk road south out of Nottingham city surrounds the parish.
   
• As this is written, no railway service comes to West Bridgford, but light rail service from Nottingham is planned.
   
• Nottingham City Transport and several other bus services run to West Bridgford.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Bridgford was a Roman settlement.
   
• The Saxons built an extensive fortification here to obstruct the Danes in their efforts to cross the Trent River. The Danes at that time held Nottingham.
   
• In October, 1875, a great flood inundated much of the village under several feet of water.
   
• The floodwaters returned in March, 1947, as this family album snap shows.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK586375 (Lat/Lon: 52.931714, -1.129649), West Bridgford 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 inside the church is a panelled alabaster and slate plaque presented in 1918.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the outside War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2011.
   

On the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli:

1. ELLIOTT Ainslie, Sgt, Derbyshire Yeomanry, age 29, KiA 22/08/1915, service No 671. Son of the late Mr & Mrs Alfred Elliott, of Prospect House, Swanick, Alfreton, Derbyshire, husband of Elsie Elliott, of 36 Henry Rd, West Bridgford.

A portrait of Colonol Sir Lancelot ROLLESTON is to be found in County Hall, West Bridgford. After retiring from the Army he held many offices, including Deputy Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff, and chairman of both Notts County Council and Notts Quarter Sessions.

Jesse Francis Montague HIND, Lieut., 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters, was wounded at Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, in 1914. At the V.A.D. Hospital here, the medico-electrical ward was established in 1917 and was known as the “Monty Hind” ward, founded by Mr. J. W. HIND (father of Lt. HIND).

These are the names on the West Bridgeford War Memorial (both wars):

