Bunny with Bradmore, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Bunny St Mary the Virgin is known as "the Cathedral of the Wolds". For history of the church see the village website Bunny Village

The 14th century church restored in 1890-1891 and 1911 has been designated a grade I listed building by English Heritage British listed building

For history of Bunny Hall and the Wrestling Baronet Sir Thomas Parkyns see Bunny Wikipedia

BUNNY (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Basford, N. division of the wapentake of Rushcliffe, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 7½ miles (S.) from Nottingham; containing 360 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from London to Nottingham, through Loughborough; and comprises by computation 2000 acres. Bunny Park, the seat of Lord Rancliffe, to the east of the village, is an ancient mansion of brick ornamented with stone, with a massive gateway entrance. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the living of Bradmore, valued in the king's books at £6. 14.; net income, £425; patron, the Rev. J. R. W. Boyer. The tithes were partly commuted for land in 1797; the glebe now contains about 227 acres. The church is a spacious and well-built edifice, partly in the decorated and partly in the later English style, with a tower surmounted by a crocketed spire; and contains several monuments to the family of Parkyns, who became proprietors of the united parishes, by purchase, in the reign of Elizabeth. A school, erected in 1700, has an endowment in land producing £60 per annum, the gift of Lady Parkyns, who also founded an almshouse for four widows, and endowed it with £16 per annum, augmented with £5 annually by her husband, Sir Thomas Parkyns. The same lady assigned an annuity of £30 for apprenticing poor boys.

From: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 431-437. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50843 Date accessed: 15 August 2011.

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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Basford Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

Probate records
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