Gedling Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Gedling is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Other places in the parish include: Stoke Bardolph and Carlton.
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1558
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Radcliffe on Trent
- Carrington
- Colwick
- Arnold
- Sneinton St Stephen
- Burton Joyce
- Shelford
- Nottingham St Mary the Virgin
- Lambley
Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Gedling, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts. The township lies on an affluent of the river Trent, adjacent to the Nottingham and Lincoln railway, with a station on the G.N.R. 3½ miles NE by E of Nottingham. It has a post office under Nottingham, with telegraph office at the railway station; money order office, Carlton.
The parish contains also the townships of Stoke Bardolph and Carlton. Area of township, 1918 acres; population, 526; of ecclesiastical parish, 1007. A small portion of the township of Carlton is included in the county borough of Nottingham. Gedling Lodge is the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon. Gedling House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross yearly value, £1075 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Carnarvon. The church is a fine edifice with tower and spire, and there are several charities.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
GEDLING (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Basford, S. division of the wapentake of Thurgarton and of the county of Nottingham, 3 miles (N. E. by E.) from Nottingham; containing, with the hamlet of Carlton and township of Stoke Bardolph, 2642 inhabitants. The parish comprises 4379 acres, mostly arable-land, of various quality: in the township of Gedling are 1626 acres. The population is chiefly agricultural, but a considerable portion of it is employed with stocking-frames, of which great numbers are at work in the hamlet of Carlton.
The village is situated in a picturesque valley opening into the vale of the Trent. The living comprises a rectory and a vicarage, the former valued in the king’s books at 14. 6. 0., and the latter at 6. 16. 8.; net income, 1075; patron, the Earl of Chesterfield: the tithes were commuted for land in 1792. The church is a handsome structure with a lofty spire. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Basford
- Probate Court: Court of the Manor of St John of Jerusalem or Shelford St Johns
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Nottingham
- Poor Law Union: Basford
- Hundred: Thurgarton
- Province: York