Farnsfield

Last updated

Farnsfield
Village and civil parish
The parish church of St Michael, at Farnsfield, in Nottinghamshire.jpg
Parish church of St Michael
Farnsfield
Parish map
Nottinghamshire UK location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Farnsfield
Location within Nottinghamshire
Area7.37 sq mi (19.1 km2)
Population3,216 (2021)
•  Density 436/sq mi (168/km2)
OS grid reference SK 64675 56573
•  London 115 mi (185 km)  SSE
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Newark
Postcode district NG22
Dialling code (01623) 88
Police Nottinghamshire
Fire Nottinghamshire
Ambulance East Midlands
UK Parliament
Website www.farnsfieldparish​council.co.uk
List of places
UK
England
Nottinghamshire
53°06′10″N1°02′10″W / 53.10278°N 1.03611°W / 53.10278; -1.03611
Farnsfield The village of Farnsworth, in Nottinghamshire.jpg
Farnsfield

Farnsfield is a large village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire in Sherwood Forest. It is in the local government district of Newark and Sherwood. The population of the civil parish as at the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 2,681, [1] increasing in the 2011 census to 2,731, [2] and 3,216 at the 2021 census. [3]

Contents

The village lies in a predominantly farming area. There is no major industry or employer within Farnsfield. The majority of residents of working age commute to work, mostly to Nottingham, Mansfield or Newark.

Farnsfield's facilities include a small Co-op supermarket and Post Office, a village bakery, butcher, greengrocer, and other small shops. The village has two church es (Anglican and Methodist), a large primary school, and two public houses (The Plough Inn and The Lion).

The Southwell Trail, a former railway line dating to 1842 and now adapted as a multi-user route for foot, cycle and horseback use, passes immediately to the north of the village. A free car park for the trail is located off Station Lane.

In 1944, during World War II, an RAF Halifax bomber MZ519-LKU crashed on the south side of the village. All on board were killed. The site of the crash has a large memorial.

Location

Farnsfield lies in central Nottinghamshire, approximately 14 miles (23 km) north-east of Nottingham, 9 miles (14 km) east of Mansfield and 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of Southwell. It is approximately a mile to the east of the main A614 road linking Nottingham to Doncaster.

History

The parish church of St Michael dates from the 15th century, before the Reformation. Following a fire in the mid-19th century, it was rebuilt by Thomas Chambers Hine and Robert Evans in 1859 to 1860. Only a fragment of the tower from the 15th-century building survives. The parish is in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.

The area has evidence at several sites of ancient Roman and earlier occupation. To the south of the village, along the footpath to Oxton, are the remains of a small Roman marching camp, marked by a small Roman fort. There are no standing remains in the fields, but outlines of the buildings are clearly visible on aerial photos, including the satellite view on Google Maps. [4] One mile south-west of the village is a small oval earthwork. The remains of a hillfort at Combs Farm is encircled by a bank and ditch. From excavated material, this fort appears to have been Romano-British in origin. Two ditches in a wood at Camp Hill, 1½ miles north-east of Farnsfield, are the remaining traces of an Iron Age earthwork, a hillfort. In the 18th century, researchers estimated it to have been 40 acres (16 ha) in area. [5] The Roman camp and the ancient hillfort at Combs Farm are both protected Scheduled Monuments. [6] [7]

There was a tower windmill on Siding Lane (grid reference SK644572 ) shown on a map of 1898 [8] as an 'old windmill'. It was recorded as a shell in August 1935, with the cap and fantail gone. The mill was owned at some time by a miller named Whitehead, who also milled at Edingley Watermill. When in use, it was powered by a gas engine.

The Good Intent Windmill (grid reference SK639571 ) was a tower mill, built c. 1820 for Holliday, a resident of Farnsfield. Material for building the mill was carted from Fiskerton. The tower was 6 storeys, brick-built and untarred, with 4 sweeps driving 3 pairs of stones (1 French and 2 grey). The mill was worked by William Shaw, who was succeeded by his son Alec c. 1893. The mill was sold to George Hutchinson, who worked it for short periods until the machinery was dismantled and the tower demolished about 1915.

