Arnold

The local Library is in Arnold Town Centre on Front Street and has a Local History section.  Parking is available at the Arnold Leisure Centre.  The Library is open six days per week and is a branch of the Nottingham County Council Library System:

• Arnold Library
• Front Street
• Arnold, Notts, NG5 7EE
• Tele: 0115 920 2247

This was once known as the Carnegie Library when built in Nottingham Road in 1906. The library was demolished in 1981 and is now the site of a Wilkinson's store. The new Library was refurbished in 2015.

M. E. SPICK, "Arnold and Bestwood in old photographs", Alan Sutton Publishing/NCC Leisure Services, ISBN 0 862 99954 5

• The Arnold Cemetery, set aside in 1877, covers 4 acres and had two mortuary chapels when formed. The cemetery is at Redhill, on the Nottingham-Mansfield road.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the two mortuary chapels at Arnold Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
   
• The first burial here appears to be in July, 1879.
   
• The Arnold Cemetery is administered by the Burial Board of the Urban District Council.
   
• The churchyard burial ground contains headstones from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Many have been moved to the sidewalls of the burial ground and some of the older ones are inside the church itself. Burials ceased here in 1879 when the public cemetery at Redhill opened.
   

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

• A church is believed to have been built here in 1176.
   
• The present church chancel and nave were added on to the 1176 structure on Church Lane in 1320 with a tower added in 1450.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary.
   
• The church nave was restored in 1868 and the chancel in 1877.
   
• A Bosworth turret clock with three dials was installed on the tower in 1868.
   
• The church has its own website with several pages of information.
   
• St Katherine’s Chapel in the church was refurbished shortly after World War One and rededicated to the memory of the 252 men of Arnold who had lost their lives in the Great War.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014.
   
• Tom COURTNEY also has a photograph of St. Mary's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2004.
   
• Daybrook was established as a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1896, the year its church was erected.
   
• The church at Daybrook is dedicated to Saint Paul.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Paul's Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.
   

Church/Denomination/Founded	Register	Start
St Mary's (Anglican)	Baptisms Banns Marriages Burials B.T.s	1544 1754 1546 1544 1605
St. Paul's (Anglican) 1890	Baptisms Marriages	1890 1896
Church Street (General Baptist) 1822 (rebuilt in 1909)	Membership	1890
Primitive Methodist 1829	-	1829
Meeting House (General Baptist) 1848	-	1848
Weekly Communion (Baptist) 1825	-	1825
Wesleyan Methodist pre-1800	-	-
Mormon 1849		1849

• The Anglican parish church was in the rural deanery of Nottingham.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the United Reformed Church on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010. This church replaced the original Congregational Chapel of 1871.
   
• David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Reform Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018. This church has been sold and is scheduled to be demolished.
   
• Barbara Kilby CROFT provides this Ebenezer Chapel Marriage list for those interested.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of the King's Centre Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2014. The church opened in 2002.
   

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

Nottinghamshire Police have been headquartered in Arnold since 1979. Mick GARRATT has a photograph of the Oxclose Lane Police Station on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006

This village and parish lie about 4 miles north of Nottingham and about 10 miles south-east of Mansfield. The parish covers 4,670 acres and includes the hamlets of Daybrook and Red Hill.  Felley  used to be a chapelry in this parish but became its own Civil Parish and is reported under that name.

The village of Arnold has become part of the conurbation of Nottingham city and sits as a suburb on that city's northeast side. Red Hill is a village just northwest of Arnold that is considered part of Arnold. If you are planning a visit to the village:

• Take the A60 trunk road north out of Nottingham. Arnold will be on your right side (east) as you head north.
   
• There is frequent bus service into the village from Nottingham.
   
• Rail service to the village ceased in April, 1960.
   
