tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31606415961104701202024-03-09T18:46:05.957-08:00Notts VillagesNotts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-65470644881057666832020-06-30T04:58:00.004-07:002021-10-08T01:26:51.854-07:00Upton<br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The name 'Upton' literally means "Up town" as the village sits on a hill top commanding a grand view over the Trent valley with the beautiful Southwell Minster only a couple of miles to the west.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Upton has a close artistic community with at least six artists taking part in the annual <a href="https://www.osnotts.co.uk/open-studios-notts-2020/upton-southwell-lowdham/" target="_blank">Open Studios Notts</a> event. This is a wonderful way to spend a day: wandering round this lovely village, popping in to chat with local artists, viewing their work and ending with tea and cakes in a local café or a pint in the pub beer garden. Unfortunately the event was cancelled for 2020 but follow the link above and you can enjoy a virtual tour.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Here is Upton Church by <a href="https://susan-isaac.co.uk/" target="_blank">Susan Isaac</a>:</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We began our visit at Upton Hall home of the British Horological Institute. <a href="https://www.museumoftimekeeping.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Museum of Timekeeping</a> is usually open to the public (but closed due to Corona Virus at the moment). It holds some quite beautiful timepieces (the watch worn by Captain Scott on his final polar expedition in 1912, for example) and there are fascinating bits of information to pick up (Were you aware that the H in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Samuel" target="_blank">H Samuel</a> the famous jeweller stands for HARRIET? No, me neither!). The Institute holds special events throughout the year, plus courses and there is an extensive specialist library for researchers (open by appointment only).</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Hall was built in 1828 for Nottinghamshire banker, Thomas Wright (1773 - 1845). Wright was an amateur landscape painter and an avid art collector so the Hall was designed to house his paintings. Wright was a patron of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner" target="_blank">J M W Turner</a> and had such an interest in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilson_(painter)" target="_blank"> Richard Wilson</a> he wrote a biography of the artist which he published in 1824.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In 1895 the property was purchased by John Warwick of 'Warwick and Richardson Brewers', Newark. There was obviously plenty of money to be made in beer ... the Warwicks overhauled the Hall by adding a Billiard Room, a Ball Room and six extra bed rooms. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">John's father Richard Warwick had acquired a small brewery in 1856. This company merged with Trent Brewery in 1888; four years later they acquired their main Newark rivals, the Henry Jessop Brewery and the Cromwell Brewery; five years later they had moved further afield taking over the Doncaster company of Eadon and Co before then buying out Morris Rutland of Oakham. Their empire continued to grow until the 1950 when the brewery and around 100 pubs were bought out by John Smith's of Tadcaster who, unfortunately, stopped trading in 1966.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">He had been stationed in the Middle East but was returning to France on board the <a href="http://www.radcliffeontrentww1.org.uk/a-timeline-1/a-timeline-14/" target="_blank">Leasowe Castle</a> when it was torpedoed by a German submarine at 1.30am on 27th May 1918. Help was at hand as they were travelling in a convoy of six transporters and accompanied by a number of destroyers. The men on board remained calm by all accounts as the ship remained a afloat and the rescue was going smoothly. Unfortunately a bulkhead on the aft side of the ship gave way very suddenly and those remaining on the ship had to jump for their lives. Of the 2,900 men and crew on board 102 were lost to the sea. Lt Warwick's body was never recovered.</span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">During the 1930s Upton Hall became the home of another bereft father: Sir Albert Ball, father of the more famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ball" target="_blank">Albert Ball VC,</a> First World War fighter pilot and flying ace who crashed to his death in France on 7th May 1917 aged just 20. He had gained such a reputation for his bravery that even his German enemy acknowledged "He was by far the best English flying man."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">For a while Upton Hall became a Roman Catholic College for missionaries but since 1972 it has been the HQ of the <span id="goog_1946951181"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Horological_Institute" target="_blank">British Horological Institute.</a></span><br />
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Why? Who knows! Even the church gargoyles look confused.</div>
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The herringbone brick-work on the<a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/averham/hhistory.php" target="_blank"> Church of Saint Michael and All Angels</a> dates it to Pre-Conquest days. I find that an amazing thought … that wall was being built nearly a thousand years ago!</div>
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They chose a lovely location for their place of worship, next to the River Trent.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The main church door is topped by three shields relating to members of the <a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/mellors1924/families2.htm" target="_blank">illustrious Sutton family.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here, with two wolves' heads, are the initials T.S. for<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Manners-Sutton,_1st_Baron_Manners" target="_blank"> Thomas Manners- Sutton</a> (1756 - 1842), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, M.P. for Newark, Solicitor-General, Baron of the Exchequer, Baron Manners of Foston, and Member of the Privy Council. Quite a list!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas was the elder brother of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manners-Sutton" target="_blank">Most Reverend Charles Manners-Sutton</a> (1755 - 1828). He was educated at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Charterhouse" target="_blank">Charterhouse</a> (which was founded by another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sutton" target="_blank">Thomas Sutton</a>) and began his church career as Rector of Averham but within a few years he was elevated to Archbishop of Canterbury M.A., D.D. He donated £1000 towards the foundation of the Anglican King's College in London and helped to form the National Society for the Education of the Poor: aimed at helping children of the labouring classes to become literate in order to improve their moral and spiritual education. </span><br />
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either … sorry! The name of Jesus presented as IHC takes centre stage. These are the Greek letters iota, eta and sigma: the first, second and last letters of the name Jesus. There seems to be the name MARIA at the bottom but again the font is rather strange. There is some similarity to the Alpha/Omega signs in the M and the final A (another sign for Jesus from his words "I am the Alpha and Omega." (in Revelations 1:8, 21:6 and 22:13) but the stone mason has also given us 3 Ts (if you look closely at the first A, the I and the final A) which is a Triple Tau. In Christianity this would be a sign of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. <a href="http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/symbolism/triple_tau.html" target="_blank">Free Masons</a> use it as a sign of being 'A Servant of God'.</div>
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Two tuns and strange letters are a theme on these stones. The shield shows a set of compasses and a writing implement as far as I can tell. The wavy lines look like flags in a breeze. </div>
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The church was locked unfortunately. Inside are more memorials to the Suttons.</div>
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The family had very close connections to the Manners family going back generations hence the addition of Manners to the Sutton surname. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sutton,_1st_Baron_Lexinton" target="_blank"> Robert Sutton Lord Lexington</a> (1594 - 1668) was married to Elizabeth Manners, sister to Sir John Manners Earl of Rutland. The Manners family seat was Belvoir Castle. The Suttons and Manners were the most pre-eminent families in the region. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace,_Lady_Manners" target="_blank">(Link to Lady Grace Manners showing family connections)</a>. Thoroton, in his <i>History of Nottinghamshire,</i> pointed out the Suttons were also closely related to the family of Robert Dudley, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. <a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/averham.htm" target="_blank">(Click here for link).</a></div>
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Unsurprisingly then Sir Robert supported King Charles I during the English Civil War and paid for the defence of Newark. This put a huge strain on the family finances but he was created Lord Lexington in 1645. His estate and titles were lost during the Commonwealth then restored to him in 1660 by King Charles II.</div>
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Sir Robert was abroad when he died in 1668 but rumour has it his heart is buried in an urn positioned above this monument!</div>
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Unfortunately a 1984 someone broke into the church, <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4806979" target="_blank">cut off the praying hands</a> of an effigy to Sir William Sutton (Robert's father, courtier to Queen Elizabeth I, who died in 1611) and daubed the large monument with red paint. </div>
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They appear to have cats' ears and lions' manes.<br />
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The left-hand mouth is turned down slightly possibly making this a representation of the Comedy/Tragedy Masks of the Greek Theatre. That explanation would certainly be appropriate because Averham is home to <a href="https://rhtc.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Robin Hood Theatre Company.</a></div>
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The Theatre began life as The Robin Hood Opera House. Reverend Joseph Cyril Walker (d. 1941) conceived the idea in 1913 and had local carpenter Robert Lee build it in the grounds of the church Rectory. He lead a troupe of actors calling themselves 'The Country Bumpkins'.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After Rev. Walker died the theatre continued for ten years but had to close in 1951. It opened again in 1961 but struggled financially and the County Council took over in 1881. Safety concerns closed it again in 2007 but the acting troupe continued by working in schools and village halls. Fund raising with contributions from Ian McKellen, Sylvia Syms and Judi Dench meant restoration could be carried out and the theatre tradition continues in Averham (without the V!)</span></div>
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<a href="http://airfieldcards.com/index.php?f=512" target="_blank">Rectory Farm Airfield</a> allows aviators to land their planes, at their own risk, on a picturesque runway next to the River Trent. They do not charge a landing fee but ask for a voluntary contribution of £10 towards up-keep costs.<br />
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Pingley Dyke … what a great name! ....runs across the fields between Averham and Staythorpe Power Station. <br />
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Map of Averham: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.0803914,-0.8643852,15z" target="_blank">Click here</a>.Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-7857329830262730192018-03-01T13:15:00.003-08:002021-04-09T05:04:49.900-07:00Shelford<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shelford is situated quite close to a bend in the River Trent so the water slows down slightly causing silt deposits making the river shallower here ... and this probably accounts for the village name: Shelford or <i>shallow ford.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An Augustinian Monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary was founded here sometime around 1160. The friars adopted a self sufficiant communal life, giving up ownership of all possessions. It sounds idyllic, I can picture them now ... semi-bald black friars with their little rotund bellies, quaffing ale and singing three part harmonies as they hoed a field ... but these monks started to enjoy life at Shelford a little too much! Following a visitation in 1280 the Prior was ordered to abstain from drink; told to attend church services at the proper time and he had to retain no waster or quarrelsome person. His deputy was warned to take better care of the poor and abstain from all manner of business, plus the person in charge of the cellar was instructed to present accurate yearly accounts. It doesn't seem to have made much difference ... a new Prior was appointed a short time later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Henry VIII put paid to the friar's debauchery by closing the monastery in 1536. The following relics
were recorded as being venerated there: some of the oil of the Holy Cross, a girdle that
had belonged to the Virgin Mary, some of her breast milk (!) and part of
a candle used in her Purification service after the birth of Jesus! Unbelievable! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the time of the closure three Cannons were found guilty of "unnatural sin" and three others wanted to be released from their vows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Archbishop Cranmer (see Aslockton) asked for the monastery farm to be given to his brother in law "or some other house in Notts now suppressed." (This petition failed but he was allowed to purchase Kirkstall Abbey and Arthington Priory both near Leeds in West Yorkshire, for his own use.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shelford was bestowed on <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/stanhope-michael-1508-52" target="_blank">Michael Stanhope</a> (1508 - 1552). Michael's half sister<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Seymour,_Duchess_of_Somerset" target="_blank"> Anne</a> was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Seymour,_1st_Duke_of_Somerset#Fall_of_Somerset" target="_blank">Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset </a>(1500 - 1552), elder brother to Queen Jane Seymour. Powerful relatives were obviously extremely useful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Stanhopes prospered even further when Henry VIII died (1547) and Edward Seymour convinced other members of the Privy Council to appoint him as Lord Protector of England during King Edward VI minority. For a time Edward and Anne Seymour were the most powerful couple in the country and Michael Stanhope continued to profit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ll</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was not well in the Seymour household. Edward's younger brother, Thomas Seymour, was an ambitious man looking to ingratiate himself with the boy-king at Edward's expense. He supplied the king with sums of cash, while suggesting the Lord Protector was exceeding his authority and side-lining the young monarch. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomas began to make plans to marry 13 year old Princess Elizabeth … a step too far for Edward Seymour who vetoed the idea so Thomas married the widowed Queen Katherine Parr instead. Anne Stanhope Seymour was far from impressed when it was suggested Katherine should claim possession of some of the Crown Jewels … as wife of the Lord Protector she felt she was the First Lady of England so they belonged to her. On another occasion Anne refused to carry Katherine's train and almost barged the queen out of the way in order to gain access to a doorway ahead of her! These quarrels between their wives added to the enmity between the brothers.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Katherine Parr died in September 1548, a week after giving birth to a daughter. A few rumours suggested Thomas had helped her into the next world in order to rekindle his previous plan to marry Elizabeth Tudor. Elizabeth had lived with the new-married Seymours for a time and her governess, Kat Ashley reported Thomas had behaved quite outrageously towards her mistress: coming into her chamber bare-legged while Elizabeth was still in bed, patting her behind and leaning in to kiss her. Katherine decided matters had gone too far and in May 1548 Elizabeth went to Cheshunt to stay with Lord Anthony Denny in rural Hertfordshire.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Denny was married to Joan Champernowne, sister to Catherine Raleigh who was the mother of Walter Raleigh. Curiously Kat Ashley's maiden name was also Champernowne.</span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just four months after his wife's death</span> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomas was discovered with a pistol outside King Edward's bedchamber around midnight with no real excuse for being there. He was arrested and sent to the Tower. Edward Seymour failed to dash to his rescue and Thomas was executed for High Treason on 20th March 1549. One of the Articles against him was the claim he intended to marry Elizabeth. When Elizabeth was question over the matter she denied any involvement in such a scheme. As a princess of the realm she could only marry with the approval of the Privy Council. She faced being disinherited from the line of succession if she had failed to abide by this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomas had been a charismatic character so his execution reflected badly on his brother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ithin a couple of years Edward Seymour had fallen from grace in the eyes of King Edward and members of the Privy Council. John Dudley Earl of Warwick had made sure of that! Eventually Edward Seymour and Michael Stanhope were arrested on charges of treason. Both men were executed in 1552. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">You can find more information on Shelford Church <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/shelford/hintro.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Stanhope's son, Thomas, was only 12 years old when he inherited Shelford Priory. He was rather a forthright character and got involved in a number of quite violent disputes with his wealthy
neighbours. He would die in 1596 heavily in debt ... mostly due to the cost of repairing and rebuilding his home! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were plans to build a beautiful mansion to rival Lord Willoughby's Wollaton Hall but it never materialised. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a well researched, detailed biography of Thomas Stanhope (<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sir-Thomas-Stanhope-Shelford-Elizabethan/dp/1872356109/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1519764105&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=sir+philip+stanhope+of+shelford" target="_blank">details here</a>) by B Cobbing and P Priestland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomas's grandson, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_1st_Earl_of_Chesterfield" target="_blank">Sir Philip Stanhope </a>(1584 - 1656) ... the 1st Earl of Chesterfield married Catherine Hastings in 1604 and had eleven sons and two daughters with her. The family fought for the King during the Civil War. One of Sir Philip's sons, Colonel Philip Stanhope, was left defending Shelford Manor and the village when, on 3rd November 1645, the place was attacked by the Parliamentarians, led by Colonel John Hutchinson (see <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/owthorpe.html" target="_blank">Owthorpe)</a>. Colonel Stanhope was offered the chance to surrender but he refused. About 140 men died that night. </span><br />
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The <a href="http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/shelford/hhistory.php" target="_blank">Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project</a> records the following event at Shelford:<br />
<i>"<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">During the fighting, some Shelford men took
over the church tower, drawing up the ladder and bell ropes after them. From
there they fired on Roundhead troops, refusing to come down despite warnings
that no quarter would be given if they did not. Hutchinson then sent for straw,
set light to it and smoked out the defenders. Smoke damage could still be seen
in Victorian times, and today the wall at the base of the tower staircase is
darker than higher up - possibly the legacy of this event. Within the body
of the church there was damage to Lady Anne Stanhope's monument </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and the font,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> which had to be
replaced in 1662 after the Restoration. Philip Stanhope died from wounds received
in the seige and much of the Stanhopes’ manor house was destroyed in
a fire."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet another Philip Stanhope (4th Earl of Chesterfield) is also worth a mention here.He was a statesman and an acclaimed wit of his day (in his later years a friend asked after his health: he replied that he had been dead for two years but did not wish it to be known!) He is remembered for a critical letter written to him by Samuel Johnson after the <i>Dictionary of the English Language </i>had been published. The Earl had written in praise of Johnson's hard work and dedication in producing such a fine document. Instead of showing his gratitude at this noble endorsement Johnson expressed his annoyance that more help had not been forthcoming while he had been struggling with debts during the time of writing it. The Earl could have been highly offended by this: instead he praised the way Johnson had expressed his insults!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately he died after being bitten by a mosquito and the Pharoah's Curse was thought to have claimed a victim. It was this Stanhope who had the village school built in 1873. The school closed in 1964 and the building is now the Village Hall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read The Thoroton Society write up on the Stanhopes <a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1903/summer/shelford4.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bingham market place holds a reminder of a most genial squire from Shelford. His name was John Hassall. He was so well liked and respected that when he died in 1859 local people collected the £700 to pay for the erection of the Bingham Buttercross. The gilt lettering round the top reads: "To be Beloved is better that all Bargains" a motto he lived by.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A number of well-tended War Graves can be found in Shelford grave yard. Four commemorate an Australian aircrew who died during the Second World war. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arthur Mee tells a darkly amusing tale of a village tailor in Victorian times who started supplying beautiful velvet waistcoats at very competitive prices. He was also the church sexton so he had access to the Stanhope family vaults. He was stripping the velvet from the coffins to make the garments. (<a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/books/mee1938/titlepage.htm" target="_blank"><i>Arthur Mee's 'Nottinghamshire')</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The footpath fingerpost in this photograph leads to a field with one of the best views of ridge and furrow fields in Nottinghamshire.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ridge and furrow fields</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The village pub is the <a href="http://www.theearlofchesterfield.co.uk/" target="_blank">Earl of Chesterfield</a>
("one of Nottinghamshire's finest ...") which obviously takes its name
from the Stanhope family. The pub was on the point of closing a few
years ago but the locals organised a take over and saved it. The
business is now a thriving enterprise with good beer and excellent
food. We can highly recommend the lunchtime menu and the Christmas
dinner.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Earl of Chesterfield </i></td></tr>
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building nestling amongst the cottages. At one time there were up to 30 acres
of willows growing near the Manor House as the villagers harvested the stems to
supply local basket weavers. Today we came across a field full of alpacas
showing how the community is adapting to modern trends.<i><br /></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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is a very pretty view from hence down the Trent, Burton Joyce appearing
just at the elbow, where the river turns. Nor is this place altogether
lonely, for there is a tolerably quick succession of passengers
crossing the ferry to and fro, and boats sailing up against, or down
with the stream. A day or two in summer, might be passed very
pleasantly in this neighbourhood ..."</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Map of Shelford: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Shelford,+Nottingham+NG12+1EW/@52.9700506,-1.0188087,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879c6170fb06e0f:0xa8201fdbeaabff94" target="_blank">click here.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Village website: </span></span><a href="http://www.shelfordnotts.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">click here</span></span>.</a> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our Normanton on Soar (meaning Norwegian village on the Soar) visit began in the carpark of The Plough Inn on a cold winter morning when the ground was covered in frost and snowflakes were beginning to fall. There were no boats in sight on the river but the mallards came close and two swans laboured to leave the water then noisily flew past at head height. What a great setting! It is lovely at anytime of year but it is obviously a bustling place during the summer months when the free mooring helps attract the river traffic. <a href="https://theploughnormanton.co.uk/about-us/" target="_blank"> The Plough Inn</a> has a large garden waiting to be filled; a good choice on the menu and attentive staff. Definitely worth a visit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While today the River Soar with its boats and wildlife can be enjoyed by villagers and visitor alike, the waterway was not always such a clean and pleasant place. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1634 Thomas Skipwith of Cotes (brother to Henry Skipwith who we wrote about in the Stanford on Soar post where he met with King Charles I in 1645) obtained a grant from the King allowing him to improve the navigation on the Soar for barges and boats. By 1794 river traffic had increased and the Leicester Canal opened with a 40 mile section of the Soar being used by industrial barges. Throughout the early 1800s this river was a busy transportation link as it connected to the River Trent giving access to a wide region for trade. Industries sprang up along the canal bank: malthouses, brewing yards and hosiery factories and the coal fields made full use of the route. Pollution of the river became a problem and the waters were frequently a vivid pink colour from the Leicester textile works. Thankfully those days are passed and the poor fish can swim around in a healthier environment</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a 1890 painting of a river barge passing the village on the Soar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The artist was<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orrock" target="_blank"> James Orrock (1829 - 1913)</a>. Orrock was born in Scotland where he trained as a dentist then moved to a practice in Nottingham. He enrolled at the Nottingham School of Design, became an associate of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and exhibited work at the Royal Academy. He was also an avid art collector. Unfortunately, after Orrock's death, two painting from his collection were found to be forgeries: further investigations have revealed that he commissioned a number of forgeries of John Constable's works! The BBC art programme<i> 'Fake or Fortune?' </i>caused a few problems for the owners of one Constable painting, <i>'<a href="https://www.arthistorynews.com/articles/2876_Constables_Sea_Beach_Brighton_fails_to_sell" target="_blank">A Sea Beach, Brighton',</a> </i>which failed to sell after a connection with Orrock was discovered.</span><br />
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Normanton on Soar Chain Ferry (one of the last in the country).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This ferry ride across the river is operated
by volunteers each weekend from 1st April until 30th September (10am to
4.30pm).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is believed to date right
back to 1200AD but the first written reference to it was on a map of 1771.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It costs £1 per person to cross, with dogs and
bikes being charged at 50p.</span></span></span><br />
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Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-51724970640193306782018-02-14T13:41:00.000-08:002018-02-15T02:28:53.701-08:00Stanford on Soar<br />
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Stanford on Soar sits near the Leicestershire
border in the southern-most tip of Nottinghamshire. Most of the
buildings here appear to date back to the nineteenth century but the
village is considerably older. William
the Conqueror granted the manor to Roger de Busli of Normandy soon after
the Conquest. The Notts historian Dr. Robert Thoroton (1623 - 1678) described de Busli
as "the greatest Man of Lands in this County by many Degrees; ... in this small Shire, he had one Hundred seventy-four Manors, being the
best Part of ninety Townships."<br />
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By the sixteenth century the manor had passed to the Knifton family but they lost it when Thomas Knifton lost his head to High Treason and his property was claimed by the Crown: in 1558 Queen Mary gave the manor and the advowson of Stanford Church to her Goldsmith, Robert Raynes. The village appears to have been about the same size then as it is today. It was described as comprising of "11 messuages, 14 cottages, 1 horse mill, 50 acres land, 100 of meadow, 300 of pasture, 3 of wood, 1,000 of furz and heath with all their appurtenances in Stanford, the whole of the fishing and liberty of fishing in the waters of the Sore ..."<br />
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In 1641 Robert Raynes's grandson decided to have a new manor house built on top of a hill near the village. He wanted to move the whole village eventually but the English Civil War interrupted his plans. Unfortunately the grandson had financially overstretched himself and had to sell up in 1661 when the property was acquired by a London Alderman, Thomas Lewes. It would remain with his family for four generations. Here is an illustration of the Hall from 1739.<br />
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By 1771 the manor passed to the Dashwoods through marriage and Charles Vere Dashwood had Stanford Hall completely rebuilt. Although extra wings would be added by subsequent owners, Dashwood's Hall forms the centre of the present day building. The 1851 census reveals a comfortable lifestyle at the Hall as the family had 13 live-in servants with other employees housed around the grounds.<br />
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Richard Ratcliff acquired the Estate in 1887. The Ratcliffs had made a fortune in beer as part of the <a href="http://breweryhistory.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bass,_Ratcliff_%26_Gretton_Ltd" target="_blank">Bass, Ratcliff and Gretton brewing company. </a>In 1877 Bass was the largest brewery in the world, producing a million barrels a year. Bass Pale Ale was exported throughout the British Empire. Richard Ratcliff was therefore a VERY wealthy man and used his money well. His initials appear on the water-pump and the houses around Stanford village as he set about improving living conditions in the village. He also built a new village school ... now converted into a house .....<br />
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renovated the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently one of
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On Ratcliff's death in 1898 his son wrote, “Richard
Ratcliffe of Stanford Hall and owner of 1682 acres of the Stanford Estate spent
upwards of £11000 in embellishing and beautifying the church ....”</span></span></div>
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we failed to see the beautiful stained glass windows in their full
glory or to admire the brass figure of a priest in full robes set into
the floor of the chancel (thought to be of Adam de Rothley, Rector from 1354 to 1361), or to photograph the tomb of <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/cave-sir-ambrose-1503-68" target="_blank"> Sir Ambrose Cave</a>,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and member of Queen Elizabeth I's
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Fortunately The Southwell and Nottingham Church History
Project can give you <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/stanford-on-soar/hmonumnt.php" target="_blank">more details about the church here</a>).<br />
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We spent a few minutes wandering around under the yew trees in the graveyard. King Charles I had stood with Sir Henry Skipwith under one such tree right here in 1645 discussing tactics on their way to the Siege of Leicester. It was easy to feel eerily close! Sadly the old tree they stood under was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1987. Close examination of its rings showed it had been 1200 years old.<br />
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Stanford churchyard hosts a large collection of <a href="https://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/leicester/swithland.html" target="_blank">slate gravestones</a> that date back to the 1700s. These slate headstones are works of real skill and craftmanship. At least one here was sculpted by William Charles of Wymswold. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are three headstones belonging to the Lacey family. Robert
Lacey was a Stanford Yeoman. There is a lovely example of a Belvoir
Angel in the top left hand corner of the headstone below which records
the death of 16 year old Henry Lacey on 13th May 1753.</span><br />
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While Ratcliff was making changes to the village the Great Cenral Railway arrived and the Stanford Viaduct was built. <br />
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The Viaduct opened in 1899 as part of the GCR London extension. Its arrival led to the River Soar being diverted in order to make way for the embankment. The line was closed in the 1960s but this section remains in use to carry gypsum trains to British Gypsum at East Leake and it forms part of the <a href="http://www.gcrn.co.uk/" target="_blank">GCRN</a> line ... a heritage railway, staffed by volunteers, that re-creates the experience of steam train transport through ten miles of Notts and Leicestershire countryside. <br />
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possession of Stanford Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sir Julien
Cahn paid £70,000 (equivalent to just under £4 million at today's prices) but
he then spent a small fortune on the renovations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He employed Sir Charles Allom as his interior
designer .... Allom had previously worked on the redecoration of Buckingham
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MacDermott, it could seat 352 people and had an orchestra pit with a
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cahn had tennis courts, a nine-hole golf course and
a bowling green built in the grounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
installed an enormous heated swimming pool with beautiful coral decorations and
artificial caves added, together with a large trout lake and a sea-lion
pool!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sport he was most passionate
about was cricket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He not only had his
own cricket pitch but a top ranking team to go with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing in 1938 the historian Arthur Mee
noted Sir Julien Cahn's "cricket team is the delight of thousands who come
here to see it play." Apparently the Sir Julien Cahn XI toured the world
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1935 he not only helped fund the players he also paid the membership
subscriptions for 800 people who otherwise would not have had the means to
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man a vote of thanks too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He rescued
Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron, by purchasing the building
then he gave it to Notts County Council.</span></div>
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convalescing soldiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially he
offered space for 22 men but within a year he had made room for 70.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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recently been acquired by the Duke of Westminster and the DNRC (Defence and
National Rehabilitation Centre) for the treatment of seriously injured service personnel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Hall grounds have been completely transformed to create the modern facilities required for the medical treatment and rehabilitation of those brave members of our military.