1. Frank Alcoe
2. John Anderson
3. William Thomas Atkin
4. George Ernest Aylett
5. Ernest Tyzac Barnes
6. Robert Stephen Bates
7. Arthur Edward Beach
8. Harry Beach
9. Edward Gerald Beal
10. Wilfred Arthur Beal
11. William Frederick Beauchamp
12. William Harold Berry
13. Thomas Henry Bewlay
14. Cyril Evers Blurton
15. Cecil Ernest Boaler
16. Thomas Alleyne Bosworth
17. Norman Bowden
18. Sydney Bowden
19. John Brash
20. Edward Bretland
21. Douglas Brewster
22. Charles Clark Briddon
23. Charles Edwin Brodbeck
24. Leonard William Brown
25. Norman Leese Buckley
26. Charles Samuel Bucknall
27. Arthur Bunney
28. Charles Lambley Burton
29. Cecil William Gordon Bush
30. Archibald Butler
31. Frank Buttress
32. Douglas Arthur Buxton
33. William Harold Carter
34. James Chapman
35. Horace Chesham
36. Charles Frank Clarke
37. George Auguste Collier
38. James Cooper
39. John Cooper
40. Percy Newbery Cooper
41. Ernest Cowlishaw
42. Herbert Cumberland
43. Charles Richard Dench
44. George Henry Dixon
45. James Charles Dixon
46. Robert Frederick Drennan
47. William Barnard Duckett
48. George Harry Gordon Dye
49. Samuel Eaton
50. Frank Edwards
51. John Victor Elderkin
52. Ernest Elwick
53. Edward Lake Flewitt
54. Percy Huskinson Forrest
55. Christopher Leonard Freeman
56. Percy William Bailey Freer
57. Albert Claude Gibson
58. Clarence Gervase Gibson
59. Christoper Joseph Gilliatt
60. Harold Frederick Gilliatt
61. Maurice Given
62. Harold Mason Gleave
63. Albert Edward Glover
64. Stanley Goulder
65. Harry Raymond Gray
66. George Sydney Hall
67. Edward Harrison
68. John Henry (Harry) Hayes
69. Leslie Ewart Herrod
70. George Harold Highfield
71. John Mclennan Hine
72. Stanley Hobson
73. James Percival Hodgkinson
74. David Hopkinson
75. John Thomas Horne
76. William Frank Howett
77. Charles Henry Trevor Howitt
78. Arthur Edward Hunt
79. John Hunt
80. Joseph Woodward Hurt
81. William Hurt
82. Cecil Dunbar Hutchinson
83. Roland Frederick Huyton
84. Henry Lawrence Jackson
85. Reginald William Jones
86. Harold Keatley
87. Robert Frederick Keetley
88. Harold Arthur Keeton
89. James Norman Victor Kelly
90. Albert Charles Lacey
91. Bernard Courtney Laws
92. Cecil Willie Laws
93. Leonard Lee
94. James Leeming
95. Herbert Moulsdale Lees
96. Louis Albert Lendis
97. Arthur Herbert Levy
98. Louis Alexander Limon
99. Edwin Tom Lister
100. Alan Bert Littlewood
101. John Richard Long
102. John William Lyon
103. Stephen Watson Marwick
104. Harry James Merry
105. Thomas Henry Moore
106. John Glynne Morris
107. A. Moss (could be Archie Moss)
108. John Stanley Muddeman
109. Albert Oakland
110. John Leslie O'Hara
111. Dinsdale John Arthur Oubridge
112. Frank Parks
113. Alexander Patrick
114. James Anderton Patrick
115. Fredric Percy Loverseed Piggin
116. Ernest Samuel George Pile
117. Reginald Michael Plunkett
118. Horace Edwin Porter
119. William Arthur Powell
120. Stanley Hastings Price
121. Clifford Gregory Prosser
122. Leslie Philip Prowse
123. Harold William Raley
124. Charles Bradley Raynor
125. Harry Rayson
126. William Rayson
127. Harry Worton Redfern
128. Cyril John Rickett
129. Clarence George Sankey
130. Herbert Douglas Scanlon
131. Ernest Scoffield
132. John Henry Scoffield
133. Douglas Albert Scott
134. Thomas Charles Whitehall Shaw
135. Hubert Allison Shaw
136. Oswald Edgar Shepherd
137. Oliver Sheppard
138. Sydney Leverton Simpson
139. Claude Freeman Slawson
140. Harold William Slim
141. Bertram Smith
142. Archibald Edwin Spencer
143. Herbert Spencer
144. J. W. Squires
145. Edgar Charles Stevenson
146. William Henry Stevenson
147. Richard Ewart Pepper Stimpson
148. Joseph Stirland
149. Algernon Harrison Strawson
150. Wallace Randolph Summers
151. George Alfred Tarry
152. H. Taylor
153. M. Thompson
154. Frederic Cuthbert Tonkin
155. William Towers
156. George Frederick Townsend
157. Alan Joseph Chamberlain Turner
158. Reginald Stanley Turner
159. James Knowles Turpin
160. Wilfred Henry Wade
161. William Allan Wagstaff
162. Lawrence Waldron Walker
163. Rollo Waldron Walker
164. Harold Victor Walters
165. L. Walton
166. John Alexander Ward
167. Cyril Ernest Wardle
168. Ronald Webster
169. Maurice Sydney Weston
170. Kingsley Vale Weston
171. Percy Briggs Wheatcroft
172. Edward Widdowson
173. Gervase Widdowson
174. William Benjamin Widdowson
175. William Arthur Wildblood
176. Alfred Richard Williams
177. William Willoughby
178. Alfred Burton Wood
179. Leslie Douglas Woodhouse
180. Arthur Lawrence Worman
181. Edward Leslie Wright
182. Edward Leslie Wright
183. Percy Victor Yaxley
184. Sidney Yealand
185. Arthur Webster Young

• Some in the region refer to this parish as "Bread and Lard Island," an allusion to the fact that you have to cross water to get to West Bridgford from Nottingham, and that Nottingham folk regarded West Bridgford people as pretentious. Living in big houses, wearing smart clothes, yet having to live on Bread and Lard. (Thank you, Brian Binns, 2013).

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
   
• The township of Gamston became its own Civil Parish when West Bridgford was formed as a Civil Parish.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Bingham Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
   
• In March, 1889, this parish was reduced in size to enlarge Edwalton Civil Parish.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by 831 acres when Edwalton Civil Parish was abolished.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by 1,548 acres when South Wilford Civil Parish was abolished.
   
• North Wilford was amalgamated into the City of Nottingham.
   
• The village is now part of the Rushcliffe Borough Council. Several Wards were created to compensate for the large population (Lady Bay, Edwalton, Abbey, Compton Acres.)
   

• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.

Year	West Bridgford	Gamston
1801	235	97
1841	235
1851	258	124
1861	280	110
1881	293	99
1901	7,018	96

• The parish had a Free School, latter called a Church of England School. This school was rebuilt in 1865.