• Sherwood Forest starts just to the north of Arnold. In 1775, Sherwood Forest surrounded the village.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
   

John Marius WILSON's 1872 "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales" describes this place as:

ARNOLD, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in the district of Basford, Notts. The village stands near Sherwood forest, 2½ miles ENE of Bulwell r. station, and 5½ N by E of Nottingham. It has a post office‡ under Nottingham. Its inhabitants are employed chiefly in lace and stocking making. The parish includes also part of Daybrook hamlet and the seats of Arnold Grove and Sherwood Lodge. Acres, 4,570. Real property, £12,059. Pop., 4,642. Houses, 971. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £310. Patron, the Duke of Devonshire. The church is later English, and has a tower. There are chapels for Sc. Presbyterians, Baptists, Wesleyans and P. Methodists. A school has £23 from endowment, and other charities £10. R. Bonington the painter, born in 1801, was a native.-The subdistrict comprises six parishes and an extra-parochial liberty. Acres, 18,540. Pop., 8,378. Houses, 1,779.

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

From the London Chronicle: In April, 1780, about nine o'clock, as John HEARSON, of Arnold, in Nottinghamshire, was riding through the town of Arnold, both himself and horse were struck dead by a flash of lightning.

Richard Parkes BONINGTON was born in Arnold on 25 October 1802. BONINGTON learned watercolour painting from his father Richard and exhibited paintings at the Liverpool Academy at the age of eleven. In 1817, BONINGTON's family moved to Calais, France, where his father had set up a lace factory. In 1818, the BONINGTON family moved to Paris to open a lace shop. In 1824, he won a gold medal at the Paris Salon. In late 1828 his tuberculosis worsened and his parents sent him back to London for treatment. BONINGTON died of tuberculosis on 23 September 1828, just a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday.

A statue of Richard P. BONINGTON was erected outside the Nottingham School of Art by Watson FOTHERGILL. A primary school in town is named for him. The house in which he was born (79 High Street, Arnold) is now named ‘Bonington House’ and is Grade II listed.

• In the 1800s many of the inhabitants were frame-work knitters (often abbreviated FWK in many records).
   
• Arnold was one of the first sites of the Luddite uprising in 1811, when 63 frames were smashed.
   
• The village feast was held on the first Sunday after the 19th of September.
   
• The Home Ales Brewery was founded here in 1875 in Daybrook.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Robin Hood (and) Little John pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of the former Lord Nelson pub. in Front Street on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
   
• Thomas COURTNEY has a photograph of the Travellers Rest Inn on the B684 northeast of Arnold on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2004.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK586454 (Lat/Lon: 53.002721, -1.128222), Arnold 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 are photographs and a description of the War Memorial plaques inside St. Katherine's Chapel on the Southwell Church History Project site. One of them is the Allen SOLLY plaque listed in the next section.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a World War II Pillbox near Arnold on the Geo-graph site, taken in August, 2011.
   
• You can try to find a copy of the "Arnold & Daybrook War Memorial," by Anthony BALL & Cliff HOUSLEY, publ. by Millquest Publications, Long Eaton, Notts, ISBN: 0 9529648 7 2.
   
• Peter BARR has a photograph of the Former Drill Hall on Arnold Road, built around 1913 for the 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, on the Geo-graph site, taken in August, 2014.
   

There are 81 Commonwealth War Graves in Arnold Cemetery. In the listings below, some names are on more than one memorial.

There is a Roll of Honour plaque in St. Mary's Church. These are the names listed on the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