(<a href="https://www.thednrc.org.uk/whats-happening-on-now/the-defence-facility-is-being-built/aerial-video.aspx" target="_blank">video link here). </a>The facility will open this year (2018).</span><br />
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The busy A60 and A6006 meet at Rempstone ... the place could be twinned with the M25! ...... but it is still quite an attractive place as it has a number of old <a href="https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/rempstone-rushcliffe-nottinghamshire#.WWY9dGiQxVw" target="_blank">listed buildings</a> .... 15 in fact!<br />
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The second weekend in July is the date for <a href="http://www.rempstonesteam.org/" target="_blank">The Great Rempstone Steam and Country Show. </a><br />
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This annual steam rally has been running since 1956 making it the oldest one in the country: they have only missing 3 events in all that time due to an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease and adverse weather conditions. It began life as a small event behind Beeby Farm where the Beeby Brothers had started a Contracted Ploughing and Cultivating business in 1907. They owned 7 pairs of single cylinder engines each weighing 17 tonnes. The fair now plays host to about 50 steam engines and 600 exhibits so it has moved to a larger location near Wymeswold. Worth a visit.<br />
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Rempstone was the ancestral home of the Rempstone family who played an important part in English history. Those of you who know Shakespeare will remember the tale of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" target="_blank">Henry Bolingbroke</a>, son of John of Gaunt, who was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. In 1398 he was somewhat critical of his cousin King Richard II and was promptly exiled. The following year John of Gaunt died and Richard decided to also confiscated Henry's inheritance. Henry was a popular figure and an experienced soldier so he did not take Richard's actions lightly. Disregarding the exile Henry returned to England and set about reclaiming his lands and fortune.<a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/rempston-sir-thomas-i-1406" target="_blank"> Sir Thomas Rempstone</a> (or Sir John Ramston as Shakespeare chose to rename him in <i>Richard II</i>) was Henry's closest ally. Rempstone had served as Knight for the Shire of Nottingham and as Sheriff of Nottingham before taking up Henry's cause. Having captured King Richard Henry appointed Sir Thomas Rempstone as Constable of the Tower of London so he was incharge of the royal prisoner: he was also a witness when Richard abdicated in favour of Bolingbroke <br />
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The new King Henry IV was very generous to his friend. Rempstone became a Knight of the Garter, Steward of the King's household and a member of the Privy Council. These positions gave him considerable wealth and extensive lands in Nottinghamshire including the Manor of Bingham but it didn't do much to improve his personality. He died in rather an arrogant fashion in October 1406. There had been exceptionally heavy rainfall that month. The Thames ferryman taking Rempstone across the river refused to go under a bridge and set course for the safety of the nearest bank. Rempstone drew his sword and threatened the poor ferryman forcing him to continue under the bridge. They hit the bridge post, the boat capsized and Rempstone drowned. No blame was placed on the ferryman thankfully.<br />
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to the King. In his case it was King Henry V (Shakespeare's Hal). The young Rempstone had his first taste of real warfare at Agincourt with Henry in 1415. He had a personal retinue of eight men-at-arms and 24 archers. He would go on to be recognised as one of the leading military commanders of his<br />
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time. He was present at the triumphal enrty into Paris in 1420. Each success brought him greater wealth and following a very lucrative marriage he helds extensive lands in both England and France. Every thing went well until 1428 when he was involved in an attempt to take Orleans ... unfortunately <br />
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Joan of Arc had other ideas. The English troops were forced to retreat with the French in pursuit. Rempstone was taken prison in 1429 and they demanded a ranson of about £5000 for his release. Despite his wealth his family found it difficult to find the cash! He would not return to England until July 1436.<br />
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His brother William did make a serious attempt to gain his freedom in 1432 when he was organising part payment and a prisoner exchange. Unfortunately the French prisoner they chose to exchange was already being used as hostage for a ransom due on the Duke of Orlean so the deal fell through. After seven years as a hostage Rempstone returned to Nottingham almost bankrupt. He settled for the quiet life of a country gentleman for just a couple of years before returning to campaigning in France ... and being captured a second time. He died in 1458 and was buried in the chancel of Bingham Church.<br />
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Rempstone All Saint's Church dates back to 1771 but some of the building material was taken from a much older church that had fallen into disrepair. The earlier church was a Saxon building named St Peter in the Rushes. It was situated about three quarters of a mile away from the present church ... some old grave stones mark the spot .... and had served three communities. When the village was enclosed in 1768 it was decided to move the church closer to Rempstone.<br />
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We could not gain access to the inside of the building but we could glimpse some beautiful carved panels decorating the raised singing gallery through the windows. It all looked very Victorian which is quite apt as one of the memorials inside is a richly engraved brass plate on the floor commemorating George Davys, Bishop of Peterborough, who was tutor to Queen Victoria.<br />
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The Old Rectory has obviously changed over the years ... In 1770 it was described as having "two parlours, hall and kitchen with four chambers above. There was ... a small thatched barn, stables and a cow house." This place has had a couple of interesting visitors in its time. A young Oliver Cromwell slept under this roof as did Florence Nightingale.<br />
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It was a nice surprise to find the pub was still in business. The White Lion was recently purchased by four village residents to save it for the community. There has been a pub on this site for many years ....just round the corner is a property called the Coach House with a large opening for the carriages to gain entry. We missed opening time by 30 minutes on this visit but it looks good so we plan to return. The new owners sell traditional ales and there was talk of a food menu so we will let you know what we think in due course ......</div>
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Across the road from the pub but out of sight from the road stands the Grade II listed Rempstone Hall. It was recently up <a href="http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28899323.html" target="_blank">for sale</a> with a guide price of £2.5 million for the Hall and 22 acres of garden, woodlands and pastures. It had been home to an order of nuns since 1978 (when they paid £110,000 for it) but they now have a new purpose built convent at Costock. <br />
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During the 1800s the Hall was home to John Smith Wright (of the Smith banking family) and his wife Lady Sarah Caroline Sitwell. Lady Sarah was described as a blue stocking and moved in artistic/literary circles .... Edith Sitwell probably learnt a lot from her. Lady Sarah's first husband had been Sitwell Sitwell (yes, his humorous father named him twice!) who was hailed a hero by the people of Sheffield when a tiger escaped from a circus visiting the town. Sitwell Sitwell took his pack of hounds into the streets and hunted the tiger down. *<br />
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Lord Byron was a guest at one of Lady Sarah's gatherings when he was enthralled by the sight of Anne Beatrix Wilmont walking across the room wearing a black sequinned dress. One of his most famous poems was the result: <br />
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There used to be a second pub in the village ..... this was a coaching inn known as The Ship Inn. Today it has been converted into a comfortable looking B and B <a href="http://guesthouse-rempstone.co.uk/facilities/" target="_blank">Guesthouse</a> with 14 rooms.<br />
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* <i>Lady Sarah Caroline Sitwell and her husband Sitwell Sitwell had a young daughter named Caroline. Unfortunately the child died at the age of 10 months. There is a memorial stone to her at Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire which reads "She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to Heaven."</i>Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-37412661796375290242017-06-21T09:42:00.000-07:002017-07-04T04:22:01.241-07:00Costock<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The pub is a good place to start in Costock. The staff in <i>The Generous Briton</i> gave us a warm welcome and a tasty lunch .... the beer was good too. Worth a visit.<br />
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The present pub sign shows a corpulent John Brown type figure wearing a Union Jack waistcoat and holding out a flagon of frothy ale. The name comes from a poem written in 1780 by Phillip Freneau. Entitled A British Prison Ship it describes the appalling conditions American prisoners endured on these death ships. The American War of Independence raged from 1775 until 1783. The British viewed their prisoners of war as terrorists and confined them in sweltering ships with little food or fresh weater. The death tolls were around the 70% mark. The poem details the awful treatment the "generous Britons" meted out.<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: super;">Well, we left the pub and wandered up a lane that was a perfect setting
for a Miss Marple TV set. We turned right at the end of the lane and
that took us passed a small graveyard and on to Hall Farm, a lovely old farm house that is no longer a farm. Obviously we couldn't go in but according to the <i>WI Nottinghamshire Village Book</i> it has 3 feet thick walls, stone mullioned windows and a ten feet long fireplace very similar to the one in Hampton Court kitchen. It did look idyllic.</span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: super;">We retraced our steps back to the graves, passed Dead End Cottage (!) and found the church yard.</span><br />
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tiny window underneath the middle one in the photo above has been described as a Leper
Window but the altar can not be seen from that angle: an alternative
explanation suggests it was a Confessional Window dating back to
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two brothers as they share the name of Chapman and were born four years
apart. Edward, the youngest, died in Calcutta, India in 1875 at the age of 21 but is remembered here. A silver 16th century Indian coin was found in the church yard ... perhaps it was buried with this young man.</span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: super;">In prime position at the front of the church is a large plot with a row of stones belonging to one family. Many generations of the Woodroffe or Woodruff family are buried here. Interestingly the older grave stones show different spellings of the name. One stone tells us that Solomon Woodroffe died in 1735 and next to him is his 14 year old son. Solomon's wife, Mary, died in 1741 leaving three other children. Elizabeth Woodroffe, the youngest was only 10 when she was orphaned. She also died young at the age of 29. There are about 19 stones in memory of this family ... so many they have their own <a href="http://www.woodroffe.org.uk/documents/gravcostk.htm" target="_blank">web page</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: super;"> Descendents of the family still live in the Woodroffe family home ... right across the road from the church. The building has SW 1778 designed into the old brickwork (Solomon Woodroffe II). </span><br />
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Six of these carving date to the 13th century but over 60 of them were created by Rev Charles Sutton Millard the Victorian vicar.<br />
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The effigy is minus a head having been badly damaged by soldiers in the Civil War. The marks in
the sandstone at the back look like fingernail scatchings but we were
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Bailey's <i>Annals of Nottinghamshire</i> tells us: 'At the latter end of the summer the Royalists having placed an ambuscade on the road near Costock, to intercept a convoy, passing under protection of a body of Leicester troops, were defeated with the loss of eight men killed and sixty taken prisoners.' The loss of the Parliamentary forces is not mentioned. <br />
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A <a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/tts/tts1902/spring/spring1902p4.htm" target="_blank">document from the Thoroton Society</a> states: "We know from information given by Mr. Carver, farmer, of Costock, that in 1857, on a road being made outside the churchyard, five skulls, together with other bones, were found buried at the depth only of 2½ feet from the surface, and that in Dr. Chapman's opinion, they were the bones of men, and that one skull had a round hole, which might have been caused by a bullet." <br />
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At the back of the church they have almost copied the tomb design from the church front for another respected vicar ... Edward Wilson Clerk MA who died in 1859.<br />
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Continuing down the lane we passed the large Rectory but it is hardly visible from the road. There is a real feeling of being back in time down this lane. Round the corner and behind a huge brick wall is the old Manor House. Apparently the land and money for this place was given to Queen Elizabeth I's chef when he retired! He must have been the Alain Passard of his day!<br />
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It is still standing and has been converted into a fabulous modern home with immaculate gardens, a heated swimming pool, six bedrooms, four bathrooms, stable block, garage block and at least three additional buildings to use as holiday lets. It was up <a href="http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-22042490.html" target="_blank">for sale</a> recently for £1.8 million. I'd buy it!<br />
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We explored Mill Lane but the mill was long gone ... There was a miller recorded as living in Costock in 1609 and the last mill was built in 1774 but it was pulled down in 1937 when it became too dangerous. The old mill barn, where the wheat was threshed, dates back to 1763 but it is now a house.<br />
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At one time the village had three shops (including a butcher and a sub-post office) and two pubs. There were two blacksmiths and a saddler supporting the local agricultural community; a small brick yard; a bake house; a shoemaker; a taylor and dressmakers. This was also the centre of a stocking framework knitting industry with finished products being taken to Nottingham by horse and cart. In 1871 there were 29 machines giving employment to about 40 people but by 1901 all production had ceased.<br />
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In 2011 the Community of the Holy Cross built a small convent for nuns on a 26 acre site just outside the village. It is a place where people can go for a quiet religious retreat. There is another business with a church connection ... <a href="http://www.ellisandpritchards.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ellis Ropes Ltd</a> makes colourful chime ropes for church bells under the Ellis and Pritchard brand name.<br />
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There seems to be a trend connected to 'higher things' here because another modern day establishment in the area is <a href="http://eastmidlandshelicopters.com/contact.php" target="_blank">East Midlands Helicopters.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.eglantinevineyard.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Eglantine Vineyard</a> covers 4 acres of land on Ash Lane and produces award winning wines and meads. <br />
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I HAVE to begin this post by showing you a fabulous memorial effigy located inside the village church.<br />
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Here we have the stunningly beautiful memorial of Harriet Annie Robertson who died in 1891 at 42 years of age. How ironic that she looks so lifelike!<br />
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Beautifully coiffered and dressed; holding a spray of lilies in one hand, you could imagine her sleeping in comfort up at the Big House! Her head rests on three cushions with detailed trims, tassels and creases .... the stone looks so soft. Her cover is tucked under the side of the bed and you can see seams and stitching in the material! A magnificent memorial. She was obviously loved. <br />
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So who were the Robertsons? Members of this family settled in Widmerpool in 1804 but George Robertson, who moved from Scotland during the 1700s, started the family business by setting up cotton mills at Papplewick, Linby and Bulwell. They were so successful he passed on a considerably large fortune to his decendants. Major George Coke Robertson was a great-grandson of the original George. The Major was one of the members of the first Nottinghamshire County Council Committee. He was a kind and charitable gentleman: when the price of corn fell to a record low and most of Widmerpool farmers were on the breadline the Robertsons were there to help. Even today, all this time later, one of the villagers referred to the family as "Benevolent Squires". The village church owes them a great deal of thanks:<br />
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Members of the Robertson family had first started to restore the delapidated St Peter's Church in 1832. The spire and porch were replaced, part of the building was re-roofed and windows were added. Unfortunately a huge storm hit in 1836 and destroyed the windows and half the newly built spire collapsed. A few years later they invested in the place again.<br />
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Major Coke Robertson married Harriet Low in 1873. She was the daughter of an extremely wealthy cotton king from Savannah, USA. She spent £10,000 making the ruined church what it is today. <br />
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A vestry was added; the organ, stain glass windows and the beautiful reredos were installed and the ceiling redesigned. The stone mason bill must have been enormous but it was worth it.<br />
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Harriet Robertson's father, Arthur Low, also hailed from Scotland but had emigrated to America when he was 16 and started working in his uncle's cotton mill. Pretty soon he was a partner in the business and had a large palatial house in Savannah <a href="http://www.visit-historic-savannah.com/andrew-low-house.html" target="_blank">(see it here)</a>. When William Makepeace Thackery (of <i>Vanity Fair</i> fame) visited the family in 1853 he wrote "Know that I write from the most comfortable quarters I have ever had in the United States." General Robert E Lee also stayed at the house where the young Harriet lived as a child.<br />
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The Arthur Low House is on the USA tourist map ... not because of the wealthy Arthur but because of his daughter-in-law, Juliette Gordon Low. She married Wiolliam Mackay Low in 1886. It was not a happy union and by 1901 the couple were discussing divorce. William died in 1905... there is a memorial plaque inside Widmerpool church and his large tomb is in the church yard.<span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
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Scout movement she organised two Girl Guide patrols in London then
returned home to America to spread word of the movement over there.
