Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Edwinstowe, a village, a township, and an extensive parish in Notts. The village stands on the river Maun, 2 miles WSW of OUerton, and 7 NE of Mansfield station on the M.R., and has a post and money order office under Newark; telegraph office, Ollerton. The township includes the village. Acreage, 6052; population of the township, 944; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Carburton and Perle-thorpe, 1683. The parish contains the townships of Clipstone, Bndby, and Carburton, and includes the northern part of Sherwood Forest. Edwinstowe Hall and Cockglode are chief residences. Thoresby Hall, the seat of Earl Manvers, is also actually in Edwinstowe proper. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Carburton and Perlethorpe, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £443 with residence. Patron, Earl Manvers. The church has an octagonal spire, and is good. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, four almshouses, a village library, and charities worth about £180.
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 | Edwinstowe St. Mary | |
Poor Law union | Southwell | |
Wapentake | Bassetlaw |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Edwinstowe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Edwinstowe (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Edwinstowe 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.