North Collingham, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Parish History
North Collingham All Saints in Low Street Collingham is one of two Anglican churches in Collingham.

The church dates from the 12th century and has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage British listed building

COLLINGHAM, NORTH (All Saints),a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Newark, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 5 miles (N. N. E.) from Newark; containing 911 inhabitants. This place is situated a mile from the river Trent, and on the Midland railway; the surface is level, and generally well wooded. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £8. 14. 2.; net income, £92; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is partly of the early English style; the tower, aisles, porches, and clerestory were added in the 15th century. The Particular Baptists have a place of worship; and a school is supported by an endowment in land, the rent of which is £39 per annum. There are considerable remains of the village cross, a plain and solid structure, apparently an erection of the 14th century

From: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 663-668. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50890 Date accessed: 15 August 2011.

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Poor Law Unions
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