Arthur Low House was the US Girl Scout first HQ. They celebrate their
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Widmerpool Hall was built for the Robertsons in 1872 and is a Grade II listed building. Gargoyles cling onto the Italianate clock tower .... but the clock was never added out of respect for Harriet Robertson who died before that detail was completed.<br />
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The Major died in 1924 and the estate passed to Thomas Towle then 1943 - 1947 Mrs Forman-Hardy (owner of the Evening Post) was in residence. The house was up for sale in 1949 with an asking price of £9750 ....those were the days!!<br />
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The estate became the training school for the AA (Automobile Association) patrolmen in 1950 but in recent years it has been converted into nine residential apartments (each selling for approx. £500,000 nowadays!), eleven mews style houses and detached houses have been built nearby.<br />
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The child depicted in the window sitting on Christ's knee is six year old Bevil Grenviele Bruce Grenfell born May 9<span class="superscr">th</span> 1878 and died July 19<span class="superscr">th </span>1884. He was the son of Dame Amy Grenfell, Harriet's sister.<br />
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Also buried here is Thomas Andrew Barton, the son of the founder of Barton Buses.<br />
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The stone carvings in the porch echo the carvings on the altar piece:<br />
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We could not help but notice the large number of mature trees around the village: a lovely mixture of evergreen and deciduious trees. Some of the cedars were imported from Lebanon before 1700 but a number were added to the Robertson's estate gardens when cedars and redwoods were in vogue. Some are quite spectacular.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> Under the village sign is a blue plaque giving details of the accomplishments of one resident: Sophie Hahn who had set a world record time and won a Gold Medal for the 100m and Silver for the 200m at the International Paralympic Championships in Lyon 2013. Great achievement!</span></span><br />
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This has to be one of the prettiest villages we have visited so far .... greatly helped by the lovely weather and the time of year as the glorious daffoldils were shown off to perfection. Every road was lined with them. They came in all sorts of sizes and colour combinations. Apparently there are 30,000 different cultivars of daffodils: a large number of which seem to be on display around Wysall.<br />
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A beautiful church clock was commisioned in 1920 to commemorate the bravery of these 12 villagers. It cost a grand total of £118 and was made by <a href="http://copejewellers.co.uk/about-us" target="_blank">G & F Cope and Co</a>. This company was established by two brothers in 1845 and is still in business today as a family jewellers with shops in Nottingham and Newark. They specialised in large public clocks for a time: the Council House clock in Nottingham city centre is another of their designs.<br />
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Wysall did not get off so lightly during the Second World War ... a
plaque in the church informed us James Robert Elding, a 21 year old
pilot in the RAF Voluntary Reserves, was killed in action.<br />
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Holy Trinity Church sits in the centre of the village and was built in the 14th century but the Normans had a church here in the 11th century ..... built on the site of an even earlier Anglo Saxon church. According to the <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/wysall/hhistory.php" target="_blank">Southwell Church Project</a> people have worshipped on this site for well over 1000 years.<br />
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The inside of the building must have looked very different in the 16th century when the walls were covered with "a blaze of murals" and the windows were filled with stained glass depicting the lives of the saints. All this colour was removed along with the stone altar, the Great Rood (or cross) and the Holy Water stoup once Henry VIII broke with Rome.<br />
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Inside the church we found the alabastor tomb of Hugh Armstrong Esq and his wife, Mary, who was the daughter of Henry Sacheverell of Ratcliffe on Soar. Hugh had died in December 1572 while Mary had died ten years earlier.<br />
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The Armstrong family had a long connection with the neighbouring village of Thorpe in the Glebe. Unfortunately this village no longer exists because in 1518 Hugh's father, Gabriel, decided to enclose his land, evict the villagers and introduce sheep. Dr Thoroton, writing in the 1670s, was not impressed ... he thought Gabriel Armstrong "hath so ruined and depopulated the town that there was not a house left inhabited in this notable Lordship (except some part of the Hall), but a shepherd only kept ale to sell in the Church . . . ."<i> </i>Today there are a few scattered farmhouses that make up an area called Thorpe in the Glebe but there is no real village .... other than the mounds and dips in the land near to Church Site Farm indicating the site of the original village.<br />
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A second monument in the church was a colourful mural dedicated to George Widmerpole who died in 1689 at the age of 84. The Widmerpools were a wealthy family who owned property in Wysall. The mural was found when the south wall of the church was removed during the church renovation in 1872.<br />
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The amusing Green Man carving below is to be found on a 15th century misericord ..... a seat with two positions: one for sitting down properly and the second designed to make it look like you are standing up ..... the poor old clergy were supposed to stand a long time during some services! I thought a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man" target="_blank">Green Man in a Christian church</a> would be quite unusual but apparently not .... <br />
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During 1623 a number of Nottinghamshire court documents record people being reprimanded for taking sick relatives to see the Stroking Boy of Wysall. There are about twenty such references showing people had travelled quite long distances (from Trowell, Wollaton, Broughton Soulney and West Bridgford). The boy obviously had quite a reputation as a faith healer. There are no further references to the child after 1623.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: black;">In 1894 Wysall was a bustling place with its own school, wheelwright and blacksmith, joiner, bootmaker, grocer, butcher, shop and stilton cheese manufactuer. Add the farmers and the public house and you have a self sufficient community. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Plough-at-Wysall/144913172236356" target="_blank">The Plough public house</a> is still there .... and well worth a visit ... but most residents now commute to work.</span></span></div>
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The Plough was the scene of an inquest into a murder in 1843. Here are two extracts from The Times newspaper as the crime hit the national news:<br />
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<i>The Times, Wednesday 31 May 1843</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Supposed Murder of a Son by his Father</b></span></div>
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Last week the neighbourhood of Wymeswold was in a state of
considerable excitement, caused by the discovery of the body of a
gentleman named Isaac Kettleband, of Wysall, in a pond on the farm of
Mr. Hebb ... Circumstances subsequently transpired which led to the
apprehension of the father of the deceased, on suspicion of having
committed the murder. On Wednesday and Thursday last an inquest was held
before Mr. Swan, coroner, when it appeared that the deceased was last
seen alive with his father near the pond in question on the 12th
instant. Mr. Brown, of Wymeswold, surgeon, was of opinion that the neck
of the unfortunate youth had first been broken, and that his body was
afterwards thrown into the pond. The inquest was adjourned to the 30th
instant, and the father of the deceased was committed to Nottingham Gaol
to await the result.</blockquote>
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<i>The Times, Saturday 3 June 1843</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wilful Murder</b></span></div>
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On Friday, May 10, a lad named Isaac Kettleband, aged 10 years, son
of William Kettleband, of Wysall, labourer, was missing. On the Tuesday
following his body was found in a horse-pond,
on the farm of Mr. Henry Hebb, situated near to a barn and a stable, at
which the deceased and his father usually worked. An inquest was held
on the body the same evening before Mr. C. Swann, coroner, and no
evidence to the contrary being adduced, a verdict of "Accidentally
drowned" was returned. On the same evening and during the next day, the
village gossips, in talking the affair over, began to think it possible
that foul play might have been used, as the father of the deceased was
known to be a violent and passionate man, and it was notorious that he
had always most shamefully and brutally maltreated the boy. Mr. Browne,
of Wymeswold, surgeon, was sent for to examine the body, and he at once
discovered that the neck was dislocated, and gave it as his most decided
opinion that it was broken before the body reached the water. The pond
in which deceased was found is about 10 ½ yards by 4, and a yard and a
half or two yards deep in some parts; it is, except at one corner,
surrounded by a dead fence, about 4 feet high, and is so situate that
the boy could not possibly have broken his neck in falling in
accidentally. These circumstances, connected with the anxiety the father
exhibited to have the corpse interred before any surgical examination
took place, excited such suspicions that the deceased had been unfairly
"done to death," that a second inquest was decreed indispensable.
Accordingly a notice was sent to the coroner, and Kettleband was taken
into custody. Mr. Swann consequently commenced a most rigid inquiry on
Thursday, the 25th, which was at the close of the day adjourned until
Monday last, the 29th. Mr. Hebb, in whose employ the deceased and his
father were, has three farms – one at each of the villages of Wysall,
Keyworth, and Stanton – and there is no residence on the farms at
Wysall. The farm buildings are situate about a mile from the village,
and stand the width of a very large field from the road; they consist of
a barn and stables at right angles to each other, and the pond spoken
of is not more than 25 or 30 yards distant. On Thursday a jury assembled
at the Plough Inn, Wysall, before whom Mr. Swann commenced his inquiry,
and a verdict was returned of "Wilful murder against some person or
persons unknown." The prisoner was then discharged out of custody.</blockquote>
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On 19th December 1843 William Kettleband was tried for the murder of his son. The jury decided to acquit him of murder even though he had abused the boy and evidence proved he had ridden a horse through the pond to hide any evidence. He was convicted of manslaughter for which he was transported to a penal colony for life.<br />
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According to Wikipedia there are two more newspaper references worthy of our attention:<br />
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<i>The Derby Mercury, Wednesday 18 August 1847</i><br />
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On Thursday the 5th instant, at the quiet village of Wysall, a
somewhat remarkable foot-race took place – remarkable, not for the
distance run, nor for the speed of the runners, but for the fact that
each of them has been running a race with old Time for more than ninety
years – one having exceeded his great climacteric 28, the other 33
years. The distance was forty yards. The competitors were – Mr. Wootton
Bryans, sen., aged 96, and Mr. John Hogg, aged 91 – the latter winning
by just a yard – which so <i>nettled</i> or rather <i>mettled</i> his
rival, that he challenged him to jump for a guinea. When this match is
to come off, or whether the challenge was accepted, we have not learnt.</blockquote>
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With the Old Market Square in Nottingham
being a popular destination for the nineteenth-century Wysall farmer,
you would expect these hard workers to be treated well in town. If the
following story is anything to go by, the remaining farmers in the area
would be wise to consider giving up seafood.<br />
<i>The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), Monday 17 February 1868; Issue 942</i><br />
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On Saturday night Mr. Richard Marshall, farmer, of Wysall, near
Nottingham, met with his death by an extraordinary misadventure. He went
to an oyster stall in the Market-place, Nottingham, and ordered some
oysters to be opened. The first handed to him was a very large one, and
stuck in his throat. He was unable to dislodge it, fell to the ground
gasping for breath, and was carried at once to the hospital, but died on
his way. The deceased was a married man and has left a large family.</blockquote>
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The village is a very active community with lots of clubs, societies and events advertised on the <a href="http://wysall.com/index.htm#news" target="_blank">Wysall website</a>.</div>
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On the day we visited Willoughby everyone else seemed to have left. The streets were deserted; we passed the silent school and parked the car near the church where a large black cat was lurking amongst the old gravestones, it stopped to stare at us then wandered off. Was this Willoughby or had we wandered into Thorpe in the Glebe?! (<i>see footnote!).</i><br />
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We visited mid week .... years ago Willoughby would have been teeming with people as this used to be a self-sufficient agricultural village (prior to the First World War there were 13 farms here, a mill and a blacksmith forge): nowadays, whilst a couple of farms still exist, most of the residents are employed elsewhere as Willoughby is very conveniently placed for transport links to Nottingham, Leicester or further afield. In 1989 when the ladies of the WI published <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nottinghamshire-Village-Book-Villages-Britain/dp/1853060577" target="_blank">The Nottinghamshire Village Book</a></i> they found "three full working farms .... and one public house. There is a shop which is now a mini market, a baker and a pork butcher."<br />
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Well, we passed the old post office .... now a house .... the old school house ... now a house .... the Old Bull's Head .... once the pub but now a house. We found the Community Hall but no sign of a pub or a shop of any description. The empty streets and lack of amenities made us wonder about any community spirit here. It seemed to us there was nowhere to actually meet up and socialise. We were wrong. When we eventually found someone to speak to they told us there was a great community spirit. People regularly meet up in each other's houses (they had 80 guests over New Year!); the community hall is a hive of activity with regular village breakfasts and social events; people meet at the school and there are fund raising events to improve the village (they bought playground and exercise equipment for the community park in recent years). The photographs on the <a href="http://www.parish-council.com/willoughbypc/index.asp?pageid=294391" target="_blank">village website</a> backs up the idea of a really friendly, supportive community.<br />
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So they don't seem to miss the pub! At one time the village had three public houses (as well as the church, a Methodist chapel, a Baptist chapel and a Primitive Methodist hall!). The first to go was The Plough which was possibly a coaching inn and stopped trading around 1864. The Three Horseshoes was demolished in the 1960s when a new pub was built ... also called The Three Horseshoes. This has fallen victim to the recent decline in hostelries and new houses have been built on the site. The Old Bull's Head we have mentioned above but the original inn had the distinction of being visited (in 1722) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stukeley" target="_blank">William Stukeley</a> (1687 - 1765), famous for his pioneering archaeological work on Stonehenge. He was a close friend of Isaac Newton (1642 - 1726) and his memoir to Newton is the earliest source of the falling apple story.<br />
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We were directed to the house of the church warden, Mrs Elizabeth Bryan,
whose family have lived here since the 1600s. If anyone could tell us the history of this place it was surely this lady .... <br />
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This is an old village: The Roman town of Vernometum (meaning Spring Grove) stood close by here next to the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosse_Way" target="_blank"> Fosse Way</a> It is believed to have been a fortified town with a temple and theatre: a place where Roman soliders could rest on their long march between Lincoln and Exeter. In the 1960s a new flyover was being built nearby and the remains of a cobbled Roman road were unearthed and we have already mentioned the urn containing 200 silver Roman coins found near here by a farmer in 1771 (<a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/hickling.html" target="_blank">Hickling</a>). It was interesting to discover that historians believe Emperor Hadrian spent the winter of 137 to 138 CE here!<br />
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An excavation near the village was carried out in 1964. They discovered an Anglo-Saxon burial site. A hundred graves were found: the archeologists found weapons, shields, amber brooches, beads and rings dating back to 600CE.<br />
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The Domesday book records the name as Wilgebi (named after willow trees) but the spelling changed over time and in the middle of the thirteenth century a wealthy resident decided to make the name his own.<br />
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This dynasty began in the late 1100s with a Nottinghamshire wool merchant, Ralph Bugge, who married a Miss Wollaton. Nottingham University has<a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/middleton/middletonfamilyhistory.aspx" target="_blank"> a history of the Willoughby family here</a>. Over the generations the family bought 6 bovates of land (about 90 acres) and a large house in Willoughby. (Their Manor House once stood close to the church but was demolished in 1978 .... part of a wall may still be evident in the property now on that site). Marriages brought them the Old Wollaton Hall and in later years the very large estate of Middleton in Warwickshire. When Ralph Bugge's grandchildren inherited land they changed their names: one became Ralph of Bingham while the other became Richard de Willoughby (this branch would go on to build Wollaton Hall).<br />
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Our friendly guide, Mrs Bryan, kindly gave us
access to the church of St Mary and All Saints. A number of
headstones in the graveyard bear the name of Bryan and a charity board
(that dates back to the late 1700s) inside the church shows Elizabeth
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I was very surprised to find the old slate headstones in the churchyard are not listed. They are very like listed ones we have seen in other graveyards. This one commemorates John Wright, a 2 year old, who died in 1720:<br />
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Inside the church was another surprise .... eight beautiful alabaster monuments to: <br />
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<li>Sir Richard Willoughby and lady (d 1325) ... he is depicted cross legged indicating he went overseas on a crusade.</li>
<li>Sir Richard Willoughby (The Lord Chief Justice who died 1362)</li>
<li>Sir Richard Willoughby (son of above ... died 1369)</li>
<li>Sir Hugh Willoughby (died 1448) and his wife Margaret Freville (died 1493) both very finely dressed indicating their great wealth and social position.</li>
<li>Isabel Foljambe (first wife of Hugh ....died 1417)</li>
<li>A priest ... possibly Hugh Willoughby Rector of Willoughby (d 1344)</li>
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Colonel Stanhope was only 24 years of age when he died in July 1648. He was a Royalist and fell in the<a href="https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/WilloughbySmPagesfromvolumeXparts1-2-3.pdf" target="_blank"> Battle of Willoughby Field </a>during the Civil War. The Stanhopes lived in Shelford: they were of equal rank to the Willoughbys and at various times they were connected by marriage; ex-marital affairs or rivalry! A sketch exists of a plan for a grand house to be built at Shelford which would have put Wollaton Hall to shame ... work began apparently but the Civil War put an end to the dream.<br />
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On the day Colonel Stanhope died villagers used the church tower as a place of safety and a good observation platform across the fields to the action. They were to witness the terrible scenes of the last battle of the Civil War in Notts. <br />
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Colonel Rossiter commanded 150 Roundheads on horseback. The Royalists had the distinct advantage of numbering 7 or 800 men most of whom were experienced fighters as they belonged to wealthy families (Roundheads tended to be lower class not trained as swordsmen). Rossiter's men had ridden many hours to reach the Royalist camp and without pausing to rest they charged the field. The bean field belonging to Sir Willoughby would have been covered in the bodies of the dead and dying as the battle turned into close fighting with swords. Colonel Rossiter was wounded in the thigh and lost his helmet because of a musket shot but continued to fight until his side was victorious and over 100 surviving Royalists were taken prisoner. Only 30 Roundheads died.<br />
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A large stone cross stood in the village ... made from one stone five
yards in height apparently. The Roundheads decided to pull it down and
began to tie ropes around it. The vicar had other ideas. He served
the men strong beer while he gave a long speech on the innocence of the
cross. Their drunken attempts to destroy it failed.<br />
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Eight men from the village are recorded as having died during the First World War: sadly three of them died in the final days of the war and two of those were brothers:<br />
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<li>Joseph Goodacre aged 24 died 18th October 1918</li>
<li>Harold Attewell aged 20 died 30th October 1918</li>
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The Nottinghamshire Village Book by the WI tells us about an interesting resident from years gone by. Her name was Mrs Wood: wearing a long black cloak she would walk the eight miles into Nottingham in order to attend the Catholic Mass. The poor woman put dried peas in each shoe before setting off as a penance for her sins! She was convinced her house was occupied by evil spirits and complained the rats refused to say their prayers so she had the house demolished!<br />
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The peaceful atmosphere is disturbed when the Quorn Hunt meet here. In previous years Prince Charles was a frequent visitor on those days.<br />
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<i>About a mile and a half west of the village are the sunken remains of <b>Thorpe in the Glebe</b>. Pevsner describes it as "one of the best deserted medieval villages in the Midlands". The remains of the church, which was still in use in 1743, lie in the farmyard of Churchside Farm.</i><br />
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The name 'Upper Broughton' appears on the road sign but this village seems to have a number of aliases .... we have Broughton Sulney (because Aluredus de Suleni owned the land in Norman times) and Over Broughton (to differentiate it from Nether Broughton in Leicestershire) is another. What ever you call it the place has hardly changed over the last hundred years and the 250 residents intend to keep it that way. They are fighting against wind turbines being located near by and putting their faith in a Neighbourhood Plan giving them a legal argument against future developments.<br />
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This was once a predominantly agricultural village with a mill and a brickyard but today it is part of the communter belt having easy access to Leicester, Melton Mowbray and Nottingham.<br />
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We parked up and within minutes a friendly resident stopped to chat. She suggested various people we could turn to for information.<br />
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Our first point of call was the butcher's shop:<br />
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As the sign says this family business, <a href="http://mmppa.co.uk/?page_id=78" target="_blank">F Bailey and Son</a>, is over a hundred years old (established 1905). People travel from miles around for their award winning Melton Mowbray pork pies. We bought one and have since been back for another! This is a real traditional local butcher. He works on a large wooden block table while chatting freely with his cutomers. Unfortunately Bailey's is no more! The butchers closed permanently earlier on in 2017. The owners have retired we were told.<br />
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Just down the road we stopped at the first of two village greens. This one is called Cross Green because of the remains of an ancient cross. The origins of this stone structure are unclear: one theory suggests it was erected as thanks to God after nearby villages were decimated by the plague but Upper Broughton was spared .... or it could be the remains of a 13th century market cross.<br />
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Children's swings take up one side of the green. They blend into the rural character of the village as you can see from the see-saw in the photograph. Under the autumn leaves we found this beautiful Millenium mosaic. All the little sections represent parts of Upper Broughton village life:<br />
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The stone cross features on the mosaic (at about 9 o'clock ... the light was all wrong to photograph it from a different angle!) then working round clockwise they have included a huntsman in a red jacket (the villagers are proud of their links to the Quorn Hunt ... indeed Prince Charles used to hunt here often); a tennis racquet and paint brushes denote the leisure activities; a pork pie is followed by a water spring because the ancient Woundheal Spring is to be found nearby (in the early 1900s this was a popular healing place for skin diseases. A circular bath was constructed (10ft wide and 5ft deep) where people could bathe but this is now on private land and visitors are discouraged apparently ... <a href="http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page_id__916_path__0p2p193p39p133p.aspx" target="_blank">more details here</a>); next a lamb represents the farming links in the village; the cricket stumps show their sporting connections while the Belvoir Angel is included because in the 1700s a local stone mason was responsible for the listed slate headstones in the churchyard. <br />
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Cross Green is overlooked by Willow Cottage, a timber framed building that dates back to the 1600s. Back then this was the favoured method of building (with thatch rather than slate for the roof) but once the brick works and the railway opened things changed.<br />
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... then we took our lives in our hands to cross the busy main road to Melton, the A606. The main road used to go right through the village along Bottom Green and Station Road ... we walked right down the middle of both those roads with very few cars to worry us! The A606 was rerouted in 1928. </div>
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We have travelled along the Melton Road quite frequently but never stopped at the village pub even though it looks an inviting place. The <a href="http://officialpubguide.com/pubdetails.php?pubid=5510" target="_blank">Golden Fleece</a> sits at the side of the A606 and whenever we pass the conservatory is always full of people enjoying a cosy drink or a meal ... but not today! The conservatory was filled with pub furniture as the place is being given a facelift. Oh well, we will have to come back another day!</div>
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..... and just round the corner is St Luke's Church. This is the centre of the original Anglo Saxon village. Yew Tree House (next to the church) probably sits on the site of the original Manor House.<br />
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We rang the key keeper who very kindly came to show us round. The <a href="http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/broughton-sulney/hintro.php" target="_blank">Southwell Church Project</a> is usually a good source of historical information for most Nottinghamshire churches. The entry for Upper Broughton was rather sparce but this gentleman was a fountain of knowledge (and is in fact writing the entry for the Church Project). </div>
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A small carving just inside the porch was thought by some to be part of a tympanum from the original church doorway.</div>
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The carving shows stars and a man who appears to be praying. Our guide pointed out flakes of limewash which suggests this was not an external tympanum: more likely it was part of a larger internal decoration. The three 'sticks' could be the bottom of the three Calvary crosses. Experts have dated it to the Norman period. The porch itself was built in 1733 (date stone over the outer door) but stones and decorative features from previous centuries were used by the builders (a 13th century frieze and a 14th century carved stone).<br />
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Created in 1981 the quilt tells the story of village life during the year. There is a full explaination of the images <a href="http://upperbroughtonrfa4nvm0fpun.objectis.net/church/broughton-quilt" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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At the other end of the church the windows add to the colourful interior:<br />
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One of the pillars has a curious mark scratched into it .....<br />
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.... possibly an ancient act of vandalism!<br />
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The graveyard has 33 examples of slate headstones (one of the largest groups in Nottinghamshire) with some great Belvoir Angels.<br />
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Rev Charles Wildbore (1736? - 1802) is buried here. He was curate of St Luke's from 1768 to his death. He was also editor of the prestigeous<i> Gentleman's Diary or The Mathematical Repository </i>(an almanack of articles revealing day to day life and society in the 18th century) from 1768.<br />
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We thanked our guide and walked up the hill to Top Green. On the way we past the old post office, now converted into a house, but it still has the lovely old shop sign.<br />
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The Top Green has a more peaceful feel than the Cross Green. No swings here just a bench and a sign telling us we have visited at the wrong time of year! In Spring this place will be full of daffodils ... Upper Broughton Daffodils. It has a pure white perianth with a pink crown and a deeper pink eye ... sounds lovely! The bulbs were planted in 1936 in memory of Miss Dowson, the first president of the WI in the village. (It was a Mr Benjamin Dowson who built the Woundheal Spring bath in the late 1800s.)<br />
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We past the impressive Broughton House ...<br />
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...then retraced our footsteps back up Station Road towards the tennis courts. The Upper Broughton Youth and Social Club began life in 1952 all due to the hard graft of Bernard Hayes, a man from New Zealand. You can read an account of Bernard's life <a href="http://upperbroughtonhistory.objectis.net/village-life/tennis-club" target="_blank">here</a>: he made a real difference to Upper Broughton. He arrived in the village in 1946. His wife's sick aunt lived in a house facing Top Green. As the couple nursed their elderly relative they settled into the life of the place and never left. Bernard had a love of tennis and persuaded Colonel Holden of Yew Tree House to allow local children to use his tennis courts one evening a week. Later he persuaded another land owner, Major Victor Smith, to donate a piece of land to build a tennis court for the village. Bernard did most of the work himself. He would be very proud to see it today. He died in 1979 at the age of 91. A remarkable man.<br />
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The railway opened in 1880. This was the ticket office. The line closed for passengers in 1948 but it is still used today by <a href="http://uk.bombardier.com/en/home.html" target="_blank">Bombardier</a> (a train manufacturer) as a line for testing new trains. <br />
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Just up the road is the 21 acre <a href="http://www.sulneynursery.co.uk/home.php" target="_blank">Sulney Nursery</a> that specialises in shrubs and trees.<br />
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We always find people happy to tell us all the delights of the village they live in and this place was no different. Everyone we spoke to praised the place. There was one person I read about who was not so enamoured though ... this was a boy who was evacuated here during the Second World War. He hated the place. He informed his mother he had been placed on a farm where he was forced to bathe in a water butt and he was going to commit suicide if she didn't come immediately to take him home! Well, he got his wish. His name was <a href="http://www.roh.org.uk/people/kenneth-macmillan" target="_blank">Kenneth MacMillan.</a> His mother took him back to Great Yarmouth for a short time then arranged for him to evacuate to Retford where he was placed with a dance teacher. He would go on to join the Royal Ballet as a dancer then as choreographer and Artistic Director. He discovered Darcy Bussell too .... so perhaps we should be pleased he didn't like Upper Broughton! Personally I think he was wrong.<br />
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Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-30363936021730095202016-11-01T15:46:00.005-07:002021-04-09T05:05:32.694-07:00Hickling<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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road and the pub. A couple of swans were sleeping on the bank while mallards and coots fell out with each other in the water. The benches were filled with people throwing bread to them, encouraging more disputes. It is a lovely scene but a quick look around and you can imagine what used to happen here. This was part of the busy Grantham Canal. Heavy mooring bollards line the banks where large barges docked obviously in quite large numbers. Nearby is the <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-425604-canal-warehouse-approximately-50-metres-#.WBimX7NWXX4" target="_blank">Canal Warehouse</a>, a Grade II listed building. This stretch of the canal (from the Trent to the Leicestershire border) was authorised for construction in 1793. Lord Middleton of Wollaton Hall employed James Green as surveyor of the project ... The Duke of Rutland at Belvoir sponsored the rest. James Green was not the first choice as surveyor: at the time <a href="http://canalrivertrustwaterfront.org.uk/history/william-jessop/" target="_blank">William Jessop</a> was the Number 1 canal builder and he actually accepted the job but fell ill so took on the role of supervising the whole thing while Green did the work. Together they created the first English canal entirely dependent on reservoirs for its water supply. It was obviously a lucrative project for all concerned: although the building costs went well over budget the debts had all been paid off by 1805 and shareholders began to see a return on their investments. James Green had a beautiful large house built for himself <a href="http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/SiteData/Root/File/Visit%20us/heritageguide.pdf" target="_blank">(Lenton Abbey House)</a> in the middle of what is now the Nottingham University Park.<br />
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The canal towpath gives walkers, fishermen and cyclists easy access to the counytyside next to the canal and on the day of our visit we could see it was well used. Our route took us away from there into the village itself. There are <a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/nottinghamshire/hickling#.WBi5ALNWXX5" target="_blank">31 listed structures</a> in this village - 17 houses, headstones in the church and parts of the canal itself.<br />
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We made for St Lukes Church and phoned the very friendly warden who came and showed us round.<br />
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The graveyard is filled with more good examples of the 18th century slate headstones, some with Belvoir Angels, but it was the stone embedded in the church wall that grabbed our interest.<br />
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As the church warden pointed out it had obviously been cut down to fit but it was still in very good condition to say it is over 600 years old. Conservationists suggested it should be removed and brought inside to protect it but the idea was not acted upon.<br />
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To get inside we had to pass through this wonderful 14th century oak door. The iron work is just beautiful and the door itself shows damage dating back to the days of the English Civil Wars. <br />
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Inside is an alms box dated 1685: some of the pews obviously belong to the same period as the poppy head carvings are being worn away by generations of use. This old table is supported by bits from an old four poster bed ...<br />
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.... but you hardly notice these objects because your attention is immediately drawn to the brightly coloured East window. It dates back to 1839 but bits of the glass are actually from the original medieval windows This window was commissioned by William Mandell, B.D., vice-president of Queens' College, Cambridge. Queen's College hold the advowson for the church (they have the right to nominate a suitable candidate for a vacant church living for this parish)so, as you would expect, a number of incumbants were Cambridge men. <span class="st" data-hveid="48"></span> <br />
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Tucked away in a small dark room at the back we found The Queen's College Coat of Arms next to the Royal Coat of Arms of George II. These paintings date back to the early 1720s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Arms of the Queen's College Cambridge</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Arms of King George II</i></td></tr>
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As you walk down the aisle you feel the need to walk round this very imposing brass. but it is rather a tight squeeze. This is the Babington Brass ... a memorial to Ralph Babington, a rector of the church. It is the
finest example of a brass in the East Midlands and just makes you want
to grab a sheet of paper and get rubbing!<br />
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Ralph Babington died in 1521 before Henry VIII broke with Rome. Sixty five years later (1586) his
great nephew, Anthony Babington, was planning to kill the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I
in order to give the throne to a Catholic monarch, Mary Queen of Scots.
