Gedling, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Gedling, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts. The township lies on an affluent of the river Trent, adjacent,. to the Nottingham and Lincoln railway, with a station on the G.N.R. 3½ miles NE by E of Nottingham. It has a post office under Nottingham, with telegraph office at the railway station; money order office, Carlton. The parish contains also the townships of Stoke Bardolph and Carlton. Area of township, 1918 acres; population, 526; of ecclesiastical parish, 1007. A small portion of the township of Carlton is included in the county borough of Nottingham. Gedling. Lodge is the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon. Gedling House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross yearly value, £1075 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Carnarvon. The church is a fine edifice with tower and spire, and there are several 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 | Gedling All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Basford | |
Wapentake | Thurgarton |
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 Gedling from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Gedling (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Gedling 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.