Shelford Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Shelford is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Other places in the parish include: Newton, Saxondale, and Shelford with Newton.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1563
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1627
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Radcliffe on Trent
- Bulcote
- Bingham
- Car Colston
- Gedling
- Tythby with Cropwell Butler
- Burton Joyce
- Lowdham with Gunthorpe and Caythorpe
- East Bridgford
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHELFORD, a village, a township, and a parish, in Bingham district, Notts.
The village stands near the river Trent, 2 miles NNE of Ratcliffe r. station, and 3½ WNW of Bingham; and has a postal pillar-box under Nottingham.
The township contains also part of Newton hamlet. Pop., 597. Houses, 133.
The parish contains a1so the township of Saxondale, and comprises 3,560 acres. Real property, £7,342. Pop., 692. Houses, 155. The manor belongs to the Earl of Chesterfield. An Augustinian priory was founded here, in the time of Henry II., by Ralph de Hanselyn; and went, at the dissolution, to the Stanhopes.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £60. Patron, the Earl of Chesterfield. The church is good; and there are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and three alms houses.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Bingham
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Bingham
- Poor Law Union: Bingham
- Hundred: Bingham
- Province: York