Mary had a legitimate claim to the throne (Mary's son James VI of
Scotland would become James I of England in 1603 when Elizabeth died) so
Elizabeth was keeping a very close eye on her rival. Letters between
Babington and Mary were intercepted, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babington_Plot" target="_blank">Babington Plot</a> was revealed and they were both tried and
executed for treason.<br />
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"HERE LIETh THE BODY OF THE REVEREND M RICH COKE CURATE OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 9TH DAY OF DECEMBER IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1724 AND IN THE 25TH YEAR OF HIS AGE"<br />
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Closer to the altar is the cover of a one-thousand year old Saxon coffin. It has been described as "one of the finest things of its kind in the land" (Arthur Mee <i>Nottinghamshire).</i><div>
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The grave cover was so impressive we didn't really notice the stone 'slab' laying nearby ... once I started reading about the church I wish I had taken more notice! We had ignored the 'Vaux tombstone' (you can see a <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/hickling/hmonumnt.php" target="_blank">photo here</a>). It was found in the graveyard in 1983 and moved into the church to protect it. You can see where the effigy of William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden, used to lie and round the edge the Latin inscription reads; 'Here lies William Harrowden on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen.'<br />
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William Vaux was another renowned Catholic. His second wife was Mary Tresham whose grandfather <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Tresham_(died_1559)" target="_blank">Thomas Tresham</a> was a leading figure in Henry VIII's court. Unfortunately her young nephew <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham" target="_blank">Francis Tresham</a> was not so popular with the royals ... he was fined £3,000 (around half a million pounds in today's money) for his involvement in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex%27s_Rebellion" target="_blank">Essex Plot</a> against Queen Elizabeth I then, even more disasterously, he ganged up with Guy Fawkes! Historians believe it was Francis Tresham who sent the <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/education-resources/Parliament%20explained%20articles/lord-monteagle-letter-pdf.pdf" target="_blank">warning letter</a> to his relative that lead to the discovery of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot" target="_blank">Gunpowder Plot</a>. Luckily for him Francis died before he could be brought to trial - they chopped his head off his dead body and branded him a traitor anyway.<br />
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Near the altar are a couple of chairs with a happier connection to
our royals. Instantly recognisable carvings of the young Victoria and
Albert in the early days of their marriage (we won't spoil the mood by metioning his untimely death!). <br />
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Half an hour in this church and you feel like you have wandered into a time machine! (The Southwell Church Project has a detailed description of <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/hickling/hintro.php" target="_blank">St Lukes here</a>).<br />
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One historical detail I discovered since our visit concerns a child who was born in Hickling in July 1865. He was orphaned at just 3
months of age and adopted by an American family then taken to
Farmington in Michigan. His name was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_M._Warner" target="_blank">Fred M Warner</a>. He grew up to be an American politician and serve as the 26th Governor of Michigan from 1905 to 1911.<br />
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We thanked the warden for his time, left the church and continued into the village The old properties are surrounded by new builds but the place has a good community feel. We saw notices for the village cinema group and the <a href="https://hicklingnotts.org/scarecrow-festival/" target="_blank">Village Scarecrow Festival</a>; there were lots of people about passing the time of day and even the gardens had a cheerful look to them. <br />
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We found the old methodist chapel ... which is now a house ....<br />
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... and the old school .... which is now the Village Hall ...<br />
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Then we decided to wander back towards the pub. This was not our first visit to <a href="http://www.theploughinnhickling.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Plough</a> ... a cosy atmosphere, good real ale and they serve local produce on the food menu so what is not to like? Nothing! We will be back .... I fancy a walk along that towpath someday soon. Who knows we might find hidden treasure. In 1771 a farmer was ploughing a field near by when he unearthed an urn containing 200 silver coins and medals buried there in Roman times. Must remember to bring the metal detector next time!<br />
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Map of Hickling: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8518865,-0.9836411,15z" target="_blank">click here</a>.<br />
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<br /></div>Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-5601124710042974262016-10-12T08:12:00.002-07:002016-10-12T12:27:08.061-07:00Kinoulton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If the name of Arthur Lowe is mentioned people today probably imagine
the officious <i>Dad's Army</i> character ("Don't tell them your name, Pike!").
Well the <a href="http://www.arthurlowe.co.uk/" target="_blank">Arthur Lowe</a>
who lived in Kinoulton was not that one ... this Arthur Lowe (1865 -
1940) was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. No, I had never heard
of him either but Monet and Turner spring to mind when you look at his
paintings - most of which show scenes from around Kinoulton. This one is in fact entitled <i>Kinoulton Village: </i></div>
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Here is the Grantham Canal:<br />
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During his life time he exhibited at Nottingham Castle and at the Royal Academy amongst other places. After his death in 1940, at Kinoulton, his widow donated his work to different galleries around the north of England. I think Nottingham Castle should borrow them all back for an exhibition.<br />
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Kinoulton is surprisingly large .... but the present village boundary incorporates the historical sites of more than one village and its centre has moved about over the course of the centuries!<br />
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The name indicates the village was originally a <i>tun </i>or farmstead. It belonged to a wealthy woman named Cynehild. The Domesday Book records it as Chineltune, no church is recorded and it had very little value (being worth only 2s 8d). The lost village of Newbold, just next door, was far more significant ... £10 in the Domesday accounts. The lord of the manor at the time was<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morcar" target="_blank"> Morcar </a>(died 1087), the Earl of Northumbria. Here was a powerful family. His grandmother was the wonderful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva" target="_blank">Lady Godiva</a> and his sister, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ealdgyth,_daughter_of_Earl_%C3%86lfgar" target="_blank">Ealdgyth</a>, was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Godwinson" target="_blank">King Harold</a>. In 1066 Morcar and his brother were defeated in battle at York when Harold's brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tostig_Godwinson" target="_blank">Tostig</a> made a bid for the English crown. Harold had to quickly march north to save the kingdom at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror" target="_blank">William the Conqueror</a> in the meantime landed at Hastings and had plenty of time to organise his troops before the exhausted English army marched south again to be defeated. Morcar and his men did not turn up for the Battle of Hastings and later submitted to the newly crowned William so keeping his lands and titles.<br />
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Over the next few years Morcar fell in and out of favour with William but by 1071 William decided he was sick of Morcar's insubordination and threw him into a dungeon. The Newbold manor was given to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peverel" target="_blank">William Peverel</a> ... one of 164 given to him at the time! He was obviously a favourite of the king but then rumour had it that Peverel was William the Conqueror's illegitimate son.<br />
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Today the foundations of the manor house and the surrounding crofts and tracks are still visible from aerial photographs and Newbold is a <a href="https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1019634" target="_blank">listed and protected site under Historic England</a> but for many years the village had faded from memory. It is not clear why it was deserted but some historians think its close proximity to Colston Bassett probably holds the answer. In 1604 Colston Bassett suffered a terrible plague: the village was completely closed off for a time and historians think the Newbold villagers took themselves away to safer places.<br />
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A second 'lost village' that made up present day Kinoulton was Warberge. It lay on the Plumtree side but very little else is known about it.<br />
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During the 12th century the de Villiers family were lords of Kinoulton (looking after it for the real owners, the Butlers of Warrington). Now we came across the de Villiers at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/tythby-or-tithby.html" target="_blank">Tythby</a> (remember poor little Beatrix de Villiers madly in love with King John but he forced her to marry one of his noblemen?) Well, the family seat here was Kinoulton Castle, a defensive structure. Yes, a castle! Now don't start imagining large stone turrets and deep moats ... this was not fortified. There was a civil war taking place at the time. The de Villiers together with the Butlers of Warrington fought under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulf_de_Gernon,_4th_Earl_of_Chester" target="_blank">Ranulph, Earl of Chester</a>, and supported the future King Henry II. Just up the road at Gotham the Earl of Leicester also had a castle. He hated Ranulph and supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen,_King_of_England" target="_blank">King Stephen</a> but the de Villiers and Leicester made a pact as neither wanted the expense or inconvenience of having to defend their lands. After Stephen's death in 1154 Henry II became king and demanded the destruction of all unlicensed castles so Kinoulton Castle disappeared. (The deVilliers family didn't disappear though ... in the 1600s George de Villiers was to be the bedfellow of King James I; close advisor to Charles I and son-in-law to the Earl of Rutland).<br />
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There is a tale that Archbishop Cranmer had a palace in Kinoulton. Apparently it used to stand near the site of the old church on the hill and had been converted into a grange. Briscoe writing <i>Old Nottinghamshire </i>in 1884 agreed that this was possibly the case. He explained that until 1793 the village church was <a href="http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/kinoulton-old-church/hintro.php" target="_blank">St Wilfrid Church</a> which had been built during the 12th century by Roger Archbishop of York. Cranmer was a prelate for the see of York before being promoted to Archbishop of Canterbury so it is possible he had some connection to this parish as it is so close to his Aslockton birthplace. Kinoulton parish was a 'Peculiar' which meant vicars there had the power to hold civil courts; he could grant marriage licences, hold probate and dish out punishments for misdemeanours. This status had arisen because the archbishop of York once had a residency in the area. According to one 18th century incumbent, "... four Archbishops of York resided sometimes at their palace here; no trace of which remains except the moat." so we know there is an archbishop connection but there is no evidence to suggest Cranmer had any official connection with this parish.<br />
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They know how to look after the clergy in these parts ... the archbishops had palaces but the vicars didn't do too badly either. The Old Rectory (not photographed) was designed by the famous Nottinghamshire architect, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chambers_Hine" target="_blank">Thomas Chambers Hine. </a><br />
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St Wilfrid church stood on a hill about a mile outside of the present day
village. Many years ago a large old granite stone also stood in the middle of the fields near the church. Today we would have seen it and deduced a glacier had dumped it there. Very logical ... the residents of Kinoulton were far more imaginative! Apparently when St Wilfrid's was newly built the devil himself was visiting Lincoln and was so furious at the sight of the new structure he threw the rock intending to destroy the little church. Luckily he missed. White (<i>History of Nottinghamshire </i>1832) says the rock was part of a druid temple but it had been broken up and used for building material before his book was published.<br />
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Time did the devil's work ... the church fell into disrepair and by
1780 the village congregation were using a more conveniently placed
chapel (probably an old barn) near the village centre.
The Earl of Gainsbourgh stepped in and built St Luke's Church in 1793
using bricks from the local brick yard. Only the foundations of the old
church remain ... and few gravestones. I wonder if it was one of these 'abandoned' headstones that a village baker used to line his oven. An old local story tells us the baker was discovered when a customer noticed his bread was imprinted with "in loving memory". <br />
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We visited on a Sunday so it is hardly surprising that the church was busy but the service had ended and the people had all stayed to chat and enjoy a coffee. They were most friendly and welcoming, taking us inside to show off their well kept Georgian church. They have rearranged the pews to make room for a small coffee area and once a week the building turns into a Post Office ... very convenient!<br />
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The Earl of Gainsborough who built the church was Charles Henry Neville Noel Esq. The very welcoming village pub is called the Nevile Arms (with one L). Part of the famous family from the Tudor court. *<br />
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In 1928 Sir William Jesse Hind, a wealthy Nottingham solicitor, bought the pub and changed the name to the Hind Arms. The locals were not impressed and mounted a petition to get it changed back. Sir Jesse left a different landmark behind but that too has sadly disappeared for the time being. He planted a row of 184 poplar trees along Vimy Ridge (that runs between Owthorpe Lane and the canal tow path) that until recently could be seen for miles around. They were planted to commemorate the death of his son, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Jesse Francis Montague ( "Monty "),</span> </span>and other fellow officers at the Battle of the Somme during the First World War. Unfortunately the trees grew to over 90 feet and became quite hazardous so had to be felled in February 1998. Saplings have been planted in their place so the landmark will return given time. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tree stump near this sign is all that remains of "the
splendid Turkey oak, perhaps commemorating victory in the Crimea"
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I would liked to have met Sir Jesse Hind. He sounds like a very social minded person. He is described as the "Friend of Crippled Soldiers". Following his son's death he founded and equipped a pioneering orthopaedic ward to treat injured servicemen. His farm at Kilnoulton was an agricultural training ground where ex-servicemen and orphans could gain qualifications and work experience all at Jesse Hind's expense. <br />
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In 1769 Kinoulton became quite famous as a spa retreat and dressing
rooms were constructed near a local spring after the water was said to
have healing properties. The spa is named on modern maps but the paths
to it are overgrown now.<br />
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Village life today is still based around rural activities but a large proportion of the residents now commute elsewhere for work. The old barns have been converted into comfortable homes for people not animals and the rows of workers' cottages given a facelift. The Grantham Canal is no longer filled with brick and coal barges and the towpaths are used for country walks. The village has changed with the times.<br />
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We finished our walk around Kinoulton with a decent pint of Harvest Pale in the Nevile Arms. We seem to be on a good run with village pubs at the moment. North of the A52 most villages seem to have lost their pubs but south of the A52 and east of the A46 all appears to be well with a tally of nine pubs in nine villages so far.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Map of Kinoulton: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Kinoulton,+Nottingham/@52.8716103,-0.9784072,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879daaaabf17c15:0x43a8beafbb7d9d9c?hl=en" target="_blank">click here.</a></span></span>
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References:<br />
<i>History of Nottinghamshire</i> by W White (1832)<br />
<i>The Nottinghamshire Village Book</i> By Notts WI (1989)<br />
<i>Old Nottinghamshire</i> by J P Briscoe (1884)<br />
<i>Nottinghamshire Guardian </i>by W E Doubleday<br />
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* An "aside": Some modern literary scholars claim that William Shakespeare was not actually the author of the plays: Henry Neville has been put forward as the real genius behind the name. Another candidate is Roger Manners the 6th Earl of Rutland <a href="http://shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org/wp-content/uploads/Oxfordian2012_Rubenstein_Neville.pdf" target="_blank">(more information here).</a>Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-5294219859144209082016-09-03T10:16:00.000-07:002016-09-03T10:28:03.978-07:00Cotgrave<br />
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I <b>could</b> start by telling you that Cotgrave has a <i><b>very</b></i>
long history: Ice Age
flint tools have been found here and a Neolithic monument with eight
Bronze Age burials; a 6th century Anglo Saxon
burial ground where seventy-four adults and
thirteen children had been laid to rest (one of the adults had
been buried with a shield and spear) has been excavated at Mill Hill just outside the village and there's also evidence of an Iron
Age settlement .... but I won't! Instead I will tell you that tucked away in the graveyard at Cotgrave are Robert Dalziel Runcie and his wife Ann. They were the parents of <a href="http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/robert-alexander-kennedy-runcie-102nd-archbishop-of-canterbury.html" target="_blank">Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (1921 - 2000) .</a>... now the great man himself never lived in Cotgrave but it stands to reason that he must have visited the place and his story is worth telling!<br />
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At the age of 24 Runcie was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. His citation reads as follows:<br />
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<i> <b></b>'One of his three tanks was knocked out by an anti-tank
gun and set on fire. Runcie discovered that one of his men was
trapped in the tank and went across open ground under enemy fire in
order to pull out this remaining man who was unconscious. He succeeded
in getting him out.' Citation for Gallantry for the Military Cross:
March 1945</i><br />
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The following day he was involved in a battle to destroy three anti-tank guns making him the only modern-day Archbishop who is known to have killed someone.<i><br /></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11133894/james-runcie-on-grantchester.html" target="_blank">Runcie's son, James</a>, is a successful writer of novels and television scripts. Recently he has been working on <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3747572/" target="_blank">Grantchester</a>,</i> a popular TV series based on a crime fighting clergyman with a wartime past ... the character is loosely based on Archbishop Runcie. <br />
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The Cotgrave Cross (which is a stone column not a cross!) is situated just outside the churchyard on the corner of the very busy main road junction. It looks like a really old village monument but photographs from the 1920s reveal it was not in situ then so this is a relatively 'new' addition. The stone pillar itself dates back to the 16th century but, according to<a href="http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=5685&forum=2" target="_blank"> a local forum</a>, it was discovered and dug up from the Rectory garden then placed at the crossroads ... hence the name The Cotgrave Cross. </div>
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The large village War Memorial is in the churchyard. A suggestion to move
the Cotgrave Cross to make way for the Memorial was discussed recently
but rejected because of the cost.<br />
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Cotgrave was the home of a war hero. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hayes_(British_Army_soldier)" target="_blank"> Ernest Hayes</a> was awarded the Military Medal three times during the Great War, one of only 180 men to do so. He survived the war but died in Beeston in 1938 aged only 39 years old. His brother John Hayes died in action and has no grave just a commemoration on the Thiepval Memorial. <br />
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The Cotgrave branch of the British Legion are involved in <a href="http://cbocgwp.co.uk/getting-started/" target="_blank">a project to record the personal, family and military histories </a>of the fourteen men who gave their lives in the First World War. It really brings these young men to life for us: Earl Manver's under-gardener who enlisted at 15, was quickly promoted to lance corporal then died aged 17; the 22 year old who bought an engagement ring but died before popping the question and two young neighbours who enlisted on the same day and were killed within a few weeks of each other ... one of these lads lived in Vine Cottage whilst (<a href="http://cbocgwp.co.uk/ernest-reeve/" target="_blank">Ernest Reeve</a>) had lived right next door at the <a href="http://www.roseandcrowncotgrave.co.uk/" target="_blank">Rose and; Crown.</a> If you follow the link to his name you will see just how much the pub has improved since his day!!<br />
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We called in to the pub while we were passing and enjoyed a refreshing half an hour in the sunny garden. The place has a friendly atmosphere and a good selection of well kept ales .... a place we will definitely be going back to visit.<br />
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We tried but failed get into the All Saints' Church because we
visited on a weekday (the church is open Saturday mornings and
Sundays). Parts of this building date back to the 12th century but the
Domesday Book records "half a church" here in the 11th century. During
an outbreak of the plague in 1637 the church was used to store food with
a hollow stone filled
with vinegar being used to disinfect money paid for the goods.
