Bunny, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Bunny, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts, 3 miles SW of Plumtree railway station, and 6½ S of Nottingham, which is the post town. Acreage of the township, 2137; population, 239; of the civil and ecclesiastical parish, with Bradmore, 483. Bunny Park was the seat of the erudite and eccentric Sir T. Parkyns, and passed to Lord Rancliffe. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bradmore, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £327 with residence. The church is partly Decorated English, and has a crocketed spire. There is an endowed school and some charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bunny St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Basford | |
Wapentake | Rushcliffe |
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 Bunny from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bunny (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bunny 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.