1. Joseph Ainger
2. Robert Ainger
3. Thomas Allcock
4. William Allcock
5. George William Allen
6. Samuel Allen
7. Frank Ancliff
8. Walter Annable
9. Walter Anthony
10. Joseph William Arbon
11. George Armson
12. Robert Armson
13. William Henry Askew
14. Christopher Ernest Atherley
15. Thomas Walter Atherley
16. George Atkin
17. Lawrence Bertram Atkinson
18. Frederick Richard Bagguley
19. Walter William Ball
20. Oliver Herbert Ball
21. Wilfred Bancroft
22. Ernest Barber
23. Walter Barnes
24. Henry Richard Barratt
25. Colin Bell
26. Eric Bell
27. Leonard Bennett
28. Cyril Bird
29. Arthur Edward Blacknell
30. Charles Richard Bowtell
31. George Harold Bradley
32. Joseph Arthur Broad
33. Henry Cecil Brown
34. Samuel Brown
35. Frank Burton
36. William Burton
37. John Leslie Butler
38. Bertie William Campion
39. Thomas Cartledge
40. Henry Wells Cash
41. Wilfrid Arthur Cash
42. Albert Cast
43. William Casterton
44. Herbert Chamberlain
45. Alfred William Chapman
46. James Churm
47. Walter Clark
48. Claude Harry Clark
49. Leonard William Clarke
50. Jonathan Clegg
51. James Frederick Newham Colbourne
52. William Colledge
53. Thomas Henry Colley
54. William Cook
55. Eric Rushton Cooke
56. Thomas Cooke
57. Walter Cooke
58. Thomas Cooper
59. Walter Corah
60. Arthur Cresswell
61. Alec Dabell
62. James Dalby
63. Solomon Davis
64. Frederick Richard Denham
65. Leonard Denham
66. William Denham
67. Frederick Dennison
68. John Desborough
69. John Clarke Dexter
70. Edward Dobb
71. Samuel Dove
72. Sydney Owen Dyer
73. Frank Eastgate
74. George Ellis
75. Thomas Ellis
76. Walter Edward Ellis
77. Thomas James Everton
78. Christopher Arnsed Fell
79. Percy Fell
80. Henry Fish
81. Geoffrey Herbert Fisher
82. John Wilfred Fisher
83. George Henry Ford
84. William Forrest
85. William Foster
86. George James Fox
87. Walter Ernest Fox
88. Frederick Fulham
89. Albert Edward Garratt
90. Herbert Gent
91. Albert Gilbert
92. William Godfrey
93. Richard Gosling
94. Robert Goss
95. George Henry Gray
96. Ernest Gregg
97. Basil Gretton
98. John Henry Gretton
99. Harold Grundy
100. Albert Guy
101. Joseph William Hague
102. Herbert Nelson Hammond
103. George John Hammond
104. John James Hart
105. Joseph Hart
106. Edward John Thomas Hartshorn
107. George Arthur Collingwood Hartshorn
108. Lawrence Hartshorn
109. William Robert Harvey
110. George Gordon Hodson
111. John William Holbrook
112. Alfred Ernest Holmes
113. Charles Hopewell
114. Alfred Horton
115. Bert Horton
116. Samuel John Hough
117. Arthur Hudson
118. James Hudson
119. James Hudson
120. Harty Batham Hunt
121. William Hunt
122. James Huskey
123. Edward Hyde
124. Jack Hyde
125. Walter Hyman
126. John Jeffery
127. Harry Johnson
128. John Hollingworth Jordan
129. Samuel Jordan
130. Frank Kinnerley
131. Harry Kinnerley
132. Edward Kirk
133. Edward Kirk
134. Francis Henry Kirk
135. Martin Luther Lacey
136. John Thomas Lane
137. Wallace Lane
138. William Lane
139. Charles Langford
140. Cecil Charles Lear
141. Harold Leivers
142. Joseph Leivers
143. Harold Frederick Lindsell
144. Walter Lindsell
145. Eric Linnell
146. Albert Horace Lucas
147. Sam Lucas
148. Charles Mackintosh
149. George Maddock
150. Harold Lot Mansell
151. Joseph Martin Mansell
152. Christopher Marriott
153. Roland Marriott
154. Frank Marshall
155. Harold Marshall
156. Frederick John Marshall
157. Frank Martin
158. Fred Martin
159. Horace Hardy Mayfield
160. Horace Mayfield
161. Leonard Augustus Mayfield
162. Bertie Mee
163. William James Melbourne
164. William Merrin
165. Alfred Moore
166. Benjamin Moore
167. Frederick William Moore
168. James Moore
169. James William Moore
170. Isaac Morris
171. John Ingram Morris
172. William Morris
173. William Nash
174. Lewis Needham
175. John Arthur Northage
176. Alec Taylor Oldham
177. Ernest William Orange
178. Herbert Samuel Orange
179. Richard Wilson Ormandy
180. John Henry Oscroft
181. Harold Owen
182. Gordon Palmer
183. Joseph Palmer
184. Thomas Palmer
185. Walter Parr
186. Charles Henry Pearson
187. John Pearson
188. Samuel Percy Peck
189. William Peck
190. Alfred William Ping
191. Bernard Raynor
192. Ernest Reavill
193. William Rennocks
194. Charles Edward Richardson
195. James Rimmington
196. Edward George Robinson
197. Samuel Rockley
198. George Thomas Roe
199. George Rose
200. Samuel Rose
201. William Rose
202. George Henry Ruffles
203. Alfred Edwin Sanders
204. Alfred James Sarles
205. Francis Saxton
206. James Scott
207. Charles Grant Seely
208. George Sharratt
209. Percy Sheldon
210. William Foley Sheldon
211. James Dunn Simpson
212. Arthur Smith
213. Harry Smith
214. Thomas Spouge
215. Daniel Harold Stenhouse
216. George Stevenson
217. Jesse Stevenson
218. John Henry Stokes
219. George Stones
220. Frederick Stretch
221. John Stretch
222. George Sudbury
223. James Sulley
224. John Sulley
225. Joseph Sulley
226. Sidney Sulley
227. Arthur Surgey
228. George William Taylor
229. John Bernard Teece
230. Thomas Bernard Terry
231. John Thomas (Tom) Tolley
232. William Henry Tolley
233. Tom Townsend
234. John Edward Turner
235. Samuel Turner
236. Thomas Cyril Turner
237. Arthur Leonard Varley
238. Albert Ernest War
239. Ernest Ward
240. William Wardle
241. Alfred Watson
242. Bertram Owen Webster
243. Herbert Webster
244. Charles Wells
245. Harold Wells
246. Arthur Wheat
247. George Henry Wheatcroft
248. James Wheatley
249. John Wheatley
250. George Frederick Williamson
251. Joseph Ernest Wright
252. Albert Yates