According to<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotgrave" target="_blank"> Wikipedia</a> that stone is still inside the church. Ninety-three people, including forty-six
children, died from the disease. That was about a fifth of the population. <br />
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Apparently the church had to <a href="http://www.wcarchitects.co.uk/wp/portfolio-item/all-saints-cotgrave/" target="_blank">be restored (by John Cunnington, architect) </a>after
an arson attack in 1996 and two modern stained glass windows were
added: one commemorates the farming traditions of the village and the
second one shows the connection to mining.<br />
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You can get detailed information and photograph about All Saints' Church from the<a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/cotgrave/hintro.php" target="_blank"> Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project</a>. <br />
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The population of Cotgrave exploded in the 1960s when Cotgrave pit was opened. Until then records show a population of 700 to 800 but within a couple of years this figure was 5000 and grew to over 7000. Large housing developments sprang up round the old village centre. Experienced miners from other pits were encouraged to move into these new, fully furnished homes. At first it was people from other Nottinghamshire pits but when miners from Gatehead began to arrive older residents remember special meetings being arranged where local people mixed with the new-comers in order to get used to the different accents and dialects ... a vital health and safety issue in the dangerous mining industry of the time.<br />
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Princess Margaret cut the first sod at the inauguration in 1954 and nine years later the mine began to produce coal: the first Notts mine south of the River Trent. All the coal was destined for the Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station. The pit hit problems in the late 1980s: it lost over £11m in 1988/9. Coal production ended in 1992. There are records of ten fatalities over the 32 years it was in operation. (<a href="http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1993-P10.html#top2" target="_blank">Link to a history of the pit</a>).<br />
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Today the site has been developed into a <a href="http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/planning-and-environment/country-parks/cotgrave" target="_blank">country park </a>and more housing is being built there.<br />
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One area the locals can feel very proud of is the excellent primary education offered by the local schools. <a href="http://www.candlebylane.co.uk/" target="_blank">Candleby Lane Primary School</a> is a leading light in sharing outstanding practice across Nottinghamshire. <a href="http://www.cotgrave-pri.notts.sch.uk/" target="_blank">Cotgrave Church of England School</a> is rated Good by Ofsted and pupils with Special Educational needs fro 3 - 19 years of age can attend <a href="http://www.ashlea.notts.sch.uk/" target="_blank">Ash Lea School.</a><br />
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From a social point of view there are two public houses still in business ... quite an achievement these days! A third pub was built in the 1960s but closed in 2004 and was replaced by new houses. The old <a href="http://www.cotgraveclub.co.uk/" target="_blank">Miners' Welfare, now the Social Club</a>, boasts a main hall capable of seating several hundred people, one of the largest fully equipped stages in the East Midlands, several bars and entertain suites, snooker rooms and a large garden ... showing what a thriving community this was when the pit was open. Obviously the pit closure caused a few economic issues but the village has weathered that storm and continues to grow.<br />
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Owthorpe is one of the smallest villages we have visited. It sits on a road signposted as a dead end! At a glance it is a small cluster of residential farm buildings, a community centre and a padlocked church. You might think there's no reason to visit here unless you know one of the residents. You would be wrong. This "out of the way" feel is actually a selling point. Sitting next to the Grantham Canal, just outside the main village, you will find <a href="http://www.thelittleretreatdayspa.co.uk/home/4585915655">The Little Retreat Spa </a>offering relaxing treatments and cream teas. Close by is <a href="http://www.woodviewcottages.co.uk/">Woodview Cottage </a>offering trout and course fishing holidays. The village is surrounded by beautiful countryside a perfect location to get away from it all.</div>
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This is the Leicester / Nottinghamshire border ... where the land used by the famous Quorn Hunt meets the South Notts Hunt territory. South Notts trace their history back to the Earl of Lincoln hunting here in 1677 but The Quorn is recognised as one of the oldest fox hunting packs in the world ... the original hounds were owned by Thomas Boothby in 1696.* Riding with hounds continues to be a traditional rural activity in these parts despite the abolition of fox hunting (Hunting Act 2004). Local residents have given permission for their land to be used and during the autumn and winter months the roads around Owthorpe can become packed with cars of hunt observers chasing the riders.<br />
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We parked on the verge of a country road that was surprisingly quite busy. No wonder the council had dug out a couple of unusual signs:<br />
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The community hall is down the road just passed the interesting collection of old ploughs. This is a surprising large building. It can accommodate 102 people ... that's the whole village population with room to spare! They obviously plan events with lots of friends.<br />
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A footpath takes you passed the hall to the old village church of St Margaret.<br />
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Parts of the church date back to the 12th century when it was a much bigger building. Colonel John Hutchinson had this smaller version built in 1659. It is a strange mixture of stones and colours and the old clock needs some attention but the swifts like it ... there was a nesting pair and their young making a fabulous din in the bell tower the whole time we were there.<br />
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A large padlock prevented us entering so this internal shot was taken through the glass window:<br />
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We could see the 15th century stone font and the Jacobean pulpit with the ornate canopy. We could not see a large wooden screen that is thought to have come from the old Owthorpe Hall. I also wanted to see the two monuments to the Hutchinson family on the wall of the church ... another day perhaps.<br />
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<a href="http://bcw-project.org/biography/john-hutchinson">Colonel John Hutchinson (1615 - 1664)</a> is the most famous resident of the village ... but the fame should really belong to <a href="http://www.cems-oxford.org/projects/lucy-hutchinson/chronology#lucretius-1">Lucy, his wife (1620 - 1681)</a>. She was born in the Tower of London where her father, Sir Allen Apsley, was the Lieutenant in charge of such famous prisoners as Sir Walter Raleigh (it was Lucy's mother who paid for his famous chemical experiments whilst he was incarcerated) and King James I's ex-partner, Robert Carr, the Earl of Somerset. With Robert Carr in prison the King now had a new favourite, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Apsley was married to one of Villier's relatives which helped a great deal when they appointed the new Lieutenant to the Tower. This could be quite a lucrative, and responsible, position. (Oddly enough, before the Hutchinsons bought Owthorpe manor members of the Villiers' family had lived there).<br />
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Lucy married John Hutchinson when she was 18. At first they lived in London where they had twin sons then moved to Owthorpe at the beginning of the Civil War in 1641 where a third son was born. They would have nine children in all. John fought on the side of the Parliamentarians: the Royalists offered him £10,000 to change sides but as a man of principle he refused. He became Governor of Nottingham Castle and moved his family there for their safety. In 1645 he took the garrison of Shelford after a heavy battle. His neighbour Colonel Philip Stanhope died from wounds received in the seige. By 1649 the battles were over and Hutchinson's was the thirteenth signature on King Charles I's death warrent.<br />
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Hutchinson served in Cromwell's government until 1651 when he retired to a quiet life in Nottinghamshire. The old manor house had been almost destroyed by the Royalists and had to be completely rebuilt. The new house was in the field close to the church. Large stone steps took you into a spacious entrance hall with a long table and welcoming fireplace. A staircase lead up to a galleried landing big enough to accommodate an orchestra for the upstairs ball room. The family quasrters were on the left of the Hall while three entertainment rooms for guests were situated on the right. These rooms opened to an outside terrace and bowling green type lawn with flower borders and a shrubbery. Trees had been cut to allow views across the countryside towards Langar and Belvoir Castle.<br />
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He planted the trees that are still growing around the fishpond he created in his grounds. A local group called The Friends of Fishpond Wood have recently worked on this area and on the lost garden (more details<a href="http://www.keyworth-history.org.uk/about/reports/0703.htm"> here</a>).<br />
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According<a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/articles/potterbriscoe/owthorpe.htm"> to a description written by Julius Hutchinson in 1775</a>, "All parts were built so substantially, and so well secured, that neither fire nor thieves could penetrate from room to room, nor from one flight of stairs to another." Were they expecting trouble when they designed the house? They should have been. Royalty returned to the throne in 1660. While the other Regicides suffered terrible executions Hutchinson escaped unscathed but riddled with guilt and remorse. He described himself as having been "involved in so horrid a crime as merits no indulgence". On his retirement he had distanced himself from Cromwell and friends and relatives petitioning on his behalf suggested he had secretly been working in favour of the Royalist cause (there is no evidence to support this claim though!). He was left in peace for a short time.<br />
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They arrested him in October 1663 as he walked to church, a short distance from his secure house. They accused him of being involved in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnley_Wood_Plot">Farnley Wood Plot</a>, an uprising against the King. It was probably a trumped up charge to get him imprisoned. Twenty six men were arrested and sentenced to be hung drawn and quartered ... again Hutchinson was not one of them. <br />
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They kept him on the Tower of London but transferred him to the less salubrious surroundings of Sandcastle in Kent where he died of a fever in September 1664. Lucy was granted permission to bring his body home but it was not an easy journey. A hearse with six horses in full mourning gear was sent. Firstly the castle Governor demaned a ransom then some of the villagers along the route were rather hostile to the late Roundhead and skermishes broke out. It would have been quite a relief once he was laid to rest in St Margaret's Church.<br />
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The Hutchinson family vault is inside but the enterance has been lost. Part of the church floor collapsed in 1859 and stairs to the burial chamber were revealed. They found seventeen coffins: one belonging to a lady was in an upright position chained to the wall.<br />
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There are a number of slate gravestones dating back to the 1700s: some examples of Belvoir Angels and one signed by Sparrow (a local monument mason of the time).<br />
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Lucy sold the house to John's brother Charles and returned to London. I said earlier that the fame should be hers. As a girl she had eschewed the usual female pursuits of needlework and music in favour of Latin. She is the author of <a href="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_chapter/0631220607Sample/Norbrook0631220607.pdf"><i>Order and Disorder</i></a>, the first epic poem by a woman in the English language. She also wrote <i>Memoirs Of The Life Of Colonel Hutchinson. </i>Her purpose here was to inform her children of their father's innocence.<i> </i>It was published by the family in 1806. Lucy was also buried in Owthorpe in 1681.<br />
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Owthorpe Hall was purchased by Sir George Smith Bromley, Bart. We have come across him before .... his family famously set up the first Bank (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%27s_Bank">Smith Bank</a>) and they lived at<a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/east-stoke.html"> East Stoke</a>.<br />
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The Bromleys rented out the house but it fell into disrepair then, around 1825, it was destroyed by fire and the whole place was demolished in 1832. The large ornate garden pots were removed to Stoke Hall ... who knows, they might still be there.<br />
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Map of Owthorpe: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Owthorpe,+Nottingham/@52.8940588,-0.9999964,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879c55ca79bf6c1:0x96996b464a374f24">click here.</a><br />
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<i>* Thomas Boothby (1677 - 1752) inherited Tooley Park in Leicestershire when he was just 15 years old. During his life he was married three times ... each wife increased his wealth which enabled him to dedicate most of his time to hunting and breeding his foxhounds. He was Master of the Quorn Hunt 55 times. Tom O' Tooley sounds a bit of a terror ... he grabbed hold of the local vicar and almost drowned him in a fishpond after the poor cleric made the mistake of telling Mrs Boothby that Tom was keeping a mistress.</i><br />
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Colston Bassett is an interesting village for a number of reasons: firstly there is the spooky old abandoned church ....<br />
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..... then there's the fabulous properties like Tanglewood: designed by the award winning Guy Phoenix and described as "the most luxurious house in Nottinghamshire".....
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.... a truly fabulous place! A third point of interest has to be the <a href="http://www.themartinsarms.co.uk/">Martin's Arms</a> .....<br />
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A map from 1600 shows a building here. It is a comfortable, traditional pub with a great reputation for fine dining. In fact it has been named Nottinghamshire's Dining Pub of the Year five years in a row (2012 - 2016). A visit here is always a pleasure. In the summer months you
can enjoy an evening sitting in the beautiful garden as the sun goes
down .... or during the colder months there is a warm log fire
giving a cosy glow. I think this is probably the main reason for people to visit this quiet corner of the county.<br />
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Generations of estate workers enjoyed the hospitality of this hostelry when it belonged to the Colston Bassett estate. It was sold into private ownership in 1990. It was named after one of the Squires: Mr Henry Martin Esq.<br />
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The village itself also took its name from the estate land owners. The Colston part dates back to before the Domesday Book when the <i>tun </i>(or settlement) belonged to a Saxon or Scandinavian named Col. The Bassett part refers to a wealthy Norman family. Ralph Basset was Lord Chief Justice of England in 1120 when King Henry I awarded him the manor.<br />
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Bassett was not a popular figure. At one session of the Leicestershire
Assizes he condemned eighty criminals to the death sentence and six more
to undergo terrible tortures as punishments. Apparently he made
himself a large fortune from the forfeiture of goods. He had a bit of a
conscience about it though as he gave quite a bit of land to religious
orders to gain some goodwill in heaven.<br />
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The village stayed with the Bassett family for eight generations.
Some time during the 1200s King Edward I granted permission for a market
and fair in the village. Just down the road from the Martin's Arms stands the Market Cross. It is on the
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The last Bassett (another
Ralph) died in 1390 when the estate passed to a nephew, Sir Hugh Shirley
then onto another relative - a member of the Stafford family. Now here
is an interesting bunch! Three of them were Dukes of Buckingham. The
1st Buckingham (Humphrey Stafford 1402 - 1460 was created Duke in 1444))
inherited massive estates in over a dozen counties when he was still an
infant. After his mother's death he became one of the greatest
landowners in England. Despite his huge wealth he fell into debt
because he was Captain of the Calais garrison and was responsible for
ensuring the men were paid which he did from his own pocket. By the
time he left France in 1451 the Crown owed him almost £20,000 (a hefty
sum even today!). He died in the Battle of Northampton supporting King
Henry VI during the War of the Roses.<br />
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His young grandson,
Henry Stafford 1454 - 1483, became the 2nd Duke of Buckingham (Henry's
father had died of the plague two years earlier). At the age of 11 Henry
was married to King Edward IV's sister in law, Catherine Woodville.
When Edward IV died in 1483 Henry helped to put Richard III on the
throne instead of Edward's son. Edward's children were placed in the
Tower of London for their protection .... unfortunately it didn't help:
the mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower has never been
solved but Henry Stafford is one of the principle suspects for their
murder. Later that year Henry changed allegiance and plotted against
Richard III in favour of Henry Tudor. Richard uncovered the plot and had
Henry Stafford arrested and beheaded without trial the next day. His
lands and titles were forfeit to the crown.<br />
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Henry's
five year old son, Edward 1478 - 1521, spent the next couple of years
being hidden away in various houses until the death of Richard III at
Bosworth when King Henry VII restored the family fortunes. The 3rd Duke
of Buckingham had a very close relationship with the royal family. He
attended their weddings; took part in Henry VIII's coronation as bearer
of the crown; he was a member of the Privy Council and attended the
Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1521. Unfortunately Henry VIII did not
take too kindly to rumours that Edward was suggesting himself as a contender for the crown should the King die without a male heir. Edward's strong Plantagenet bloodline gave Henry good reason to be concerned so he conducted
the investigation himself. Edward was arrested, tried, convicted and
executed for treason. Henry profitted greatly from the death ...Edward's lands and titles were forfeit to the crown
and this time they were never returned. His 'poor' children had to make
their own way in the world ... they went on to marry into the Percy
family, the Pole family and the Neville family, all familiar names from
Tudor history so no worries, they didn't end up on the poverty line after all!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">A wealthy merchant and one time Sheriff of London, Sir Thomas Kitson, purchased the Colston Bassett estate but it is doubtful he ever lived here (he also owned <a href="http://www.hengravehall.com/weddings/">Hengrave Hall</a> in Suffolk so, lovely as CB is, I can understand why!).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Two generations later the estate passed to the possession of Mr Edward Golding. He too was an absent landowner ... Thomas Hutchinson occupied the Manor House on a forty year lease from 1532. (The Hutchinson family owned nearby Owthorpe Hall and would be strong Parliamentarians during the Civil War.). Golding died in 1584 when his son (another Edward!) was only 11 years old.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> He came of age and took possession of his lands in 1591. He did eventually move into the village. Records show he purchased Colston Bassett Rectory in 1605 .... about the same time as a terrible outbreak of the plague wiped out half the population. There were 83 burials between July 1604 and March 1605. Just like the more famous outbreak at Eyam, Derbyshire, the villagers cut off all communication with anyone from outside and supplies were left at designated spots where coins could be washed in vinegar. </span></span><br />
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That old abandoned church we mentioned earlier was supposed to have stood in the centre of the infected village. <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/colston-bassett-st-mary/hintro.php">St Mary's</a>
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It has been suggested that the plague survivors abandoned their houses and moved the village a short but safe distance away once the disease passed. Modern historians disagree as maps dating back to 1600 reveal the houses had already moved away from the church. The ruins attract photographers and people passing by regularly stop to wander round the old walls and grave yard. It is a scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade I listed building. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Edward Golding was a Royalist during the English Civil War. The conflict split the village and some families.
Colonel Francis Hacker, a staunch Parliamentarian, had a property (Manor
Farm) on Baker's Lane. We heard his sorry story on our visit to <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/east-bridgford.html">East Bridgford.</a> Colonel Hacker's brothers were Royalists.
In May 1643 Francis's younger brother, Thomas, was killed during a
skimish at Colston Bassett. Not a happy time for Francis then. The
Colonel was eventually hanged, drawn and quartered because he had signed King Charle's I's
death warrent. His poor wife was partly to blame because she innocently handed over the offending document to his accusers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The Golding family added another point of interest to the village by building this beautiful Hall in 1704. Over the next few years they would also improve the area through planting hundreds of trees. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">By the end of the 1700s the estate was passed to Henry Martin and his son... Henry Martin! They took a real interest in the place. The Rectory and the Yews were built by them, the Sunday School was set up and, as we have already said, the pub was named after them. As keen huntsmen they saw the benefits of continuing with planting trees in order to improve their sport so the greenery of the present day village is down to them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> Mr George Thomas Davy only owned the estate for a short time (1864 - 1876) but he had a major impact. He improved village access by lowering the steep gradient of Hall Lane and had a New Road constructed to Langar. A "small village" of glasshouses was built in the Hall grounds as Mr Davy was a keen gardener: his collection of orchids was legendary! He had a large house built in the grounds for his Head Gardener too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The villagers benefitted when the school was built and part of the park was levelled for a cricket ground.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Robert Millington Knowles was the next owner. Another huntsman: he kept four packs of hounds and first class hunters in the stables.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The old church had been falling into disrepair since the middle of the 1700s so the new building must have been welcome. The restrictions on the new church yard would have been slightly contentious though </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">as
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> We had an interesting chat with the broadcaster <a href="http://richardspendlove.com/">Richard Spendlove MBE</a> during our visit. He has strong connections with the village and had a <a href="http://www.colstonbassetthistory.org.uk/news.php">bible restored and given to the church</a> as, in 1826, it had belonged to John Bonser, one of the wardens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I looked into the village hall and was very impressed. Being able to hold social events, entertainments and meetings adds to the lovely community atmosphere.</span></span><br />
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It is very much a rural village: other local businesses include the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Belle-Vue-Riding-School-Livery-Yard/254473868009909">Belle Vue livery and riding school</a> and a <a href="http://www.belvoir-kennels.co.uk/">Belvoir boarding kennel.<span style="color: black;"> </span></a>Then, of course, there is also the <a href="http://www.colstonbassettdairy.co.uk/">Colston Bassett Dairy</a> which produces award winning traditional Stilton cheese from local milk.<br />
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Every where you look there are signs of a bustling village life from
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<a href="http://www.colstonbassetthistory.org.uk/viewpage.php?page_id=2">A Concise History of Colston Bassett</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Jacks1881/colstonbassett.htm">Nottinghamshire History</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.colstonbassettparishcouncil.co.uk/">Colston Bassett Parish Council </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/monographs/young1942/contents.htm">Rev Evelyn Young, <i> A History of Colston Bassett,</i> (1942)</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">A pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord bitter at the Martins Arms during a lunchtime revisit. There is a reasonable selection of beers available here, but this pub is best known for its outstanding food and beautiful garden setting. Well worth lots and lots of visits.</span></span><br />
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The trees have obviously grown since the road sign was painted but
everything else seemed to have remained the same on the day we visited
... even down to the brown horse being ridden down the road (no, it
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Cropwell Bishop has grown quite considerably in recent times: there
was a population of 300 in the census of 1801 which had risen to 650 by
1850. Today there are over 2000 residents. It is a popular place to
live: it is an attractive village with a rural setting but it is
conveniently close to road and rail links. The increased population has
changed the structure of the village though. In the 1800s it was a
self-contained place with the census listing such occupations as miller,
dressmaker, tailor, shoemaker, lace-maker, carpenter, bricklayer,
butcher, plumber, farmer and publican. Within living memory there were
ten working farms in and around the place. Gypsum was mined nearby and
the Grantham canal was a busy route as it passed by the village. Many
of the houses in West Bridgford were constructed from bricks made at the
Cropwell Bishop brick works then transported to Bridgford by canal
boats. <br />
Well, the gypsum works have gone, the canal is quiet
and the barns have become homes or business premises. Two large housing
estates were built during the 1950s and more new building has occured
since. Today the Co-op seemed to be doing a roaring trade and three
public houses serve the population. When the gypsum works were in
operation there were five pubs ... the Canal Inn and the Plough and
Harrow have long gone.<br />
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The Wheatsheaf is a 400 year old coaching inn; The Chequers which is ungoing a facelift and, just outside the village is The Lime Kiln. Legend has it Dick Turpin stayed in one of these establishments .... someone else who appreciated the close proximity to local road routes!<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Another old building which is no longer
in existance was to be found on Mill Lane ... a steam mill that
dramatically collapsed in 1910 when the steam engine blew up. A second
mill had been located at the top of Fern Hill. This mill was mentioned
in documents dating back to 1686. Unfortunately that mill blew down in a
gale in 1849 but it was rebuilt and working again two years later.
