Walesby, Nottinghamshire

Historical Description

Walesby, a parish, with a village, in Notts, 4 miles W of Tuxford station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Newark; money order and telegraph office, Ollerton. Acreage, 1474; population of the civil parish, 274; of the ecclesiastical, 318. The manor belongs to Lord Savile. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £149 with residence. Patron, Lord Savile. The church is ancient, consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an embattled western tower, and was restored during 1884-87. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a village library.

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.

Church Records

The Registers of Walesby, in the County of Nottingham is available to purchase on CD-ROM. It contains Baptisms from 1580-1792, Marriages from 1594-1753, and Burials from 1585-1791.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Walesby from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walesby (St. Edmund))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Walesby 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.