A post windmill was recorded near the Junction Inn, owned by Bower. [9]

Halifax Bomber Memorial The 'Halifax Bomber Memorial', at Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire.jpg
Halifax Bomber Memorial

On 6 July 1944 an RAF Halifax bomber MZ519-LKU crashed on the south side of the village on its return to RAF Burn near York. The Halifax had been on a mission to destroy a V1 flying bomb site in Nazi-occupied France. All of the Canadian and British crewmen on board were killed. A large memorial was erected at the crash site. A copse of English oaks and Canadian maples was planted and dedicated to the crewmen.

A History of Farnsfield was published in 2000 by the Farnsfield Millennium Trust. They also compiled an oral history based on recordings of local people and related transcripts; copies of these were given to the local schools. A copy available in the library is illustrated by local artist Barbara Coulam.

Farnsfield is twinned with the French village of Andouillé.

The Lady Goodwin Play Park on Station Lane is named after Lady Florence Goodwin, the wife of philanthropist Sir Stuart Goodwin: he was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1955.

Notable people

Both Sir Augustus Charles Gregory and his brother, Francis Gregory, Australian explorers and politicians, were born in Farnsfield. Their family emigrated to Australia in 1829, where they made their careers. [10]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blidworth</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Blidworth is a village and civil parish approximately five miles east of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 4,457, this dropped to 4,295 in the 2021 census. Its history can be traced back to the 10th century, although many of the current houses were built in the first half of the 20th century to provide housing for workers at Blidworth Colliery (1926–1989). These are mainly in estates north of Dale Lane, known as New Blidworth. The area around Main Street, west of Beck Lane and including the church, is Old Blidworth, containing some of the oldest buildings. Blidworth Bottoms is a hamlet about 0.5 km south of Old Blidworth, while Haywood Oaks is the portion of the village south of Dale Lane and the south eastern rural area of the parish surrounding Haywood Oaks Lane.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Burton Joyce</span> Village in Nottinghamshire, England

Burton Joyce is a large village and civil parish in the Gedling district of Nottinghamshire, England, 7 miles (11 km) east of Nottingham, between Stoke Bardolph to the south and Bulcote to the north-east. The A612 links it to Carlton and Netherfield to the south-west and Lowdham to the north-east. Initially the site of an Iron age fort, it was occupied by Norman nobility, who founded St Helen's Church. From being a farming community, Burton Joyce grew in the early Industrial Revolution, earning repute up to the 1920s for its textile products. Many of its 3,500 inhabitants commute to work in Nottingham. It forms with Stoke Bardoph and Bulcote the Trent Valley ward of Gedling, with two councillors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Epperstone</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Epperstone is an English village and civil parish in mid-Nottinghamshire, located near Lowdham and Calverton. It had a population of 589 at the time of the 2011 census, falling to 517 at the 2021 census. Many inhabitants commute to work or school in Nottingham 9 miles (16 km) to the south-west.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gringley on the Hill</span> Civil parish in England

Gringley on the Hill, Nottinghamshire, is an English village and parish. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 699, increasing to 854 in 2021. It is on the highest part of the road from Bawtry to Gainsborough, six miles east-southeast of the former, and the same distance west by north of the latter town.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Upton, Newark and Sherwood</span> Village in Nottinghamshire, England

Upton is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Southwell, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Newark and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Hockerton; it lies on the A612 Nottingham-Newark road. In 1889, the village was described as sitting on a bend in the main road, "on the summit of a hill which commands a fine view of the Trent Valley.... The church, which is a prominent feature in the landscape, has a substantial Perpendicular tower crowned by eight pinnacles, and having in the centre a lofty master pinnacle which rises above its neighbours, and so adds materially to the effect."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rainworth</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Rainworth is a village in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. It is split between the local government districts of Newark and Sherwood and Mansfield.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire</span> Human settlement in England