There is a War Memorial plaque from the Allen SOLLY Company in St. Mary's Church. These are the names engraved on it, per the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

1. Walter Annable
2. Thomas Cartledge
3. William Casterton
4. Walter Cooke
5. James Moore
6. John Pearson
7. Charles Henry Pearson
8. George Rose
9. Samuel Rose
10. William Rose
11. James Sulley
12. George William Taylor
13. Harold Wells

There is a War Memorial Celtic wheel cross on tapering plinth in Arnot Hill Park. These are the names engraved on it, per the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

1. Joseph Ainger
2. Robert Ainger
3. Thomas Allcock
4. William Allcock
5. George William Allen
6. Samuel Allen
7. Frank Ancliff
8. Walter Annable
9. Walter Anthony
10. Joseph William Arbon
11. George Armson
12. Robert Armson
13. William Henry Askew
14. Christopher Ernest Atherley
15. Thomas Walter Atherley
16. George Atkin
17. Lawrence Bertram Atkinson
18. Frederick Richard Bagguley
19. Oliver Herbert Ball
20. Walter William Ball
21. Wilfred Bancroft
22. Ernest Barber
23. Walter Barnes
24. Henry Richard Barratt
25. Colin Bell
26. Eric Bell
27. Leonard B. Bennett
28. Cyril Bird
29. Arthur Edward Blacknell
30. Charles Richard Bowtell
31. George Harold Bradley
32. Joseph Arthur Broad
33. Henry Cecil Brown
34. Samuel Brown
35. Frank Burton
36. William Burton
37. John Leslie Butler
38. Bertie William Campion
39. Thomas Cartledge
40. Henry Wells Cash
41. Wilfrid Arthur Cash
42. Albert Cast
43. William Casterton
44. Herbert Chamberlain
45. Alfred William Chapman
46. James Churm
47. Claude Harry Clark
48. Walter Clark
49. Leonard William Clarke
50. Jonathan Clegg
51. James Frederick Newham (Colbourne)
52. William Colledge
53. Thomas Henry Colley
54. William Cook
55. Eric Rushton Cooke
56. Thomas Cooke
57. Walter Cooke
58. Thomas Cooper
59. Walter Corah
60. Arthur Cresswell
61. Alec Dabell
62. James Dalby
63. Solomon Davis
64. Frederick Richard Denham
65. Leonard Denham
66. William Denham
67. Frederick Dennison
68. John Desborough
69. John Clarke Dexter
70. Edward Dobb
71. Samuel Dove
72. William A. Dove
73. Sydney Owen Dyer
74. Frank Eastgate
75. George Ellis
76. Thomas Ellis
77. Walter Edward Ellis
78. Thomas James Everton
79. Christopher Arnsed Fell Jnr.
80. Percy Fell
81. Henry Fish
82. Geoffrey Herbert Fisher
83. John Wilfred Fisher
84. George Henry Ford
85. William Forrest
86. William Foster
87. George James Fox
88. Walter Ernest Fox
89. Frederick Fulham
90. Albert Edward Garratt
91. Herbert Gent
92. Albert Gilbert
93. William Godfrey
94. Richard Gosling
95. Robert Goss
96. George Henry Gray
97. Ernest Gregg
98. Basil Gretton
99. John Henry Gretton
100. Harold Grundy
101. Albert Guy
102. Joseph William Hague
103. George John Hammond
104. Herbert Nelson Hammond
105. John James Hart
106. Joseph Hart
107. Edward John Thomas Hartshorn
108. George Arthur Collingwood Hartshorn
109. Lawrence Hartshorn
110. William Robert Harvey
111. George Gordon Hodson
112. John William Holbrook
113. Alfred Ernest Holmes
