Skegby, Nottinghamshire Genealogy

England Nottinghamshire

Parish History
Skegby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire, created in 1771 from chapelry in Mansfield St Peter and St Paul, Nottinghamshire Ancient Parish.

SKEGBY, a parish, in the union of Mansfield, N. division of the wapentake of Broxtow and of the county of Nottingham, 3 miles (W.) from Mansfield; containing 775 inhabitants. It comprises 1425 acres, of which 50 are plantation, and the remainder arable and pasture. The substratum contains coal, of which some mines are in operation, and limestone, which is quarried for burning into lime. The Skegby lime, recently discovered, is equal to cement for the erection of bridges, constructing pit-works, lining water-cisterns, &amp;c.; it was used for the bridges, tunnels, &amp;c, of the North Midland railway. John Dodsley, Esq., lord of the manor, resides at the Hall, and occasionally holds a court. The village is pleasantly situated on the opposite acclivities of a deep valley, near the source of the river Meden; the inhabitants are partly employed in frame-work knitting. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £78; patron and impropriator, the Duke of Portland, as lessee under the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. The church is a small stone edifice with a tower, on an eminence some distance from the village; it contains monuments to the Lindley family. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. A Sunday school has been established.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 110-113. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51279 Date accessed: 18 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Poor Law Unions
Mansfield Poor Law Union, Nottinghamshire

Probate records
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