Woodborough’s Heritage
Woodborough, a Sherwood Forest Village, recorded in Domesday
Woodborough is a large straggling village, in a narrow dale near the Dover Beck, 8 miles north-east by north of Nottingham. Its parish comprises 801 inhabitants, and 1940 acres of land. The common was enclosed in 1798, when 252 acres were allotted to the three Prebends of Oxton and Woodborough, 16 acres 1 rood 1 perch to William Taylor Esq., and 53a, 3r, 11p. to the late John Bainbridge Storey Esq., in lieu of the great tithes and their manorial claims; they being both impropriators and lords of the manor, which is now in 3 divisions, called the Prebendal, the Copyhold, and the Freehold estates. The latter now belongs to William Taylor Esq. The Hall was anciently the residence of the Strelleys and the Bainbridges, and is now the seat and property of John Ingall Werge Esq., who purchased it 1842, with the copyhold estate, from the three co-heiresses of the late J.B.Storey Esq. The church is a larger structure, dedicated to St Swithen, and has some fragments of ancient armorial glass in its windows, which, when perfect, was exceedingly beautiful. It is a curacy, and has been augmented with Queen Anne's Bounty. The Chapter of Southwell is the patron, and the Rev’d Samuel Lealand Oldacre is the incumbent. The Baptists and the Methodists have each a chapel here. The Free School, founded by the Rev’d Montague Wood, in 1736, now possesses a yearly income of £95., arising from a farm of 58a. 2r. 1p. at Blidworth, and a cottage and 7a. 4r. 31p. at Stapleford. The poor have 20 shillings and the singers 20 shillings yearly, from the bequest of William Edge, in 1796; and the former have 50 shillings yearly, as the rent of Nether Close in Calverton parish, which was awarded to them at the enclosure.
Feast, Sunday after the 2nd July.
Here are a friendly society and a lodge of Odd Fellows.
Baguley Joseph - shoemaker
Clay Edward - butcher
Clay William - tailor
Clayton Henry - shopkeeper
Culley George - shoemaker and shopkeeper
Donnely Thomas - framesmith
Donnely Mr William
Foster Thomas - shoemaker
Gadsby William - victualler. Four Bells.
Glover John - parish clerk
Glover Sarah - shopkeeper
Greaves Benjamin - butcher
White’s Directory 1844
Hind Joseph- tailor
Hogg William - victualler. Cock and Falcon.
Howitt Mrs Sarah
Lee John and William - joiners
Lee Thomas - butcher
Mason Jacob - blacksmith
Oldacre Rev’d Samuel Lealand - schoolmaster
Patching Henry - bricklayer
Orme John - blacksmith
Richardson Paul - beerhouse and shopkeeper
Rose Benjamin - wheelwright
Rose John - wheelwright
Sansom William - shoemaker
Sardison David - corn miller
Toplis Sarah - brickmaker
Toplis John - beerhouse
Werge John Ingall, Esq. Hall
Wild Christopher - sinker maker
Wild Elizabeth - shopkeeper
Wood Thomas - victualler. Punch Bowl.
Farmers
Clay William
Cowley Richard,
Crafts R’d - maltster
Cumberland John
Cumberland William
Dring Hannah
Duke William, Brockwell
Flinders Samuel
Glover Ann
Hodgkinson John, Park Farm
Hogg William
Lee John
Mathews Samuel
Poole William. Miers Copy [coppice?]
Taylor William
Wells John
Carriers
John Bish to Nottingham (Wednesdays and Saturdays) Mansfield (Thursdays), Tuxford (Mondays) George Poole to Nottingham (Wednesdays and Saturdays)
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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 |