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As you drive into Cropwell Bishop the road sign tells you the village is famous for Stilton Cheese. Our first stop had to be the cheese shop.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cropwellbishopstilton.com/">The Cropwell Bishop Creamery</a> is a great little place. I was imagining a small cheese counter in the warehouse but no, it is a proper shop displaying jars of jams, pickles, fruits and curds; cheese biscuits and waffers; cheese boards and cheese knives .... and a whole selection of cheeses. Now I do not like cheese ... never have done ... I try it every so often but always pull a face and ask for a drink so it came as a real surprise to find their Fig and Orange Stilton is <b>delicious</b>!! The lovely shop assistant, Sarah, was cutting a piece as I was perusing their interesting recipe cards when the delightful smell of oranges tempted me to sample a bit. I was converted. The piece we bought didn't last long when we got it home (nor did the Stilton with Blueberry) so now we have to go back. Right, sales pitch over! (Really is worth a visit though!)<br />
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Down the road in the centre of the village is St Giles Church.
Apparently there are under-ground tunnels under the church after a
Reverend Dobbin had a house built incorporating a passage between the
buildings. Why he needed an underground tunnel to connect his house to
the church is anyone's guess.<br />
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Parts of this building date back to the 13th century. Inside the porch "TB" carefully carved the ceiling beam with the date on 27th August 1608! I love things like that!<br />
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Inside was another treat .... the ancient oak pews had inticate poppy carved heads and had been cut to fit round the stout pillars. Brilliant!<br />
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Near the altar we found slate gravestones (one by Wood of Bingham) that still had the gold inlaid into the carvings. All the ones I have seen so far have been outside so the gold had gone: these revealed how beautiful the stones would have looked when they were new.<br />
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Judging by the number of names on the brass war memorial Cropwell
Bishop played its part in both World Wars. The War Memorial Hall was
built in the village and opened in 1932 by the Prince of Wales (who
would later become King Edward VIII). <br />
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One on the
First World War soldiers who died was Frank Wood, the son of the vicar.
Frank was a subaltern in the Sherwood Foresters attached to the Machine
Gun Company. He was badly injured at Passchendaele on 4th October 1917
and, sadly, died on 23rd October. There is a plaque to his memory and a
stained glass window commemorates the others who gave their lives.<br />
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King Henry VIII granted the manor of Cropwell Bishop (together with
Stoke Bardolph, Gedling, Newton and Carlton) to Sir Edward Norreys.
Henry Norreys inherited the manor from Edward. Henry was a favourite of
the King and was granted positions at Court and grants of more land.
Unfortunately for him he was a favourite of Anne Boleyn too! Norreys had
been an admirer of Anne before she met the King so the two were always
close. On the 1st of May 1536 the royal couple were attending a
jousting match
in which Norreys was competing. Anne dropped a handkerchief, Norreys
picked it up and kept it. King Henry was far from happy and immediately
left the tournament. Henry Norris was arrested and executed along with
Anne's brother and
three other courtiers for high treason, all accused of adultery with the
Queen. His lands reverted back to the Crown and were later granted to
Lady Anne Stanhope of Shelford. Modern historians believe the
accusations were false ... just a way of
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According to Wikipedia
'Queen Elizabeth I always honoured his memory, believing that he died
"in
a noble cause and in the justification of her mother's innocence".'<br />
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Next to the church is the old school house: a Board School built in 1878
after the Elementary Education Act of 1870 which was the beginning of
state education. Compulsory education began in 1880 (but truancy was a
major issue as it meant children had to give up work!). The village
children attended school here until the 1960s. This building is now
used as a Community Building where a wealth of meetings take place each
week ... Gardening and Allotment clubs: Mother & Baby; Cinema Club;
Youth Club; Bridge Club and Zumba to name a few. There is no shortage
of community spirit here.<br />
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We wandered off down the road towards the old Manor when we stopped to photograph a beautiful brown horse at the livery yard.<br />
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The yard belongs to Jon Barlow and the sign on the gate said "horse
breaking". He very kindly explained his job to us: you can't just throw
a saddle on a young animal .... an awful lot of time, dedication and
attention to detail is needed to prepare a really good riding horse.
They breed, train and sell horses at the stable. Jon took us to see
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Just look at those long legs! The father is a German showjumping champion called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WD9RnBcnqE">Chaman</a>
.... not just any old horse .... this is one of Germany's elite! Who
knows, this little foal could be an Olympic medalist of the future!<br />
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"<i>The
Cropwell Bishop stables are situated on the main road quite near Mill
Hill. They stable Hunters, and the hunt meets at Cropwell Bishop every
year. Prince Charles once rode in it .The stables are owned by Mr.Tom
Barlow who was invited to the wedding of His Royal Highness Prince
Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. Prince Charles wanted to buy Mr.
Barlow's horse, Lulu, but Mr. Barlow wanted to keep it."</i></div>
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Thomas David Barlow was Mayor of Rushcliffe 2001 - 2002. He had the
inspired idea of sending out organ donor cards with the electoral
register forms .... 13,000 residents were added to the organ donor
register!<br />
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We thanked the family for an interesting visit and continued up to the old manor house.<br />
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One of nine listed buildings in the village ... the others are cottages
(one of which is a black and white timber framed Tudor cottage on Fern
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St Giles Church; the Methodist Chapel and the Wheatsheaf pub.<br />
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We met some interesting, friendly people during our visit. The village
is bigger than most we have visited so far but it maintains its
'country' feel. Numerous Public Footpath signs point the way into the
surrounding fields and horses are ridden through the streets. It stands
out from the other villages by having more than one pub still in
business ... we will be visiting again .... not just for the cheese.<br />
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This is the first village that we have visited to boast three pubs within its boundaries. Needless to say I had to revisit to try them all. Stop number one was the Lime Kiln which is some way out of Cropwell Bishop if truth be told. It was a fine sunny afternoon when we visited and so we took full advantage of the garden - a well-kept and commodious affair! Unfortunately this pub keeps no real ales and there are no hand-pumped beers. If you want a real ale you have to buy a bottle. Instead I plumped for the keg Bombardier.I was pleasantly surprised!<br />
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Map of Cropwell Bishop: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cropwell+Bishop,+Nottingham/@52.9134588,-0.9801153,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879cf9c4895a3a9:0xd96eb50950c0903d"><i>click here.</i></a> <br />
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This is a really attractive village filled with lovely red brick houses, flower filled gardens, grass verges and mature trees.<br />
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The village was originally named Crophill Botiller. Crophill because of the hill we now call Hoe Hill, and Botiller came from the name of the Lord of the Manor in the 1150s, Richard le Boteler (we met him previously at Tythby .... Richard was butler to the Earl of Chester. He obviously did a great job because the Earl acquired the land here and gave it to Richard who then married Beatrix de Villiers in 1154. He became the fourth Baron of Warrington once Beatrix's father had died).<br />
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At the beginning of the 17th century a plot of land in the village was purchased by Thomas Smith. His son (also Thomas) became a successful mercer (he dealt in cloth) and bought a house in Nottingham. He arranged for local traders to safely keep cash at these premises for a fee. This was the beginnings of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith's_Bank">Smith's Bank</a>, the first bank to be formed outside of London. The Nat West Bank in Old Market Square, Nottingham, still has the name of Smith's Bank on its nameplate. Over the years the Smiths would grow in wealth and influence before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley_baronets">becoming the Bromley baronets </a>(we came across these at East Stoke).<br />
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This beautiful listed building is called The Court. It was built in the 19th century and has a dovecote and stables in the grounds. Some of the extensive gardens have been sold for development in recent years but the new houses have been designed to blend in very well.<br />
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I was particularly taken with the ring for tethering your horse attached to the wall at The Court .... very Victorian!<br />
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This is the first village we have visited that does not have an old church. This is rather surprising given the age of the place (it began in the 1st century as a spinal village off the Fosse Way). Well, there was a medieval chuch here at one time .... it was dedicated to St Nicholas but it was destroyed at the time of the Dissolution.<br />
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The village has a Methodist Chapel. The building is dated 1903 but the congregation dates their history back much further .... it began in 1773 when Thomas Innocent applied to register his home as a dissenting meeting house.<br />
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Unlike an awful lot of the other villages we have visited this one actually has a pub!<br />
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<a href="http://theplough-cropwellbutler.co.uk/index.php">The Plough</a> has a warm, cosy interior, friendly staff and good beer. There seems to be lots going on at the pub if the notice board outside is anything to go by and it is certainly a place we will be visiting again.<br />
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A little further down the road is the Village Hall which was converted from the old school building in 1970. Here residents meet up for clubs and activities all adding to the community spirit of the place. <br />
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Behind the Village Hall, just beyond the children's play area, is the Sheldon Field. This is a brilliant village amenity. The notice board tells you all about it but basically in 1995 a teenage boy wanted to set up a football team so his father rented a field from a local farmer so the dream could become a reality. The field was eventually purchased and, following the early death of the boy's father (David Shaw ) the villagers have taken it over. A great, if somewhat sad, story of how a good community can work. <br />
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A lot of people in Nottingham during the Second World War might have been extremely grateful to this good community if they had known what the village had done.<br />
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After the bombing of Coventry Colonel John Turner was given the task of trying to prevent other cities being hit in the same way. He came up with the idea of setting up fires and lights to look like cities from the air. These were called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_site">Starfish Sites</a>. There were over 200 of them across the country designed to protect 81 cities and one was located very near to Cropwell Butler.<br />
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Just after midnight on May 8th/9th 1941 ninety-five German bombers set off to destroy targets in Nottingham and Derby. The first wave hit a few sites in Nottingham but the fires were very quickly dealt with by the fire brigade while a few miles away the Starfish site was ignited. The following waves of bombers believed this brightly lit area was the target as in the dark tanks of burning oil looked like bombed buildings. The intended targets had included the Royal Ordinance Factory, Raleigh and the Rolls Royce Works. Many lives were saved as the bombs landed on fields.<br />
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Map of Cropwell Butler: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cropwell+Butler,+Nottinghamshire/@52.9337997,-0.9888788,13z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879c58b1a7b85f3:0x33b12967e7946f81">click here.</a><br />
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* History of Cropwell Butler's Methodist Chapel: <a href="http://www.cropwellbutlerchapel.org.uk/Early%20History.pdf">click here</a>.Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-37550575854532391122016-03-08T14:48:00.002-08:002016-03-09T12:35:55.524-08:00Tythby (or Tithby)Picture a small group of farms surrounding a church, place them on a crossroad in the middle of Nottinghamshire fields and you have Tythby.<br />
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It seems to be a place that modern developers have passed by and yet this is the final resting place of a man who was knighted for building literally thousands of new houses and improving the lives of the Nottinghamshire working classes.<br />
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Sir William Crane was elected as Chairman of the Notts Housing Committee in 1919. Over the next 38 years he pushed forward with plans to demolish old slum housing and move the inhabitants into brand new council houses in Aspley, Bilborough, Broxtowe and Strelley. People were overjoyed to have spacious homes with indoor bathrooms in a more salubrious environment. He didn't just give them a new house: he gave them a healthier life.<br />
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There is a window dedicated to the memory of Crane's mother inside the church.<br />
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The only other stained glass in the church is behind the altar:<br />
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This one has a strange mark in the corner. It is similar to the Belvoir Angel engravings found on 18th century slate gravestones but this is in fact the maker's signature ... <a href="http://popeandparr.com/content/view/13/38/">Pope & Parr</a> of Nottingham.<br />
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The window was erected in 1955 to the memory of the parents of James and Mary Butler Smith. Now this has echoes of a connection to one of Tythby's earliest patrons: Matthew de Villiers, the Baron of Warrington, who gave Tithby Church to Thurgaton Priory in the 12th century. Matthew Villiers's daughter and heir was Beatrix de Villiers who married Richard le Boteler in 1155 when she was about 15 years of age. Her husband held the post of Butler to the Earl of Chester (this was a very powerful position at the time, not a servant's post as we tend to regard it today). Beatrix and Richard's heirs would rule the region of Warrington for many generations and took the surname 'le Boteler' or Butler.<br />
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Beatrix cousin was also called Beatrix de Villiers but her marriage was far from happy right from the beginning. It has been reported that she was the '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morganatic_marriage">Morganatic wife'</a> of King John (a marriage where the wife and offspring have no rights to the higher ranking person's title or property), however this could be an over-exaggeration ... King John was a bit of a lech by all accounts*. In any case, Beatrix was in love with the King but the feeling was not reciprocated as he gave her away in marriage to Sir Robert Molyneux. The Molyneux family history books record that <i><a href="http://shissem.com/Hissem_Villiers.html">" She bitterly cursed the House of Molyneux and all that bore the name, calling down maledictions of misery, blasting their loves with tragedy." </a> </i><br />
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Now there is a small problem with this family history .... this Beatrix de Villiers was the daughter of Robert de Villiers, grand daughter of Paganus de Villiers; she was born in 1138; she married Robert Molyneux in 1158, she had fours sons to Robert and died in 1165 at the age of 27). All well and good so far .... the problem lies in the fact that King John wasn't born until 1166! I spent ages searching for a younger Beatrix de Villiers (or Beatrice de Villiers) but found nothing.<br />
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At the centre of Tythby is the rather plain looking Church of the Holy Trinity. It is an odd mix of stone and red brick and plain and ornate windows. The roof of the tower is nick-named the Tythby Dovecote. Inside it is packed with shining dark wood box pews. <br />
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A more recent memorial is to the memory of 23 year old Flight Lieutenant Graham, son of Major General Sir Miles Graham who was also a resident of <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/wiverton-hall.html">Wiverton Hall</a>. This young man was part of the 617 Dambusters Squadron who took off from Woodhall Spa on 23rd September 1944 to breach the Dortmund Ems Kanal near Munster. They failed to bomb the target and were returning home when they were attacked by a German fighter plane. They lost three engines and had to bail out when a fire broke out in the fully loaded bomb bay.</div>
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The Latin <i>Dulce et Decorum est pro patria Mori </i>is recognisable to
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poem. Owen was using the phrase to show it was definitely <b>not</b> sweet and glorious to die for one's country. Knowing Major Graham's military record I think he would disagree with the poet.<br />
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Outside the church are a goodly number of slate gravestones by Wood of Bingham (who I recently discovered lived in the house that is now the Pizza place in Union Street, Bingham) and Sparrow. I read about one of the old grave inscriptions recorded in Arthur Mee's The King's England: Nottinghamshire so I went all round the graves looking for it. It relates to a 94 year old man called John Marriott who died in 1866. His wife, Mary, also 94, died a year later and the inscription is on her tomb:<br />
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It made me smile ... in a sort of sad way of course! I looked all over but failed to find the right grave although there were quite a few belonging to the Marriott family. Some were badly weathered though.</div>
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And here we have a John Marriott giving bread money for the poor. Members of the Fillingham family had set up a similar arrangement at the end of the 1700s (we met the Fillinghams at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/syerston.html">Syerston</a>). According to <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/tythby/hintro.php">the church entry in the Southwell Church Project</a> website the bread is still distributed every Christmas morning as stipulated.</div>
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The church fittings include this beautiful large heavy key ( ten inches in length and weighing 1lb 6oz) and iron candle holders made by Jesse Goodband, the last Tythby blacksmith.<br />
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We were really surprised at the large number of cars travelling through here. It is a tiny place, not on a main road, with no shops and no pub so we had imagined there would be quiet roads. How wrong we were.<br />
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One of the land marks of the village is this wonderful AA road sign at the central cross roads:<br />
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I think it is this, and the lovely old fashioned street lamps dotted around the village, that add to the 1930s feel of the place!<br />
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* Well back to King John. As evidence for my statement that he was lecherous I give you the following quotation: <i>"John is given a great taste for lechery by the chroniclers of his age,
and even allowing some embellishment, he did have many illegitimate
children. <u>Matthew Paris </u> accuses him of being envious of many of his barons and kinsfolk, and seducing their more attractive daughters and sisters. <u>Roger of Wendover </u> describes an incident that occurred when John became enamoured of Margaret, the wife of <u>Eustace de Vesci </u> and an illegitimate daughter of King <u>William I of Scotland </u>. Eustace substituted a <u>prostitute </u>
in her place when the king came to Margaret's bed in the dark of night;
the next morning, when John boasted to Vesci of how good his wife was
in bed, Vesci confessed and fled." <a href="http://www.ffish.com/family_tree/Descendants_King_John_of_England/D1.htm">Source</a></i><br />
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<i>The article goes on to list twelve illegitimate children (ten of whom went by the name of 'Fitz Roy' which is Norman-French for <b>Son of the King</b>.) </i><br />
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Map of Tythby: <a href="https://www.google.fr/maps/@52.9252,-0.9715547,16z">click here.</a></div>
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Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-30855305140570357122016-02-26T05:24:00.003-08:002017-04-16T11:02:47.706-07:00Granby & Sutton Cum Granby<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Granby and Sutton cum Granby are attractive villages which enjoy impressive views across the Vale of Belvoir towards the Castle. Today the area has a population of about 300 people and very few amenities but it was once a busy market place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Granby village</i></td></tr>
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In Victorian times Granby had the large Church of All Saints, a Methodist chapel, two mills, a village school, a blacksmith forge, a post office, a dairy, a number of farmhouses and two pubs. Well, the church is still here, and one of the pubs, but the mills have long gone, the school is now the Village Hall and the other buildings have been converted into cosy residential properties. There is old village water pump in the middle of a small village green; the roads twist round in circles or suddenly stop altogether and everything is beautifully neat and tidy .... no wonder they keep doing so well in the Best Kept Village Award.<br />
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Between Granby church and the old chapel is the wonderfully named Dragon Street .....<br />
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..... and on Dragon Street you find the aptly named <a href="http://www.thegoodpubguide.co.uk/pub/view/Marquis-of-Granby-NG13-9PN">Marquis of Granby</a> public house.<br />
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The Marquis of Granby is the title used by the eldest sons of the Dukes of Rutland who have lived at Belvoir Castle for over 900 years. The Marquis referred to in the pub name was John Manners (1721 - 1770) eldest son of the 3rd Duke. Rather amazingly he was educated at Eton and left in 1732 ..... aged 11 .... then he graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1738 ..... and people complain about the state of education today! He was returned as Member of Parliament for Grantham in 1741.... he didn't bother with any election campaigning and unfortunately he was unable to attend the parliamentary debates because he was in Europe at the time! He went on a Grand Tour in 1740 and returned home in 1742! Indeed, in the whole parliamentary session for that Government he only attended one sitting in the House! In these early years he gained a reputation as a gambler and a racing man with heavy debts to his name: King George II once described him as ‘a sot, a bully, that does nothing but drink and quarrel, a brute’ and yet the Marquis was to become one of the most well loved soldiers of his generation. He was one of the first officers to understand the importance of morale in the army. He took a real interest in his men and their welfare, even ensuring injured men were well cared for after their active service. It has been said there are a record number of pubs named after him because he helped set up his ex servicemen as pub landlords. The public house at Granby dates back to the 1700s and is believed to be the first of that name.<br />
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King George eventually changed his poor opinion of the Marquis after the latter achieved success in his military career. Because of his courage and tactical skills he was recognised as a real British military hero. At the Battle of Warburg his men faced an army with three times their number of troops but the Marquis out-manoeuvred the enemy and led his men to victory. His opponent (the Duc of Broglie) was so impressed he commissioned <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Marquis+of+Granby+by+Joshua+Reynolds&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNh_6agJPLAhUBCBoKHdcQA60Q_AUIBygB&biw=1333&bih=648#imgrc=xyzlYibnHlob8M%3A">Sir Joshua Reynolds to paint a portrait of the Marquis</a>!<br />
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This famous portrait shows him as pilgarlic (<i>bald headed</i> ... I have always wanted to use that word!). Famously, in the chaos of battle, the Marquis lost his wig and hat subsequently forcing him to salute his commanding officer with his bald head uncovered. The British Army still has a tradition in force today that non-commissioned officers of the Royal Horse Guard (his regiment) are allowed to salute superiors without wearing headgear.<br />
