Whitwell

The Whitwell Library on the north side of Portland Street is normally open Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. They have a Local Studies and Family History section to help you with your search.

The Library in Worksop, Notts. is also a good source for information.

• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Victorian headstones in the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.
   
• Mike SPENCER has provided a partial extract of burials found in the parish register. Your additions and correction are welcome.
   
• Trevor LITTLEWOOD has a photograph of the Graveyard in Whitwell on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2013.

• The parish was in the Carburton sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Lawrence.
   
• The church is 12th century construction.
   
• Richard CROFT provides a photograph of St. Lawrence's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2007.
   
• Chris MORGAN has a photograph of St. Lawrence's Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2013.
   
• J. THOMAS also has a photograph of St. Lawrence's church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1672.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Staveley.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel here in 1846.
   
• David BEVIS provides a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2011.

• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   
• The parish was in the Carburton sub-district of the Worksop Registration District.

"WHITWELL is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale; the village is situate at the N.E. extremity of the county, and is twelve miles N.E. from Chesterfield. The Duke of Portland is lord of the manor. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence; the living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Duke, and in the incumbency of the Rev. George Mason, of Cuckney, Nottinghamshire; the Rev. J. Harnage is the present curate."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

The parish is 4 miles west of Worksop and covers 4,880 acres. The parish had passenger rail service from 1875 until 1964. The station was re-built and re-opened in 1998. Nigel THOMPSON provides a photograph of Whitwell railway station on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

Neil THEASBY has a photograph of the Village Sign on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012. It appears substantial enough to stop a small tank, but it could use your talent for design and artistic skills to create a more enticing sign.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Heather FAULKES has transcribed the Description of Whitwell from Pigot's Directory of 1828.
   
• Rosemary LOCKIE provides a transcription of the Whitwell entry from Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire (1835).
   
• Ann ANDREWS provides a transcription of the Whitwell entry from Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (1891).

• Colin HINSON provides the transcription of the section for Whitwell from the National Gazetteer (1868).

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Whitwell to another place.

• There are Anglo-Saxon charters that refer to Whitwell.
   
• Whitwell won the 'Best Kept Village in Derbyshire' Award in 1988.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the former Old George Inn on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2015.
   
• David BEVIS has a photograph of the Royal Oak on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2010.
   
• David BEVIS also has a photograph of the Jug and Glass on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2007.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK528767 (Lat/Lon: 53.28465, -1.209494), Whitwell which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• There is a War Memorial in the centre of the village on Station street. Andrew HILL provides a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2011.
   
• Jonathan CLITHEROE provides a view of the War Memorial in a round-about island on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.

• There is a Roll of Honour online at the Whitwell Local History Group website with a list of people honoured, along with age, rank, unit and date of death. That list of names is below:

1. ALLETSON, A. (Edwin)
2. ASHLEY, Colin +
3. ASTLE, Joseph
4. BAILEY, William
5. BENNETT, Arthur
6. BENNETT, George
7. BINCH, Thomas Henry
8. BROWN, Frederick Charles
9. BUCKINGHAM, John Thomas
10. BUTTERFIELD, Joseph
11. CARDING-WELLS, John Richard
12. CARTWRIGHT, Percy
13. CLARKE, Walter
14. COLLINGHAM, Joseph
15. COOPER, William
16. COUPE, James William
17. COUPE, Percy Noel
18. DOLBY, Arthur
19. DOLBY, John Thomas
20. ELLIS, Harry
21. ELLIS, John Thomas Presley
22. FOREST, Samuel
23. FOX, Thomas Bostock
24. GALLIMORE, John
25. GASCOIGNE, Thomas
26. GEE, Daniel
27. GODLEY, Arthur
28. GODLEY, John Lindley
29. GRAINGER, John
30. HAMMOND, Thomas William
31. HANCOCK, Joseph
32. HARROP, Ethelbert H.
33. HARVEY, H.
34. HAWKINS, Harry
35. HEELEY, Thomas
36. HEWKIN, Walter
37. HILLABY, J. E.
38. HUNT, R.
39. HURT, John Robert
40. HURT, William Edward
41. JACKSON, Charles J.
42. JOHNSON, George Henry
43. KIRK, Andrew
44. KITCHEN, Edward
45. LEE, G. E. +
46. LEE, Mathew
47. LINDLEY, Joseph Pilkington
48. LOWE, Thomas C.
49. MALTHOUSE, Francis J. G.
50. MELLISH, James Richard
51. MORRIS, R.
52. NORTON, William
53. PARKER, George
54. PENTELOW, Frank Alban
55. RAMSDEN, Joseph
56. RAMSDEN, Richard
57. RAYNES, Luke
58. RODGERS, Harold
59. SHEEN, James F.
60. SIBBRING, Aubrey Crawford
61. SMITH, Joseph
62. SMITH, Reginald
63. SMITH, Richard
64. SMITH, William Alexander
65. SNOOKS, Samuel
66. SQUIRES, Harry
67. SQUIRES, Levi +
68. STANSBURY, Thomas
69. STEVENS, Arthur
70. STONE, John Durward
71. STOREY, Stephen
72. STREETS, Arthur Robert
73. STREETS, John William
74. STUBBINGS, Arthur
75. SWANN, Wilfred Henry
76. TAYLOR, Joseph William
77. THORPE, John William
78. WALKER, William
79. WAREHAM, William
80. WATKINS, Francis
81. WATSON, John
82. WHITE, Joseph
83. WILKINSON, Albert
84. WILKINSON, Joseph Walter
85. WOOD, Colin
86. WOOD, Joseph
87. WOODHEAD, Albert
88. YOUNG, George Herbert

John William THORPE, above, was the first lad from the parish to die in WWI. World War 2 names:

1. BEESTON, Lawrence Edward
2. BERRY, Herbert
3. BIRD, Arthur +
4. BUCKINGHAM, Harry
5. EDWARDS, Francis Ernest
6. EKIN, Harold
7. HARNESS, Roland Leslie
8. HIGGINS, William Burley +
9. HOLLINGWORTH, James Frederick
10. HUNT, Cyril
11. PERRETT, William
12. PROFFIT, Herbert
13. SHAKESPEARE, Stanley Norman
14. SQUIRES, Frank
15. SUGDEN, Harold
16. THORPE, Douglas Alan +
17. WHEATLEY, Douglas Joseph
18. WILLIS, Joseph William +

Names with a + sign are buried in St. Lawrence's churchyard.

Jon CANTRILL offers this notice from the Derbyshire Times of January 17th 1920: "DEATHS: CANTRILL - On January 13th at Butt(?) Hill Farm, Whitwell, Elizabeth the dearly loved wife of Henry CANTRILL (late of Duckmanton, later ____(?), Whitwell). Churchyard, Saturday 2.30pm."

• This place was an ancient parish in Derby county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was partly in the ancient Scarsdale Hundred (or Wapentake).
   
• You may contact the local Whitwell Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but, please, do NOT ask them to help you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bolsover District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Eckington petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1813.
   
• After the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.

Whitwell Hall was used for many years as the parish's National School.

By 1863 a Boys' School had been erected. Parents paid one penny each week for the child to attend this school.

In 1874 some students attended a school in nearby Creswell.

In 1896 the decision was taken to build a new school in the centre of the village. In March, 1897 the Duke of Portland had laid the foundation stone. On 25th April 1898 the new Infant School opened.

Staffing of the schools was almost impossible during World War I. School gardens were introduced, but food was often in short supply.

In May 1958, some 229 senior children were transferred to the newly built Markland Secondary Modern School at Creswell.

In July, 1976 building commenced on a new school. In December, the new classroom saw its first students.

• The village has a Local History Group. Meetings are on Tuesday evenings.