114. Charles Hopewell
115. Alfred Horton
116. Bert W. Horton
117. Samuel John Hough
118. Arthur Hudson
119. James Hudson
120. James Hudson
121. Harty Batham Hunt
122. William Hunt
123. James Huskey
124. Edward Hyde
125. Jack Hyde
126. Walter Hyman
127. John Jeffery
128. Harry Johnson
129. John Hollingworth Jordan
130. Samuel Jordan
131. Frank Kinnerley
132. Harry Kinnerley
133. Edward Kirk
134. Edward Kirk
135. Francis Henry Kirk
136. Martin Luther Lacey
137. John Thomas Lane
138. Wallace Lane
139. William Lane
140. Charles Langford
141. Cecil Charles Lear
142. Harold Leivers
143. Joseph Leivers
144. Harold Frederick Lindsell
145. Walter Lindsell
146. Eric Linnell
147. Albert Horace Lucas
148. Sam Lucas
149. Charles Mackintosh
150. George Maddock
151. Harold Lot Mansell
152. Joseph Martin Mansell
153. Christopher Marriott
154. Roland Marriott
155. Frank Marshall
156. Harold Marshall
157. Frederick John Marshall
158. Frank Martin
159. Fred Martin
160. Horace Mayfield
161. Horace Mayfield
162. Leonard Augustus Mayfield
163. Bertie Mee
164. William James Melbourne
165. William Merrin
166. Alfred Moore
167. Benjamin Moore
168. Frederick William Moore
169. James Moore
170. James William Moore
171. Isaac Morris
172. John Ingram Morris
173. William Morris
174. William Nash
175. Lewis Needham
176. John Arthur Northage
177. Alec Taylor Oldham
178. Ernest William Orange
179. Herbert Samuel Orange
180. Richard Wilson Ormandy
181. John Henry Oscroft
182. Harold Owen
183. Gordon Palmer
184. Joseph Palmer
185. Thomas Palmer
186. Walter Parr
187. Charles Henry Pearson
188. John Pearson
189. Samuel Percy Peck
190. William Peck
191. Alfred William Ping
192. Bernard Raynor
193. Ernest Reavill
194. William Rennocks
195. Charles Edward Richardson
196. James Rimmington
197. Edward George Robinson
198. Samuel Rockley
199. George Thomas Roe
200. George Rose
201. Samuel Rose
202. William Rose
203. George Henry Ruffles
204. Alfred James Sarles
205. Alfred Edwin Sanders
206. Francis Saxton
207. James Scott
208. Charles Grant Seely
209. George Sharratt
210. Percy Sheldon
211. William Foley Sheldon
212. James Dunn Simpson
213. Arthur Smith
214. Harry Smith
215. Thomas Spouge
216. Daniel Harold Stenhouse
217. George Stevenson
218. Jesse Stevenson
219. John Henry Stokes
220. George Stones
221. Frederick Stretch
222. John Stretch
223. George Sudbury
224. James Sulley
225. John Sulley
226. Joseph Sulley
227. Sidney Sulley
228. Arthur Surgey
229. George William Taylor
230. John Bernard Teece
231. Thomas Bernard Terry
232. John Thomas (Tom) Tolley
233. William Henry Tolley
234. Tom T. Townsend
235. John Edward Turner
236. Samuel Turner
237. Thomas Cyril Turner
238. Arthur Leonard Varley
239. Albert Ernest Ward
240. Ernest Ward
241. William Wardle
242. Alfred Watson
243. Bertram Owen Webster
244. Herbert Webster
245. Charles Wells
246. Harold Wells
247. Arthur Wheat
248. George Henry Wheatcroft
249. James Wheatley
250. John Wheatley
251. George Frederick Williamson
252. Joseph Ernest Wright
253. Albert Yates