Fiskerton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Fiskerton cum Morton, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the west bank of the River Trent about 3 miles southeast of Southwell. The waterfront is home to million-pound residential properties, previously residences of merchants and businessmen who commuted in the 1800s to nearby Nottingham by rail from Fiskerton Station. In 1881 the parish had a population of 283.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norwell, Nottinghamshire</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Norwell is a village and civil parish about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Newark-on-Trent, in central Nottinghamshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 490, this declined to 470 at the 2021 census. It is close to the border with Lincolnshire and the River Trent, and lies approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the A1 road and 1 mile (1.6 km) from the East Coast Main Line.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eakring</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Eakring is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. Its population at the 2011 census was 419, and this increased to 440 residents for the 2021 census. There was sizeable oil production there in the mid-20th century.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Whatton-in-the-Vale</span> Village in Nottinghamshire, England

Whatton-in-the-Vale is an English village in the Nottinghamshire borough of Rushcliffe. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir, with the River Smite to the west and a subsidiary, the River Whipling to the east, mainly north of the trunk A52 road, 12 miles (19 km) east of Nottingham. It had a population of 843 at the 2011 census, increasing to 874 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Misterton, Nottinghamshire</span> Village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England

Misterton is a village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish population at the 2011 census was 2,140, and has risen to 2,191 residents in the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Newton, Nottinghamshire</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Newton is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of East Bridgford and about 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the River Trent, close to the junction of the A46 Fosse Way and the A6079. It had 841 residents at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Coddington, Nottinghamshire</span> Village and civil parish in England

Coddington is an English village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Newark-on-Trent. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 972, which increased to 1,684 at the 2011 Census and to 1,538 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Halloughton</span> Village in Nottinghamshire

Halloughton is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, 9 miles west of Newark-on-Trent. It lies in the district of Newark and Sherwood. Most of the property there was owned by the Church Commissioners until 1952. The resident population of the parish was 65 at the 2021 census.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Caythorpe, Nottinghamshire</span> Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Caythorpe is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. It is situated 10 miles (16 km) north-east from Nottingham, close to the River Trent. According to the 2001 census, it had a population of 259, increasing to 271 at the time of the 2011 census,. and dropping to 257 at the 2021 census.

This is a list of scheduled monuments in Nottingamshire, a county in England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kersall</span> Civil parish in England

Kersall is a hamlet and civil parish within the Newark and Sherwood district of central Nottinghamshire, England.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiskerton cum Morton</span> Civil parish in England

Fiskerton cum Morton is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The overall area had a population of 803 at the 2021 census. The parish lies in the south east of the county. It is 112 miles north of London, 12 miles north east of the city of Nottingham, 5 miles west of the town of Newark-on-Trent and 21⁄2 miles south east of the town of Southwell. The parish lies along the bank of the River Trent and is primarily a commuter residential area to both Nottingham and Newark.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Headon cum Upton</span> Civil parish in England

Headon cum Upton is a civil parish in the Bassetlaw district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Headon, Upton and the hamlet of Nether Headon. The parish is adjacent to Askham, Gamston, East Drayton, Eaton, Grove, Rampton and Woodbeck, Stokeham and Treswell. In the 2021 census, the parish had a population of 192. The area is 3.5 miles south east of the nearest market town Retford, 26 miles north east of the county town Nottingham and 125 miles north of London. Headon cum Upton shares a parish council with Grove and Stokeham. There are 6 listed buildings in Headon cum Upton.

Bilsthorpe Moor is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bilsthorpe, in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. It is 120 miles north of London, 13 miles north east of the city of Nottingham, and 5 miles south of Ollerton, and close to the junction of the A614 and A617 roads.

References

  1. ↑ ""Area: Farnsfield CP (Parish)"". Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  3. ↑ UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Farnsfield parish (E04007903)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "Google Maps - Aerial View of Farnsfield Roman Camp". Google Maps. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  5. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
  6. ↑ "Roman camp 470m south of Carr Banks Farm, Farnsfield - 1018121 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Slight univallate hillfort, 169m west of Combs Farm, Farnsfield - 1003483 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  8. ↑ Ordnance Survey One Inch to Mile, 1898
  9. ↑ Nottinghamshire Archive ref. DDM 98/59 Sale of windmill 13 XII 1847.
  10. ↑ "Augustus Charles Gregory". Farnsfield Local History Society. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.