Woodborough’s Heritage
Woodborough, a Sherwood Forest Village, recorded in Domesday
Kelly’s Directory 1888
Woodborough is a parish and large straggling village, 8 miles north-north-east from Nottingham, 3 miles north-west from Lowdham station on the Midland Railway. In the Rushcliffe Division of the county, wapentake of Thurgarton, Basford Union, Nottingham petty sessional division and county court district, archdeaconry of Nottingham, rural deanery of Gedling and diocese of Southwell. The church of St Swithin is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and low western embattled tower with four pinnacles containing four bells, dating from 1612 to 1680, and clock; there are remains of a good Norman doorway; the chancel is Decorated and the tower of Perpendicular date, the nave and aisles being in a later and debased style: the chancel retains very fine sedilia, an aumbry on the north side and on either side of the communion table are stone brackets with figures of Edward III, and his queen): some remains of the oaken rood screen still exist and a few specimens of ancient stained glass: the font is Norman: the church plate includes a chalice and alms-dish, dated 1676 and a flagon of 1802: there are 250 sittings, the churchyard is now closed. The registers date - 1547 for baptisms, 1573 for marriages and 1572 for burials, and are in good condition. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, with 55½ acres of glebe and residence in the gift of the Bishop of Manchester, and held since 1876 by the Rev’d Frederick Goode-Slight B.A. of St John's College Cambridge. The gross yearly value of the living was increased in 1875 from £118 to £300 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who have also bought the premises formerly used as a free school and have converted them into a vicarage house. The Baptists, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans have each a chapel.
The cemetery of one acre was formed in 1879 at a cost of £300: it has a lych gate but no chapel, and is under the control of a burial board, consisting of five members. The poor have £3 10s yearly. The people are employed in framework knitting. Bricks are made here. This was a Roman settlement. Woodborough Hall, the seat of Mansfield Parkyns Esq. M.A. is a very ancient mansion, situated on a pleasant lawn at the extreme end of the village. The Ecclesiastical commissioners are lords of the manor. Principal landowners are Roby Liddington Thorpe Esq. of the Manor House, Charles Seely Esq. D.L., J.P. of Sherwood Lodge, Arnold. Mansfield Parkyns Esq. M.A. of the Hall, Charles Shaw Esq. and Robert Howett Esq., the last is proprietor of the large racehorse breeding and training establishment in the village, where there are between 70 and 80 racehorses. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans and peas. The area is 1940 acres: rateable value is £4017: The population in 1881 was 889. Woodborough Dumble is 2½ miles west.
Parish clerk, Joseph Richardson.
Post Office - John Foster, Postmaster. Letters arrive through Nottingham at 7.35 a.m.: despatched at 6.15 p.m.
The nearest Money Order Office is at Epperstone and telegraph office at Lowdham.
Endowed School, built in 1878 at a rent of £1600 for 300 children: average attendance 150. The school has an income of £90 yearly, left by the Rev. M. Wood in 1706 with house for the master, Frederick Housley, Master.
Carriers to Nottingham - William Ashmore and James Dunthorne, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Howett, Robert - the Manor House
James, Henry
Parkyns, Mansfield - Woodborough Hall
Slight, Rev’d Frederick Goode, M.A., Vicar
Thorpe, Roby Liddington - Manor House, commercial
Alvey, Charlotte (Mrs) - market gardener
Ashmore, William - New Inn
Baguley, John - shoemaker
Baguley, Joseph - shoemaker
Bish, Herbert - bag hosier
Bish, John - market gardener
Brett, Edward - valuer
Brown, Henry - farm bailiff to Mr G.W. Collyer
Cemetery (F. Housley, Clerk in the Burial Board)
Chantrey, George - farmer
Clay, William - market gardener
Cook, John - bootmaker
Co-operative Stores Limited (John Clayton, salesman)
Donnelly, Mark - framesmith
Dring, George - farmer
Dring, Henry - bag hosier
Dring, James - bag hosier
Dunthorne, James - farmer and carrier
Flinders, William Thorpe - farmer
Footit, George - market gardener
Foster, John - shopkeeper
Hancock, John - grazier
Hartshorn, Francis - market gardener
Hartshorn, John - butcher
Hill, William - brick & tile maker (and at Saxondale)
Hogg, William Junior - Nag's Head
Howett, Robert - farmer, landowner & racehorse breeder
Lamin, William - farm bailiff to Mansfield Parkyns Esq.
Leafe, Joseph - beer retailer
Marriott, Joseph - shopkeeper
Middup, William - farmer
North, John - coal dealer
North, William - shopkeeper
Orange, David - shopkeeper
Orme, William - blacksmith
Patching, William - bricklayer
Pollard, John - tailor
Poole, John - farm bailiff to Colonel C. Seely
Poole, Joseph - farmer
Rawson, John - farm bailiff to C. Shaw Esq.
Reavill, Emma (Mrs) - Four Bells
Richardson, Ann (Mrs) - shopkeeper
Richardson, Arthur - bag hosier
Richardson, John - shopkeeper
Richardson, Mark - butcher
Robinson, Edward - bag hosier
Robinson, William - shopkeeper
Roe, John - market gardener
Southern, William - market gardener
Southern, James - farmer
Taylor & Dixon - machine owners
Thorpe, Roby Liddington - farmer, Manor House.
Tomlinson, Martha (Mrs) - butcher
Turner, Charles - coal dealer
Turner, Eliza (Mrs) - shopkeeper
Vasey, Henry - trainer for Robert Howett Esq
Ward, Richard - wheelwright
Whitworth, William Surplice, Punch Bowl.
Whysall, German - gamekeeper to Robert Howett Esq.
Wood, Thomas - farmer
Woodborough Co-operative - Land & Building Society Ltd, John Richardson - assistant sec.
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001 Timeline |
100 - 114 St Swithuns Church - Index |
115 - 121 Churchyard & Cemetery - Index |
122 - 128 Methodist Church - Index |
129 - 131 Baptist Chapel - Index |
132 - 132.4 Institute - Index |
129 - A History of the Chapel |
130 - Baptist Chapel School (Lilly's School) |
131 - Baptist Chapel internment |
132 - The Institute from 1826 |
132.1 Institute Minutes |
132.2 Iinstitute Deeds 1895 |
132.3 Institute Deeds 1950 |
132.4 Institute letters and bills |
134 - 138 Woodborough Hall - Index |
139 - 142 The Manor House Index |
143 - Nether Hall |
139 - Middle Manor from 1066 |
140 - The Wood Family |
141 - Manor Farm & Stables |
142 - Robert Howett & Mundens Hall |
200 - Buckland by Peter Saunders |
201 - Buckland - Introduction & Obituary |
202 - Buckland Title & Preface |
203 - Buckland Chapter List & Summaries of Content |
224 - 19th Century Woodborough |
225 - Community Study 1967 |
226 - Community Study 1974 |
227 - Community Study 1990 |
400 - 402 Drains & Dykes - Index |
403 - 412 Flooding - Index |
413 - 420 Woodlands - Index |
421 - 437 Enclosure 1795 - Index |
440 - 451 Land Misc - Index |
400 - Introduction |
401 - Woodborough Dykes at Enclosure 1795 |
402 - A Study of Land Drainage & Farming Practices |
People A to H 600+ |
People L to W 629 |
640 - Sundry deaths |
650 - Bish Family |
651 - Ward Family |
652 - Alveys of Woodborough |
653 - Alvey marriages |
654 - Alvey Burials |
800 - Footpaths Introduction |
801 - Lapwing Trail |
802 - WI Trail |