There is a War Memorial plaque in the Beacon Baptist Church. The inscription reads: "In grateful remembrance of the men of this church who gave their lives in the service of their country 1914-1918 (names). 1939-1945 (names)". These are the names listed on it, as given by the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

1. Walter Corah
2. William Godfrey
3. John Henry Gretton
4. George John Hammond
5. Herbert Nelson Hammond
6. Joseph Leivers
7. Lewis Needham
8. Arthur Smith
9. Harry Smith
10. Arthur Wheat

1939-1945:

1. J. ANTHONY
2. H. B. ARTHUR
3. G. A. ELLIOTT
4. J. G. KAIL
5. T. H. WORTON

And the Methodists have a War Memorial plaque in their church. These are the names listed on it, according to the Nottinghamshire Gov. site.

1. Thomas Walter Atherley
2. Basil Gretton
3. Francis Henry Kirk
4. Harold Leivers
5. George Rose
6. Samuel Rose
7. William Rose
8. Daniel Harold Stenhouse

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the northern division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the northern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1933, the parish gave up 107 acres to enlarge Nottingham Civil Parish.
   
• The parish became part of the Gedling Borough Council whose headquarters are located in the Civic Centre at Arnot Hill Park.
   
• The parish is considered a suburb of Nottingham City, although it is not within its urban boundaries.
   
• The parish is currently in the government district of Gedling.
   

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1789.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Sir John ROBINSON's Almshouses on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2015.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	2,768
1811	3,042
1821	3,572
1831	4,054
1841	4,509
1851	4,704
1861	4,642
1871	4,634
1881	5,745
1891	7,769
1901	8,757

• A Free School was established by Daniel CHADWICK on High Street some time before 1869.
   
• A National School on Church Street was built in 1860.
   
• The High Street Infants' School was built in 1895 to hold 480 students. Average attendance in 1912 was 379.
   
• A British School for 150 boys was opened in February, 1868 and later enlarged.
   
• Daybrook had a mixed school erected in 1878 and enlarged in 1889 to hold 463 students.
   

Contact the Local History Society for additional source material.