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The Marquis died in 1770, nine years before his father so he never became the Duke of Rutland.<br />
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This small pub (it has two rooms) has a reputation for serving good ale. It is a <a href="http://brewsters.co.uk/">Brewster</a> pub: a brewery set up by Sara Barton in 1998 (<i>Brewster</i> is an Old English word for a female brewer). Her highly regarded craft beers have picked up several Gold Medals since then.<br />
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The other village pub, The Boot & Shoe, has recently closed down and the land purchased by housing developers.<br />
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The oldest cottage in the village bares a date stone for 1752:<br />
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But the oldest building in the village is All Saints Church:<br />
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The Domesday Book lists Granby as having a church and a priest but in 1812 a Roman altar was discovered buried in the churchyard which suggests this was a place of worship long before the Conquest.<br />
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Inside the church is rather plain. There is a modern stained glass window over the altar (2002); the 19th century font sits on top of the 14th century font it replaced; the altar rail and the oak pulpit date back to the 1600s and there are two piscinas. Nothing unusual there then. The pews are interesting though. Each has an intricate carving on top. There is a mermaid and a merman, male figures holding shields, angels and grotesque animals. They were carved about 1440.<br />
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The stone memorials are also interesting. One is placed in front of the altar and is in memory of Abigail Frost who died in 1749. She was the sister of Thomas Secker. Who? I hear you ask ... exactly! We met Thomas Secker at Sibthorpe where he was born ... he grew up to be the Archbishop of Canterbury who christened, confirmed, married and crowned King George III but unlike Thomas Cranmer people in Notts barely know about him!<br />
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Outside are a large number of slate gravestones by good old Sparrow and Wood. They are as beautiful now as they were in the 1700s when they were carved. One family group shows Richard Fawkes died in 1721: his son Thomas, aged 26, was to follow him in 1722: a daughter, Elizabeth, also 26, and her brother Richard, just 22, both died in 1724. Nearby a small stone tells of two Fawkes infants who were buried in 1726 and 1727. The sadness stretches across the years.<br />
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There is a brass plague in the church informing us that Elizabeth Blaggers left money for the benefit of the poor and for the upkeep of her family graves. Her father's name was William Flower. Now I have no proof of any connection other than this surname but the "Belvoir Witches" from just down the road were also called Flower.<br />
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This is a terrible tale of a miscarriage of justice .... obviously, since we now understand there are no such thing as witches, but in the time of King James I people truely believed in witchcraft. It was the summer of 1612 when King James was visiting the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. Joan Flowers (a local herbal healer from Bottesford) and her two daughters were employed as extra staff. The women were not well liked and arguments soon broke out between them and other workers. When some items went missing the Flowers were dismissed. Unfortunately for them they didn't go quietly and a few unpleasant words and curses were swopped.<br />
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A sickness bug spread through the castle soon after the King's visit and one of the Duke's sons failed to fully recover from it. He died in September 1613.<br />
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It was 1619 when another sickness bug carried off the second son and Joan and her daughters were arrested for causing the deaths through witchcraft. Joan asked for Holy Communion to prove her innocence .... as surely an evil witch would be unable to take Communion. Tragically she choked on the bread and died! Her daughters didn't stand a chance after that. They were hanged at Lincoln.<br />
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Now that could be the end of the matter but for one small detail ... King James I brought a 'special companion' with him on that visit, George Villiers. Although George was very attractive he was not very wealthy. The death of the Duke's sons meant his daughter Katherine was the sole heir to the Rutland fortune. Guess who married Katherine in 1620! Had he witnessed the Flowers being dismissed then poisoned the Rutland male heir? Could he have returned to finish the job years later? We will never know.<br />
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Well, anyway ... back to Granby!!<br />
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The older properties are all well maintained but this has not always been the case ....1808 to 1827 the vicars all lived out of the village "due to the unfitness of the vicarage". Surely the beautiful old rectory across from the church must be a different building.<br />
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Just down the road is Sutton cum Granby.<br />
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The Domesday Book lists the Church of St Ethelburger as being in Sutton
but there is no sign of it today and some historians believe it never
was here .... the Ethelburger Priory (a place of pilgrimage for hundreds
of worshippers each year) was situated a short distance away near <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/langar.html">Langar</a> so it is thought there may have been a mistake.<br />
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There was a Methodist chapel here but it has been converted into a house. Obviously at one time there was a large number of Methodists in this area as Granby also had a chapel. It makes you wonder how the pubs stayed in business with such a small population!<br />
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In 1520 Sutton was owned by Sir John Savage of Cheshire. The Savages were an incredibly wealthy and influencial family from Chesire. It was a Sir John Savage who lead part of Henry Tudor's army at the Battle of Bosworth. A few years later his son, also named John Savage, played an important part in the Battle of Flodden Fields; a battle which cost him many close friends and relatives. Soon after that he and his eldest son became embroiled in a dispute with a member of the Pauncefote family. Swords were drawn and Pauncefote died. Sir John and his son were arrested and imprisoned in the Tower under sentence of death. After some months, and with the support of Cardinal Wolsey, the two men were released but they had to pay a heavy fine and they were exiled from their home in Cheshire. In order to pay the fine of 400 marks the Savages sold Sutton to Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. Sir John died seven year later never having returned to his beloved residence at Clifton.<br />
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Sutton also has a village pump in the middle of a village green:<br />
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And here is an usual sight for an English village:<br />
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Until 1879 a mill used to stand in the fields between Sutton and Granby (across the road from Grange Farm). It had been built on the site of a large moated house (which a Victorian historian described as a castle). We went looking for signs of either buildings but found only a few willow trees where the moat used to be. </div>
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Map of Granby: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Granby,+Nottingham,+Nottinghamshire+NG13/@52.9188465,-0.8859805,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879cc33bf20105f:0xea1203edbab60d6e">click here</a>. Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-8685860048818640302016-01-17T10:13:00.001-08:002021-04-09T11:05:56.784-07:00Wiverton Hall<div style="text-align: center;">
Obviously Wiverton Hall is not a village but the history of this place makes interesting reading. </div>
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The house we see today is built on the site of a much older property, a small village with a church. Early records show the Lords of the Manor took their name from the land: Gervase de Wiveton and his son Richard de Wiveton gave parcels of land away to ensure sufficient Estovers (a life supply of wood) for their families. Obviously this was a necessity at the time ... it gave you a house, fences, tools, firewood for warmth and cooking. In this way Wiveton passed to Sir William de Heriz. His daughter's marriage meant the land passed to the Brets. A couple of generations later Sir John Bret died childless so the estate passed to his sister Catherine. She was married to Sir John Caltoft who we met earlier at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/east-bridgford.html">East Bridgford</a>. Sir John Caltoft's daughter Alice married Sir William Chaworth, so this family inherited Wiverton on Sir John's death in 1352.<br />
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<a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/chaworth-sir-thomas-1459">Sir Thomas Chaworth</a> became a very wealthy young man (he was around his early 20s) when his father William died in 1398. When Alice died two years later he inherited again ... he now owned the manor of East Bridgford and the Lincolnshire villages of Allington, Thoresby, Timberland and Toynton. Alice had also been coheir to Lord Bassett of Drayton who had died childless in 1390. This passed to Thomas too. He would be the wealthiest man in the whole of Nottinghamshire when he died.<br />
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He was obviously well regarded. In June 1401 King Henry IV made Thomas a Knight of the Royal Body; two years later he attended a great council at Westminster and became Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (a position he would hold three times). Such men of influence at the time were not without enemies. A Lincolnshire land owner, <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/tailboys-sir-walter-1350-1417">Sir Walter Tailboys</a>, attempted to murder Sir Thomas in 1411 (Tailboys was a known violent trouble-maker). Thomas was imprisoned in the Tower of London for a short time .... this may have been political (Thomas supported the view that the ailing King Henry IV should abdicate in favour of his son) or it could have been as punishment for public order offences.<br />
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A second incarceration in the Tower in 1414 was far more serious. This time he had supported Sir John Oldcastle's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/lollards_01.shtml">lollard</a> views. It is firmly believed that Shakespeare's character Falstaff was based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Oldcastle">Sir John Oldcastle.</a> In real life Sir John did have a strong relationship with the young prince but he was eventually seen as a serious threat once the prince became King Henry V. Sir John's lollard beliefs demanded the clergy should not be concerned with wealth and position: Church wealth should be used for the poor and needy: religious leaders should not be involved in political life as this distracted them from religion; priests did not have the power to forgive sins so the idea of confession was wrong and all in all the Church needed to be totally reformed! This didn't go down well with high ranking Bishops. Lollard followers were viewed as heretics with some of them being burned at the stake. Sir Thomas Chaworth was imprisoned in chains in the Tower under sentence of death for a time but friends rallied and he gained a pardon.<br />
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By 1416 Thomas was married to his second wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury. This was a remarkably lucrative marriage. Aylesbury died two years later quickly followed by his son then his young grandson ... suddenly Isabel and her sister were coheirs to the fortune. Wiverton Hall benefitted greatly from this wealth: a house fit for royal visitors was built and a beautiful park.<br />
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Thomas lived to be over 80 years of age and died in 1459. His will covered land in Barnstone, Clifton, Colston Bassett, Cropwell
Bishop, Cropwell Butler, East Bridgford, Edwalton, Granby, Langar, Marnham, Shelford, Tithby and Whatton as well as Wiverton. He was buried next to his wife at Launde Priory. His will gave all the contents of the beautiful chapel at Wiverton, the altar hangings, devotional works and plate (which he had acquired from his elder daughter, Elizabeth, when she took holy orders in 1455 following the death of her husband, Lord John Scrope) to Launde Priory. Incidently, we came across the Scrope family at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/langar.html">Langar</a> so Elizabeth had stayed close to the family seat.</div>
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There are monuments to three generations of the Chaworth family in St
Andrew's Church at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/langar.html">Langar</a>. A wall monument to Sir George who died in
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It was in 1510 that the first Sir George took the decision to depopulate his parkland and give it over entirely to animal grazing so Wiverton village ceased to exist. While some historians claim it was a sensible economic decision as the village was in serious decline and only five families were moved, it would have been a devastating economic decision for those five families!<br />
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<br />The Civil War saw more changes to Wiverton Hall. Sir John Chaworth was a strong royalist and Wiverton became a fortified stronghold. Charles I wife Queen Henrietta stayed there in 1643 and Prince Rupert, the King's nephew and principle Royalist General, made Wiverton his base towards the end of the conflict. It was from Wiverton that Prince Rupert wrote to Parliament requesting safe passage for himself and his brother to enable them to leave England. Unfortunately this led to the destruction of the house ... once the Royalists left the Parliamentarian army arrived to raise the property to the ground. Only the gatehouse survived. (Prince Rupert's daughter, Ruperta, married Lieutenant General Emanuel Scrope Howe ..... he is shown kneeling at the feet of his parents on their tomb in St Andrew's Church, <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/langar.html">Langar</a>). <br />
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For the next 150 years the gatehouse was used as a farmhouse but it remained in the Chaworth family until Mary Chaworth married John Muster of Colwick in 1805. Now Mary is another interesting character ... she was adored by Lord Byron the poet. (I will save that story for another time!). Strange really as a previous Lord Byron had been the death of a Sir William Chaworth in a duel in 1765 (see<a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/east-bridgford.html"> East Bridgford</a>). <br />
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The present house, incorporating the gatehouse, was built in 1814. <br />
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During the 1920s and 1930s the Wiverton estate was let out to tenants but in 1938 John Neville Chaworth Muster sold it to the Crown. At the end of World War 2 it became the home of Major General Sir Miles Graham and his wife. Sir Graham was a real national hero! After Eton and Cambridge Graham served in the First World War where he was wounded twice. At the beginning of the Second World War he rejoined his regiment from the reserves as part of the administrative staff. By 1942 he was Montgomery's Chief Administrative Officer in charge of all the logistical strategies necessary for ensuring the British Army, as well as soldiers from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, Italy, Free France and India, were fully supplied and capable of winning the war! <br />
By the end of the conflict Graham had been awarded a KBE, a CB and an MC but tragically he had lost his 23 year old son (he was a navigator in 617 Dambuster Squadron ... his plane was shot down in 1944). <br />
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In August 1948 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein paid a visit to Wiverton Hall to see his old friend.<br />
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The Hall has recently been up for sale again. The price tag was £1.5 million. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939246/Wiverton-Hall-Nottingham-sale-1-5m.html">Click here</a> for details and a mini tour!<br />
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There are so many things to write about Langar that it is difficult to know where to start! I will let recent events decide .... Nottingham has become a UNESCO City of Literature so I will begin with a famous Langar resident ... Samuel Butler. Butler was born in 1835 at the Rectory in Langar to Rev Thomas Butler and his wife. Thomas was the son of Dr Samuel Butler who originally came from a tradesman's background but his intelligence and hard work enabled him to rise above this social position ... he studied at Rugby School then Cambridge and rose to become Headmaster of Shewsbury School then Bishop of Lichfield. His eldest son Thomas had an ambition to join the British Navy but Dr Samuel decided against this and pushed Thomas into the clergy where he had a very 'undistinguished' career!<br />
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Thomas, described as a "bullying father", seems to have taken his personal frustrations out on his own son. The young Samuel was educated at home and beaten quite frequently. He never had a close relationship with his father: in later life he wrote, "He never liked me, nor I him ..." Thomas had decided his son would follow him into the church and at the age of twelve, Samuel was sent to Shrewsbury School. His grandfather was no longer Head, Mr Benjamin Hall Kennedy now held that position. Kennedy ran a strict regime and Samuel didn't have a great time there either!<br />
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After qualifying with a First from St John's College, Cambridge, Samuel was expected to return home to obey his father's wishes. Instead he sailed off to New Zealand where he worked on a sheep farm for a few years. In his spare time he wrote the first draft of his most famous work, "<i>Erewhon</i>". The title is "No Where" backwards (yes, two letters have been transposed!). It was a satire on Victorian society. Aldous Huxley would later acknowledge the influence "<i>Erewhon</i>" had on his own novel "<i>Brave New World</i>".<br />
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Butler's second famous work, "<i>The Way of All Flesh</i>", was published after his death as it was semi-autobiographical and as such was not very complimentary to his father!<br />
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Butler died in London in 1902. George Bernard Shaw lamented the fact that Butler had not gained more appreciation during his lifetime. His name is still not widely know when compared with D H Lawrence or Sillitoe but in 1998 <i>"The Way of All Flesh"</i> was ranked in 12th place on the list of the Modern Library Top 100 best English - language Novels of the 20th Century. <br />
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Rev Thomas Butler may have been a bit of a harsh father but he was a power of good for his congregation. He not only rebuilt the church he also provided a school for the village. The building has recently been converted into a private house.<br />
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The Church of St Andrew is mainly 13th century but it was heavily restored in the 1860s by Rev, Butler. It has been nick-named The Cathedral of the Vale because it is a VERY large building for a village church: this is apparently because it was a place of pilgrimage in Saxon times.<br />
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In those days there was a castle at Langar and the Priory of Ethelburger was just down the road. According to Vatican records "great multitudes" of pilgrims would travel here to be blessed and receive forgiveness for their sins on holy feast days. Both the castle and the priory have long since gone and the village centre has moved .... plague decimated the place in 1665 so the survivors rebuilt nearby.<br />
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A second notable Reverend from the village was Edward Gregory who was a part time astronomer. In 1793 he discovered a comet Gregory-Méchain (C/1793 A1, 1792 II) which he recorded for five nights. It was observed by a number of astronomers at the time but Gregory saw it first.
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Langar Castle was replaced by <a href="http://www.langarhall.com/">Langar Hall</a> which sits right next door to the church.<br />
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These days the Hall is a beautiful award winning country hotel and restaurant (Food & Travel 'Best Rural Hotel Award' : 'Best Wedding Venue'; 'Best rural restaurant' ....). The Hall dates back to the middle of the 1660s when it was the home of the Tiptoft family. It passed by marriage to the influential Scrope family who are described as "Lords
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This one is Lord Thomas Scrope (10th Baron Scrope of Bolton) with his wife, Philadelphia Carey, and their devoted son, Emanuel, praying at their feet.<br />
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In the late 16th century Lord Thomas was Knight of the Shire for Cumberland and Warden of the English West March (The Scottish Borders). In 1596 he caused a major diplomatic incident when he was trying to recapture the outlaw Kinmont Willie Armstrong. The outlaw had previously been illegally arrested on a truce day and imprisoned in Carlisle Castle. Walter Scott (kinsman to the more famous Sir Walter Scott the author) was Warden of the West March on the Scottish side. Scott petitioned Scrope for Armstrong's release. Scrope was new to the post and being unsure what to do with his illegal prisoner he delayed replying. So, thinking diplomacy had failed, Scott took a party of men across the border, gained access to Carlisle Castle (possible through bribery as no casualties results from this raid), found Armstrong's cell and freed him. <br />
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Scrope "burnt the towns of Annan and Dumfries to the ground" in attempting to recapture his prisoner. Armstrong was not found but Scrope ended up with 200 prisoners. He ordered them to be stripped naked, chained together on leashes and marched back to Scotland. Obviously there were a few upset people and war between England and Scotland seemed imminent until Walter Scott gave himself up to the authorities. On being taken to London and shown to Queen Elizabeth I she asked him how had he dared to undertake a raid on an English castle.<br />
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"What is it that a man dare not do?" was his reply.<br />
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He must have impressed his audience .... "With ten thousand such men, our brother in Scotland might shake the firmest throne of Europe!"<br />
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The incident didn't interfere with the promotion prospects of either men. Scott would be created Lord Scott of Buccleuch in 1606. While Scrope was made a Knight of the Garter in 1599, the same year Shakespeare was writing<i> Henry V</i> in which an earlier Scrope, Lord Henry Scrope, is last seen being taken off stage to be beheaded. Lord Henry had been a firm favourite of the King Henry V until 1415 when Edmond Mortimer told the King there was a plot to take the throne. Scrope was apparently plotting to murder King Henry and replace him with ... Edmond Mortimer. Some historians believe Edmond was lucky because he got in first and accused Scrope who had in fact been collecting information about the plot in order to bring it to the King. Lord Henry Scrope was not only beheaded but had the added indignity of being dragged through Southampton streets from Watergate to North Gate before being executed. His head was then taken to York to be placed on a spike at the city gate. Can you imagine what sights used to greet travellers to large cities? Bits of dead people rotting away on town walls .... town planners today would be horrified!!<br />
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England's Civil War broke out when Lord Emanuel Scrope owned Langar Hall. The property stayed unscathed because Emanuel kept out of politics and avoided conflict. One morning in 1640 however a party of his men were confronted by Roundheads from Colston Bassett and killed. When Langar Hall had new drains laid in 1991 the workmen unearthed a number of skulls dating back to that period.<br />
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Emanuel married Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of Rutland. Elizabeth died childless ... Emanuel did not! He had five children by the housekeeper, Martha Jones. Poor Elizabeth!! She had to live in the same house as them all!<br />
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The illegitimate children inherited after Emanuel's death. The house passed to the Howe family when Emanuel's daughter Arabella married John Howe. The couple had nine children: four sons and five daughters. <br />
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Britain owes a great deal to John and Arabella's grandchildren. George Howe (1725 - 1758) was the son of Emanuel Scrope Howe, Arabella's fourth child. George was described as being the "best officer in the British Army" before he was killed in action! Before this he made major changes to the uniform to make his men more efficient in battle. He also trained his troops to march and how to fight effectively in woodlands. I can agree therefore that such innovations would make him a great officer.<br />
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His brother was Richard Howe (1726 - 1799) who began his Royal Navy career as a midshipman at the age of 14 then rose to the top job of Admiral of the Fleet. He was hardly ever at home as he protected Britain's interests in the Channel and in America .... he was in charge of a coastal blockade
during the American Wars of Independence. This was not a great success.
