Shelford, Nottinghamshire

Historical Description

Shelford, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts. The village stands near the river Trent, 2 miles from Burton Joyce station on the M.R., and 3½ WNW of Bingham, and has a post office under Nottingham; money order and telegraph office, Radcliffe-on-Trent. The township contains also Newton hamlet. Acreage, 3126 of land and 67 of water; population, 389. The parish contains also the township of Saxondale, and comprises 3877 acres; population, 474. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Carnarvon. An Austin priory was founded here, in the time of Henry IL, by Ralph de Hanselyn. and went at the Dissolution to the Stanhopes. The living is a vicarage, with Newton and Saxondale annexed, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £250 with residence. The church is in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and embattled tower, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Shelford from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shelford (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Shelford are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Nottinghamshire newspapers online:

• Nottingham Evening Post
• Nottinghamshire Guardian
• Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties
• Nottingham Gazette, and Political, Literary, Agricultural & Commercial Register for the Midland Counties

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Nottinghamshire 1569 & 1614 is available on the Heraldry page.