West Burton

The Library at East Retford will prove useful in your research.

Alternatively, the Gainsborough Library also has a Local History section.

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

• The Anglican parish church (chapel, really, was dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• The church was tiny and seated only 26 people.
   
• The church closed in the mid 1800s and was demolished in 1886.
   
• The churchyard is still used for burials. Alan MURRAY-RUST provides a photograph of a modern gravestone on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2007.
   
• You can read more about his church at the Southwell Church History Project.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1602.
   
• The church was in the rural #1 deanery of Retford.
   

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

This village and parish are about 3 miles south-west of Gainsborough and 1.5 miles north-east of Sturton. The River Trent forms the eastern county border with Lincolnshire and the village of Sturton le Steeple lies to the south. The parish covers 932 acres.

The village stands in the shadow of the power station cooling towers. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A631 west out of Gainsborough and turn south at Beckingham to Saundby. Pass through Bole and continue south to the power stations.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST provides a photograph of the cooling towers at the power station on the Geo-graph site, taken in June, 2006.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• This parish was mostly pasturage for thousands of years.
   
• The parish was also known for the number of willow trees grown here in the old bed of the River Trent.
   
• The parish is known today for its power stations, built on the site of the deserted medieval village.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK798851 (Lat/Lon: 53.356768, -0.802481), West Burton 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 no War Memorial recorded for West Burton.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county, and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• In September, 1895, this parish gained a small portion of Lea Civil Parish (Lincolnshire) when the border was adjusted to match the new bed of the River Trent.
   
• District governance is provided for by the Bassetlaw District Council, but there are virtually no constituents left in the parish.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the parish became part of the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	33
1841	35
1851	28
1861	67
1871	56
1901	51