He claimed he did not have enough ships to be effective but others
believed he was a supporter of the colonists (he was a personal friend
of Benjamin Franklin). He enjoyed naval victories against the Spanish
and the French: he is particularly remembered for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_First_of_June">Glorious First of June</a> (1794) during the French Revolutionary Wars.<br />
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Like his brother he too introduced innovations to improve efficiency: he improved signalling methods between ships and, his most important change, was the way in which sea battles were conducted. The established strategy was to form a line of ships facing the enemy and blast them from a distance. Admiral Howe changed all that. He ordered his line of ships to sail at the enemy then turn sidways in order to rake and attack the sides of the ships up close. Once the British Navy adopted this approach Britania ruled the waves! In 1797 Lord Howe was awarded the coveted title of Knight of the Order of the Garter: he died of gout two years later and was buried at Langar (he has a monument in St Paul's Cathedral and a wall plaque at his old residence in Bath).<br />
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Arabella's third grandchild was General William Howe (1729 - 1814). He, like his brothers, was also a military man. William was Commander in Chief of the British Forces during the American War of Independence. So at one point in history these two brothers were in command of the British Army and the Royal Navy and they both came from Langar!<br />
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One of the expected delights of visiting this village was a visit to the pub. The <a href="http://www.unicornshead.co.uk/">Unicorn's Head</a> was built in 1717. It is a real village pub selling good beer in cheerful surroundings, with a decent menu for food and a nice garden for kids. Originally it was called The Feathers and was a coaching inn with its own brew house. Well only the chimney survived of the brew house, the stables no longer hold horses and the name was changed after the death of Admiral Howe (the unicorn's head is a feature of the Howe's coat of arms).<br />
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We have mentioned the decline in the number of public houses in the area before so you can imagine our dismay to find ....<br />
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... the pub was shut! Firecrews were called out on 1st September at 6am when a fire took hold of the building. Work is underway and it should be open for business again in the new year ... plenty of time before its 300 year anniversary in 2017.<br />
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During the Second World War Langar had a large airbase. Planes still take off from here; they belong to the <a href="http://www.skydivelangar.co.uk/default.aspx?id=ee14ed46-5d8c-49aa-9d92-ecbedfdc85d6">Langar Parachute School</a> where they will train you for your first jump for only £230. Wandering round the wildflower farm you regularly see .... and hear (it is surprising how far shouts of delight/fear can travel!) .... groups of parachutists floating to earth. <br />
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There is a memorial garden next to the base to commemorate the airman who gave their lives in the war.<br />
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So it is not just Langar Hall (and in better times The Unicorn) bringing affluence to the village. There are a number of thriving businesses on or near to the old airbase ....<a href="https://www.deere.co.uk/en_GB/regional_home.page"> John Deere</a> Agricultural Machinery has a large headquarters here: Mainline Mouldings sells framing equipment from a new picture gallery here; The Limes is a listed farm building: where we found the yard filled with people buying Christmas trees.<br />
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<a href="http://www.langarnearthehall.co.uk/another-outdoorsy-weekend/">Bottom House Farm</a> (also listed) welcomes visitors to their self catering cottage which looks delightful from the road! Alternatively, B&B accommodation can be found at<a href="http://www.littlelangarlodge.com/"> Little Langar Lodge</a>. Then there is the beautiful <a href="http://www.naturescape.co.uk/acatalog/index.html">Naturescape</a>
...... fields of wild flowers full of bees and butterflies and a
dragonfly pond, a tea room with seats in the sunny garden and a nursery
area where you can purchase plants or seeds. An absolute delight.<br />
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Finally this beautiful church window is worth a mention. It is dedicated to Thomas Bayley and Annie Mary Bradley Bayley who lived at Langar Hall in the late 19th century. The window was commissioned by their son, Lt. Col. Sir Henry Dennis Readett Bayley who we came across before as he ended his days at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/elton-on-hill.html">Elton-on-the-Hill</a>.<br />
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Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-66751514624360194682015-12-10T15:09:00.003-08:002015-12-10T15:15:53.663-08:00Elton-on-the-Hill<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We visited Elton the morning after a storm had passed through Nottinghamshire. Strong winds had scattered broken branches around the graveyard of the village church and a man with a wheelbarrow was busy clearing it up. He smiled at us and nodded a greeting. I asked, "Do you live in the village?"<br />
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"Yes, we run the B&B just along the road there."<br />
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Now I had read a bit about the village before our visit so this comment was enough of a clue for my next question, "Did you used to be a professional footballer?"<br />
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His smile widened to a grin, "Yes, in a previous life!"<br />
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"Are you <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Masson">Don Masson</a>, by any chance?"<br />
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I had read he was a resident of the village but I didn't expect to meet the man himself within a couple of minutes of parking the car! I found myself shaking hands with a Scottish International footballer and midfielder for Notts County and QPR. He now runs <a href="http://www.thegrangebedandbreakfastnotts.co.uk/index.html#intro">The Grange B&B</a> with his wife, Brenda.<br />
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Their beautiful old farmhouse dates back to 1725. Set in a large mature garden with views over open country side this is a wonderful place for a quiet, peaceful break .... the anonymous Mitchelin inspector obviously agreed as the Massons have recently been informed that The Grange has been included in the 2016 Mitchelin Guide. According to guest reviews it is richly deserved.<br />
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While the last of the tree branches were carted away we had a look around the Church of St Michael and All Angels. What a great name ... sounds like a band!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Church of St Michael and All Angels</i></td></tr>
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Parts of this church date back to the 12th century but there was a church here before the Norman Conquest. According to the Domesday Book Elton belonged to Ralph, a vassal of Roger de Busli. We came across Roger as owner of East Bridgford. He had arrived in England with William the Conqueror and had been richly rewarded after the battles. He had so much land in fact that in 1088 he was able to grant a substantial part of it to a new priory at Blyth. Elton formed part of that grant.<br />
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King Henry VIII dissolved Blyth Priory in 1536 and the church, together with the village, passed to the Yorke family.<br />
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A huge key took us into a neat interior. Gleaming white walls and lots of wood all illuminated by electric light ... but it's not difficult to imagine the candles that would once have been used in the old cast iron fittings. What<b> is</b> difficult to imagine is what it must have looked like in 1584 when, according to the church records, John Wright, a clerk of the church, was excommunicated <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">‘for
not kepinge the church clean and doinge his duty as he ought to do’.</span> <span style="color: black;">Seems
a bit severe to me! Excommunicated for not dusting? The place must
have been in a real state!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: black;">In the 1650s England was filled with religious tensions. Non attendance at church was noted. In 1658 an Elton farmer got on the wrong side of yet another authoritarian vicar, a Rev. Williamson. The farmer, William Clayter, was a Quaker. As such he not only didn't attend church, he also refused to pay the vicar the tithe on his corn and cattle. Clayter was eventually called to appear before the Exchequer in London where he was thrown in gaol for several years! According to fellow Quakers in the area Rev Williamson "made spoil of his goods and carried away his corn." Clayter was released but he had to pay the vicar £20 and on returning home his remaining goods and cattle were seized. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">A 1676 census showed five non-papal dissenters living in the village ... Alice and Susan Clator were reprimanded for not attending church for over a month around that time. Given the similarity in name they were probably related to William. </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coats of Arms from inside the church</i></td></tr>
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In 1708 Rev. William Selby had been the church rector for over twenty years when he was charged with blasphemy. He had been asking a few unsettling questions for a man in his position. "Was God Almighty a drone? If not what was he doing before he made the Earth?" didn't go down too well with his parishioners.<br />
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A year later Bingham Court records show John Trinbury was brought before the bench on a charge of assaulting the vicar. Selby was physically attacked "in a scandalous manner being called a knave, a rascal and a paultry scrub and having his clothes pulled off his back" by a member of his flock.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Coats of Arms from inside the church</i></td></tr>
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Apparently the Reverend had been so inebriated during a burial service
he had fallen asleep in the middle of the prayers for the dead and had
to be woken up by the Parish Clerk. Once the mourners had reached the
grave side and the body was being lowered into the ground the Reverend
muttered "God help thee poor Nell" then had to be helped home by the
Clerk. <br />
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I feel quite sorry for this vicar. The man was obviously in the wrong job! <br />
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I also have sympathy for the Parish Clerk who, in 1780, was digging a grave in the churchyard when he unearthed 200 silver coins dating back to the time of Henry II (1133 - 1189). So why do I feel sympathy for him?<br />
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Because he couldn't DO anything with his find. He decided to take them to Mrs Collin Launder the Lady of the Manor. She was kind enough to give him £10 for his honesty but kept the coins for herself. Wonder what the real value would have been.<br />
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The present day church is obviously well cared for and kept in good order. Repairs were carried out in the 1930s. The pews were given to the church in 1949 by Mr W Player (of Player Tobacco) who lived at Whatton Manor while the wood panelling was gifted by a local solicitor, Mr Noel Parr who lived in the Old Rectory until 1957.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Old Rectory</i></td></tr>
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The Baron Ward cooking apple was raised by Samuel Bradley in the Elton Manor gardens in 1850. It is now on the list of <a href="http://heritageandrarefruits.weebly.com/lost-apples.html">lost heritage fruit</a>. Bradley also created two varieties of strawberries both of which are still popular: The Sir Joseph Paxton (named after the famous horticulturalist from Chatsworth) and the Dr. Hogg. Bradley worked at Elton while it was owned by William Fletcher Norton Norton Esq, the illegitimate son of the Second Lord Grantley. The property passed to his nephew when Norton died in 1865. At the beginning of the 20th century the 1075 acre estate was purchased by Lord Grantley for £27,000. He never lived there and apparently failed to recognise the place as belonging to himself when he passed it one day on the train! Such wealth!<br />
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The next owner was Walter Black.<br />
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By 1921 the manor was owned by Lt. Col. Sir Henry Dennis Readett-Bayley
(1878–1940) ... I love these names! His parents had lived at Langar
Hall. He had inherited an enormous fortune from mining and already
owned a large estate in Yorkshire. During the First World War he created the Dennis Bayley Fund to provide motorised ambulances: he was knighted for his benevolence. He died in 1940 and the property passed to Mr Parr.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Listed gravestone of Margaret Collin Launder ... Lady of the Manor</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Grade II listed Gazebo</i></td></tr>
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Mr Parr lived in the Old Rectory but he also owned Elston Manor which was described as "a large,
plain, early 19th-century parapeted manor house". Mr Parr had it
demolished. We were told you could still see the outline of the
foundations but we couldn't have been looking in the right place! The
land has been put to good use though as a large, beautiful early 21st
century modern house now stands in the grounds. <br />
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Bricks from the old house were used to build a wall either side of the imposing gates that still stand at the entrance to the grounds. The road you can see beyond the gates used to be the main road to Granby until it was blocked off and the route diverted.This Grade II listed gazebo (photo on right) dates back to the late 1700s and stands in the old manor grounds.<br />
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Next to the wall is The Lodge .....<br />
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.... a 19th century building that was once the village Post Office.<br />
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Old farm houses and barns have been beautifully converted into desirable homes with enviable views across the Vale of Bevoir. The only down side to this village is the fact that the A52 cuts straight through it.<br />
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The pub has become a very good Indian restaurant/bar. It was called Little India but on the day we visited we noticed signs saying it would soon be opening under new management so no idea what it is like now.<br />
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This side of the A52 is the main road to the train station. The timetable is very limited and the station itself has been demolished ... which is a shame as it was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chambers_Hine">Thomas Chambers Hine</a>.<br />
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The village could soon be expanding because a planning application has been submitted for ten holiday cottages, five camping pods, a fourth fishing lake and extra car parking at<a href="http://www.jansoncoarsefishery.co.uk/"> Janson Course Fishery.</a><br />
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Map of Elton: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Elton-on-the-Hill,+Nottinghamshire+NG13/@52.9401067,-0.8540932,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4879cc6582b147e7:0x21e3b3a544fe546f">click here</a>.Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-49844937226238674522015-11-09T13:01:00.009-08:002021-06-15T01:17:18.798-07:00East Bridgford<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></i><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This charming ancient village sits on a hill next to the banks of the River Trent. Our modern road systems skirt round the village now but in times passed, when river transport was more popular, this would have been one of the main transport arteries for the local area. </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://theroyaloakeb.co.uk/">The Royal Oak</a> is at the heart of the village. It has a warm and friendly atmosphere: serves good, locally sourced food at affordable prices with a selection of real ales and adds to the community spirit of the village by running a number of clubs .... football, darts, pool and skittles.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">That community spirit reveals itself every year with the popular <a href="http://www.eastbridgford.org/villageshow/index.html">Village Show</a>. People flock to Butt Field where the day is filled with marching bands, fancy dress competitions, falconry shows, acrobatic displays, dog shows, a </span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">tug-of-war and rodeo sheep! Plant stalls, book stalls, toy stalls, food stalls .... burger vans, ice cream vans .... animal pens and interesting old tractors fill the rest of the field .... they even get aeroplanes to fly over ......but the part people are really interested in is inside the marque where the flower and vegetable judges award the prizes. The show has been going for more than 150 years! This place really is a cross between the village near 'Downton Abbey' and 'Larkrise to Candleford'! This year (2015) disaster struck when the sports pavilion burnt down on the eve of the event but it wasn't cancelled ... in true British fashion the show went on just an hour later than advertised!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">East Bridgford gets a mention in the Domesday Book but it was here much further back than that. The Roman town of Margidunum was just down the road on the Fosse Way (now the A46) and the main road that connects the A46 with Gunthorpe Bridge is called Bridgford Street. This road bypasses the village to the south west but from Roman times, and for many generations after, the track came up the present road then followed what is now a footpath towards the river. Today narrow boats and cruisers are moored up where once the banks were filled with cargo boats ... the inhabitants of Margidunum made full use of this supply route and East Bridgford residents still relied on it for heavy goods like coal until quite recent times.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Next to the wharf are the remains of the iron toll bridge that spanned the river before Gunthorpe Bridge was built. The Toll House is on the Gunthorpe side of the water.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Margidunum was first excavated between 1910 and 1936 by Felix
Oswald. His dedication to the site was impressive as he was working
almost singlehandedly. A farmer refused to allow him access to part of
the area so a friend kindly bought the field to allow Oswald to
continue. He discovered buildings, wells, bronze ornaments and jewellery, an iron sword, keys, coins and thousands of pots.
When the pottery was in pieces he stuck it back together again as far as
he could. He recorded over 20,000 Roman potters' stamps which he
catalogued in alphabetical order - it became so extensive publishers
refused to print it so he set to work and printed it himself. Nowadays we
would just use a computer to log it alphabetically and press print ....
Oswald was working by hand then and every single letter had to be placed into a
printing press! Such patience and determination!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> When William the Conqueror arrived in England he gave East Bridgford to
Roger de Busli (along with 85 other manors in Nottinghamshire and 46 in
Yorkshire .... not to mention the others in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and
Leicestershire ... oh and one in Devon!). Roger's wife was a favourite
of the Queen and Roger had accompanied King William from the beginning
of the Conquest so he was richly rewarded. Unfortunately, Roger's only
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various times Blyth Priory, the Earl of Chesterfield and the wealthy
Henry de Lacy all held some interest in the village but Thoroton (in <i>'The History of Nottinghamshire') </i>has
the Biset family as the next definite owners. It was passed down
through birth and marriages over the years until 1317 when John
Biset's two daughters inherited so the land was divided between their
sons: Thomas de Multon and Philip de Caltoft. Thomas's share passed to
the Deyncourt family then it was given to Magdalen College Oxford.
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the North aisle of the village church there is a tomb recess with the Babington arms carved onto a stone shield. The historian Robert Thoroton visiting in 1677 noted the name of John Babington who died in 1409 inscribed on an alabaster slab but this has been replaced with a rather battered effigy of a knight. His legs are crossed signifying he crossed the sea to take part in a Crusade. The effigy was discovered in the garden of East Bridgford Hall and is thought to depict Sir John Caltoft.</span><br />
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defending the royalist fort at Trent Bridge. A second brother, Thomas, was in Rowland's
company and was killed in action in 1643. Thomas was buried in East
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<br /><div style="text-align: center;">Here is a <a href="http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/east-bridgford/hincumb.php" target="_blank">link to the Incumbent Board</a> to check you have the right name ... he was once famous for a royal duty ....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Anna Key “QUE AQUIS IMMERSA ET INVENTA”(immersed in water and found out!) This is surely a reference to a trial by water for a woman suspected of witchcraft. A further note in the records states "This entry du Boulay Hill states is 'cancelled'. ”</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">1662 to 1702 Reverend Henry Smith was rector of East Bridgford while Patricius Viscount Chaworth was the Patron. In 1653 Chaworth had married Lady Grace Manners, daughter of the 8th Earl of Rutland. The marriage did not last.</span><br />
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attending a meeting of the Nottinghamshire Club. It sounds rather
official but it was a social gathering for a group of wealthy young men
( the Hon. Thomas Willoughby - of Wollaton Hall - Frederick Montagu,
Francis Molyneux, Esqrs., Lord Byron, William Chaworth and Charles
Mellish, junior, Esq. were amongst those present .... we have come
across some of these names before). They met in the Star and Garter,
Pall Mall, London. It was an excuse to eat, drink and gamble
at a popular gentlemen's club! The evening was progressing in the usual
way until a discussion concerning the management of game birds began.
Mr Chaworth insisted landowners needed to deal with poachers most
severely while Lord Byron (Great Uncle of the famous poet) believed you
could leave game stock to look after itself. The argument became a
little heated when Mr Chaworth told Lord Byron he wouldn't have any game
left on his estate if Mr Chaworth and Byron's other neighbour, Sir
Charles Sedley, didn't do all the work for him. Byron enquired where
Sir Sedley's lands were to which Mr Chaworth replied, "If you want
information as to Sir Charles Sedley's manors, he lives at Mr. Cooper's,
in Dean Street, and, I doubt not, will be ready to give you
satisfaction; and, as to myself, your Lordship knows where to find me,
in Berkeley Row."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"Mad, bad and dangerous to know" described Byron the poet but his Great Uncle obviously has the same character traits. He had been challenged in public and could not let it pass. When the bill was paid Mr Chaworth left but Lord Byron followed. A servant was asked to show them to a private room. It was dark, being lit by only one candle. A few minutes later the servant was instructed to send for a surgeon to attend to Mr Chaworth's stab wound. Chaworth died the next day.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span>
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Byron was taken to the Tower and sent to trial on 16th April 1765. He
was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder but claimed the
benefit of an Edward VI Statute that gave peers the privilege of being
acquitted of a felony for which a commoner might be found guilty! He was
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We have already mentioned a branch of the Babington family lived in East Bridgford for a time. Their property passed to Lord Sheffield who sold it to Mr John Hacker in 1590. The present house on the site was built in 1690 but the Hacker family lived here for generations.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Quite a famous guest stayed at the Old Hall during the 1650s. Gilbert Sheldon (warden of All Souls, Oxford) took up residence when the Parliamentarians ejected him from his living in Oxford. Sheldon had been a close friend of King Charles I and after the Reformation would become Archbishop of Canterbury. He never married but Samuel Pepes recorded in his diary that Gilbert "do keep a wench, and that he is a very wencher as can be!" He must have found East Bridgford very quiet after Oxford ..... but what do I know!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Today East Bridgford is a very popular place to live. Lots of the lovely old houses are still here and the old labourers' cottages have all been modernised and don't stay on the market for long. Even the old dovecote and the two old mills have been converted into prestigeous family homes.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">There were two mills: one at each end of the village. According to old maps Kneeton Hill Mill is the oldest built in the late 1700s - it was four storey tower with four sails. In 1841 another two stories were added and the new building had six sails. This was its heyday ... it ceased working in 1891.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The second mill belonged to the Stoke family. Built in 1828, this is located on Millgate near to the church. <a href="http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/EastBridgford/White1853.html"> <i>Whites' Directory</i></a> of 1858 lists Henry Stokes as the miller and shopkeeper. The mill had a six storey tower and four double-shuttered sails. There is a photograph of it on Main Street dated 1900. It continued working until 1912. The sails were struck by lightning in 1928 and it became a house in the 1960s.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> The Directory also lists wheelwrights, harness makers, florists, seedsmen, bricklayers, joiners, teachers, framework knitters, surgeons, a police officer, blacksmiths, butchers, bakers and pub landlords. Three carriers operated services to Nottingham, nine shoemakers were on the list, eight dressmakers and eight gentlemen. By far the longest list was farmers: 23 were listed. It makes me imagine smartly dressed Victorians going about their daily affairs on Main Street and all knowing each other's names and business!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Beautiful individual homes have been created by converting old buildings. The Malthouse was originally used for malting until the 1890s when it became a pea packing factory; in 1959 Telcan took over (they invented a video cassette); by 1963 workers were producing laboratory equipment in there until the 80s when it was converted into housing.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The old cottages and the larger properties have been updated and well maintained. The residents take a great pride in their village.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">It was lovely to walk down a residential road and find the old village horse trough ....</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">.... a few minutes later we were amused to find a horse with a great moustache!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"East Bridgford is the twenty-second village we have visited. The previous twenty-one held just six pubs between them; East Bridgford has two, thereby increasing the number of pubs by thirty-three percent. It is a sad reflection of the current times that so many pubs have, and are continuing to disappear. In our brief travels around the south-eastern corner of Notts. we have encountered at least five pubs that have closed their doors forever during the last few years: The Royal Oak in Screveton; The Old Greyhound in Aslockton; The Griffon's Head in Whaton; The Pauncefote Arms in East Stoke and The Red House or Lodge in Screveton. East Bridgford is a large village and that probably accounts for the fact that it can support two pubs. Let's hope it can continue to do so.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Reindeer on Kneeton Road has taken its name from the reigns used to control deer as they pulled a sledge but why I don't know. It is a late eighteenth century boozer but it has had numerous makeovers since. The most recent one was a couple of years ago when the new owners made it rather minimalistic in order to attract a younger clientelle."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Would you credit it? I wrote this opening paragraph in the morning then grabbed my camera bag and set off to East Bridgford to photograph the Reindeer...and it's closed...permanently. The owners have sold it for redevelopment. Another one bites the dust! That's now six pubs permanently closed and seven still standing. Roughly 50-50. Shocking!</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span><br /></div>Notts Villageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00269850242384360917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3160641596110470120.post-69007157787160465832015-10-27T15:45:00.000-07:002015-10-30T12:51:24.650-07:00Kneeton<br />
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Well, I must say Kneeton came as a bit of a surprise. I had never been before but for some strange reason I had a mental image of a tiny place ... just five or six houses at the end of a country lane: I wasn't expecting to find such a lovely place with an old school house, church, beautiful old rectory, farm houses and large residental properties. There are ten listed buildings in the village (including the cottages above) as well as a number of listed slate grave stones.<br />
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Here is another listed structure: a mid 18th century barn .... <br />
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Domesday records Kneeton under the name of <i>Cheniueton.</i> It has been suggested that this derives from the name of the Saxon gentlewoman who owned the area at the time: her name was <i>Chengifu</i> plus the Saxon word for farm which is <i>ton. </i>Another suggestion for the meaning of the name is<i> "settlement of the servants" ... </i>well, everyone in the village would have worked for her ...they needed to know their place! <i> </i><br />
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Chengifu
was a Christian and built the church next to her house. By Norman
times the patronage of the church had passed to Welbeck Abbey and the
Abbey of Neubo (at Sedgebrook). After Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries it was given to
the Molyneux family (also connected to <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Hawton">Hawton</a>), then the Earls of
Carnarvon, before passing to the Neale family.<br />
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The Grade II listed Church of St Helen's sits in the centre of the village. In the Domesday Book it is listed as a moiety or "half a church". The present building has elements from the 14th and 15th century but most of it is from the 1879-80 restoration and rebuild by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_Christian">Ewan Christian</a>, who also restored Southwell Minster. The work was paid for by the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Herbert,_4th_Earl_of_Carnarvon"> 4th Earl of Carnarvon.</a><br />
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Now here is a fascinating man. Born in 1866 his full name was Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, also known as Lord
Porchester. He was a Conservative MP and Member of the Privy Council. His nickname was Twitters on account of his nervous twitches but he was far from being a figure of fun. He would have been highly regarded here not only for his contributions to the church but also for setting up the village school. Even today there is a Carnavon Primary School in nearby Bingham named after his family. Unfortunately he was not all good ... he resigned his Government post in protest when Benjamin Disraeli's Reform Bill was giving the vote to the working classes! Even worse than that, according to Wikipedia, his actions caused the Boer War! He believed that the continued existence of independent African states in South Africa
posed an ever-present threat of a "general and simultaneous rising of
Kaffirdom against white civilization". He attempted to impose the same system of rule over South Africa that he had set up for Canada. Unfortunately the South African's had other ideas ... he didn't listen!<br />
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Incidently, the Herbert country seat is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highclere_Castle">Highclere Castle</a>, location of the hugely popular<i> Downton Abbey. </i><br />
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<i> </i>Henry Howard's son was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert,_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon">George Edward Herbert</a> who was the chief financial backer for Howard Carter when Tutankhamun's treasure was found.<br />
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Inside the church are a number of memorial stones dedicated to the Story
family who had connections here and at East Stoke. John Story was
brother in law to Dr Robert Thoroton of <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/car-colston.html">Car Colston</a>, who wrote 'The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire' [1677].<br />
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The windows are mainly plain glass with the exception of this one by <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/art/stainedglass/heaton/index.html">Heaton, Butler and Bayne</a> .... we came across their work at <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Whatton-in-the-Vale">Whatton </a>... and you can see some more in Westminster Abbey! It is dedicated to the memory of John and Charlotte Neale. <br />
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Just inside the door is a Poor Box made from an old hollowed out tree trunk .... it dates back to the 15th century. Nearby is a "completely plain, large medieval font" [Pevsner<i> Nottinghamshire</i> 1951] He wasn't very impressed by the place when he visited - "The best thing about the church is the view down to the Trent valley." I think that is a bit mean but the view is impressive.<br />
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After looking at the four gargoyles on the church tower we went in search of the collection of listed slate grave stones in the churchyard ....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Slate headstone by Wood of Bingham</i></td></tr>
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As you can see these two are by Wood of Bingham ... a very skilled engraver ... <a href="http://nottsvillages.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Screveton">we have met him before too. </a><br />
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We wandered off down the lane past the 18th century farmhouse towards the beautiful Old Vicarage.<br />
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The lane stops here so we went back ... <br />
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.... passed the horses and the farm buildings, passed the site of Kneeton Hall which was demolished in 1781 ....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Street view</i></td></tr>
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... passed the old school building and up to the cross roads. Here the cottages are beautifully decorated with flower baskets on the walls but photographing them was difficult because of the parked cars. Round the corner was a very old building ...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Street view</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Street view</i></td></tr>
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... and a little further still we walked passed the original village well. It was a typical fairy story well with a tiled roof ... or it WAS until the milkman reversed into it and damaged the side!<br />
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The village noticeboard informed us that the Nottinghamshire Bat Group had found two rare species in the area: Barbastelle and Nathusius pipistrelle bats. They will be going into hiberation about now so we will have to return next year.<br />
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