Calverton, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Calverton St Wilfrid is an Ancient Parish which includes Salterford within its boundaries.

The church of st Wilfrid dates from the 13th century with subsequent rebuilding and restoration in 1881 and has been designated asa grade II* listed building by English Heritage British listed building

CALVERTON (St. Wilfrid), a parish, in the union of Basford, S. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton and of the county of Nottingham, 7 miles (N. N. E.) from Nottingham; containing 1339 inhabitants. The parish is separated from that of Oxton by a small stream called Dover beck, which rises in the forest of Sherwood, and runs in a south-eastern direction into the Trent; it comprises by measurement 3300 acres, whereof twothirds are arable, and the rest pasture and woodland. The chief manufactures are those of stockings and lace, which afford employment to about 600 persons. The village is of considerable extent, and situated in a picturesque valley. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £4, and in the alternate patronage of the Archbishop of York and the Prebendary of Oxton in the Collegiate Church of Southwell; net income, £127: the tithes were commuted for 203 acres of land, under an inclosure act passed in 1779. The church, erected in 1774, is a neat and substantial edifice with a tower. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans, and for a sect peculiar to the parish, founded in the latter part of the last century, by John Roe. A school is endowed with £6 per annum; and £40 per annum, a house and garden, and four tons of coal, are also allowed by the trustees of Mr. Jonathan Labray's hospital.

From: Lewis, Samuel A. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 474-479. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50853 Date accessed: 15 August 2011.

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Civil Registration
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Basford Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

Probate records
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