Woodborough

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• The Woodborough Cemetery was a one acre lot, opened in 1879, but had no chapel for many years.
   
• The Cemetery was administered by the Burial Board of the Parish Council.
   

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1841	H.O. 107 / 867
1851	H.O. 107 / 2128
1861	R.G. 9 / 2444
1891	R.G. 12 / 2677

• It appears that the Saxons had a church here before 1100. The Normans apparently built a small church here around 1150.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Swithun (Swithen or Swithin).
   
• The church was built by the Normans in 1335 on the site of the older church. The tower was built in two stages: 13th century and 15th century.  The chancel is from the 14th century.
   
• The church is on the south side of Main Street.
   
• The church seats 250.
   
• The churchyard was closed by 1881.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the church chancel on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2013.
   

• The Anglican parish registers date from 1547 for baptisms, 1573 for marriages and 1572 for burials and is in good condition.
   
• The parish was in the rural deanery of Southwell (Gedling).
   
• The Baptists, Wesleyan Methodists and Primitive Methodists each had a chapel here by 1869.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Baptist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2010.
   

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

Woodborough is a village and a parish 7 miles north-east of Nottingham city and 141 miles north of the city of London. The parish covers over 1,900 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• The A1 motorway used to run through the village but a modern bypass now skirts the place.
   
• The nearest railway stop is Newark.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• The Romans had a settlement here.
   
• In the 1800s many residents made their living as frame-work knitters.
   
• In the 1800s bricks were also made in the parish.
   
• In 1881 there was a large racehorse breeding and training establishment in the village, with 70 to 80 horses residing.
   
• Visit the Woodborough Heritage Site for more history information.
   

• Woodborough Hall, the seat of Mansfield PARKYNS in 1881, is a very ancient mansion at the extreme end of the village.
   
• In 1869, the BRODHURST family were living in Woodborough Hall.
   
• Woodborough Hall is currently used as a conference centre and hotel. See Woodborough Hall for more information.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK631477 (Lat/Lon: 53.022883, -1.060726), Woodborough 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.

• Outside the church near the northwest corner of the tower is the War Memorial obelisk surmounted by a Celtic cross.
   
• Learn more about the Woodborough War Memorial and the men from World War I who are honored on it.
   

To see the list of names on the War Memorial, see the Southwell Church History Project site.

     1914 - 1918

1. Harry Desborough
2. John Thomas Desborough
3. Frederick Severn Foster
4. William Henry
5. Ernest Orange
6. Harold Orange
7. John William Poole
8. Sidney Richardson
9. Richard Claude Savage
10. Percy Shipstone
11. Arthur Spencer
12. Samuel Spencer
13. George Teather
14. Edmund James Webb
15. Arthur White
16. Leonard Thomas Woodford

     1939 - 1945

1. David Cook
2. James Greaves
3. Reginald Hallam
4. Peter Frederick Paulson
5. Robert Paulson
6. Eric Richardson
7. Wilfred Richardson
8. Arthur Roy Ward

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham.
   
• The parish was in the south division of the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• The parish was also in the Southwell and Scrooby Liberty between 1836 and 1837.
   
• The local Parish Council meets on Mondays on Lingwood Lane. They are NOT staffed to provide family research assistance.
   
• In 1974, the parish joined the new Gedling Borough Council.
   

• The Common Lands were enclosed here in 1798.
   
• Bastardy Cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	527
1811	611
1841	801
1851	852
1871	898
1881	889
1891	768
1901	722

• A Free School was founded here by Reverend Montague WOOD in 1706 (or 1736 - sources differ).
   
• In 1881, the School could accommodate 300 children.
   
• The School is now known as the Woodborough Woods Foundation CofE Primary School.