Basford

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of one of the Libraries on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2008.

Visit the Basford City Library. It is normally open 4 days per week.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of The Basford Library on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2022.

• The Basford Cemetery in the Nottingham Road was opened in the year 1674, covering 6 acres with two mortuary chapels.
   
• The Basford Cemetery was under the control of the Burial Committee of the Nottingham Corporation.
   
• Rick HALL has a photograph of the Cemetery on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.
   
• Betty Charlotte CARNALL died of diptheria in Jan 1929 at age 2. She is buried in Basford Cemetery in the same plot as her grandfather Charles CARNALL (1867-1922).

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

• The 1086 Domesday Book records a priest at Basford, so there may have been a Christian church here also.
   
• St. Leodegarius Church has Saxon stones hidden in the chancel.
   
• Saint Leodegarius Church dates from the 1180s (one source gives 1126) but has been heavily restored and rebuilt between 1858 and 1859 by Arthur WILSON. The tower collapsed in 1859.
   
• The tower was rebuilt in the Early English style.
   
• In 1900 the roofs had almost been renewed when a fire ruined the chancel and it had to be repaired.
   
• In 1974 a vandal set fire to the organ and organ screen.
   
• The church seats 600.
   
• St. Leodegarius Church is a Grade II listed building with British Heritage.
   
• Richard VINCE has a photograph of St. Leodegarius Church on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
   
• St. Aidan's Church was built in 1905 by Robert Evans and Sons as a chapel of ease to St. Leodegarius Church. The church was consecrated on 21 February 1905.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Aiden's Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2022.

• The Anglican church was in the No. 1 deanery of Nottingham

Church/Denomination/Founded	Register	Start
St. Leodegarius (Anglican)	Baptisms Banns Marriages Burials B.T.s	1561 1757 1568 1561 1627
St. Aidan (Anglican) c.1905	-	-
St. Augustine, New Basford (Anglican) c.1877	Baptisms Banns Marriages	1849 1877 1877
St. John, Carrington (Anglican) 1843	Baptisms Marriages Burials	1843 1847 1843
Pepper Street, New Basford (Anglican) 1848	-	-
Methodist New Connexion, Basford	-	-
General Baptist, Basford pre-1800	Births	1801
High Street Wesleyan Methodist, Old Basford 1805	Marriages	1900
Rawson Street Primitive Methodist, Old Basford	Marriages	1934
Chapel Street General Baptist, New Basford, 1827	-	-
Basford Road Wesleyan Methodist, Basford 1839	Baptisms Marriages	1869 1923
General Baptist, Carrington 1849	-	-
Chapel Street Wesleyan Methodist, Carrington	Baptisms	1839
Wesleyan Methodist, Sherwood pre-1840	-	-
Pepper Street Scotch Baptist, Basford. 1826	Membership	1877
Mount Street Primitive Methodist, New Basford 1848	-	-
Mount Street Wesleyan Methodist, New Basford 1825	Baptisms	1830
Wesleyan Methodist, New Basford 1835	-	-
Park Lane United Methodist Reform, Basford	Baptisms Marriages	1888 1939
Percy Street Methodist, Basford	Baptisms	1936
St. John's Methodist, Basford	Baptisms	1914
High Street General Baptist, Old Basford c.1857	-	-
Nottingham Road General Baptist, Basford c.1861	Membership	1861
Arnold Street Baptist, Old Basford	Marriages	1966

There is a photograph of the Queensberry Street Baptist Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2008.

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

This village and parish lie in a valley of the River Leen about 1.5 miles northwest from Nottingham city centre. The parish covers 1,158 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, the village is just off of the A611 trunk road, heading north out of Nottingham city.
   
• Local bus service is available from Nottingham town centre.
   
• Basford has three passenger train stations. Plan ahead if you arrive by train!
   

John SUTTON has a photograph of the Basford Tram Stop on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2004.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Basford was a major centre for frameowrk knitting in the 1800s and early 1900s.
   
• Several Framework Knitter families moved to Calai in the early 1800s.
   
• Basford used to be a major soap manufacturing town. A factory was established in the 1890s by Gerard Bros., which in 1955 was acquired by Cussons Sons & Co, manufacturer of Cussons Imperial Leather soap. In 2005 the factory was closed.
   
• You might want to get a subscription to the Basford Bystander and keep track of what is happening in the area. The site offers copies of the newsletter in Portable Document File format for Adobe Acrobat Reader by e-mail.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of The Vernon public house on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2017.

The London Gazette, October 1841, carried this notice:

"A David TRUEMAN, formerly of King Street, New Basford Nottingham, residing at Edmund's Place, Aldergate St., London, Lace Dealer, Commission Agent for the Sale of Lace, and Manchester Warehouseman, afterwards of No. 9. Wallbrook Buildings, New Road, Hoxton, Middx, in business first at No. 98 Wood St. Cheapside and afterwards of No. 18 Maiden Lane, Cheapside, Lace Dealer, Commission Agent, and Manchester warehouseman, then of Shand's place, New Peckham, then of No. 35 Gainsford St., Horsleydown, then of No 8. Salisbury Place, Walworth, then of Rodney Buildings, New Kent Rd. Surrey, in business at No. 71 Lower Thames St. afterwards at No 98 Lower Thames St. aforesaid, as a Foreign Merchant and General Dealer and Dealer in Lace and Manchester Warehouseman at No 4 Skinner Place, Sise Lane, London, occasionally residing at Ostend, in Belgium, and Rotterdam, in Holland, as Merchant, then of Green Mount Place, Beeston Hill Near Leeds, Wharfinger, then of same place, then of No 31 Bedford Place, Park Lane, Leeds, and late of Brewer's Place, Hunset, near Leeds, Wharfinger and Coal Merchant, at Bishop-Wharf Leeds, also at Kingston upon Hull, Coal Merchant, under the style or firm of David Trueman and Company."

• Mapperley Hall, was started in 1792 by Ichabod WRIGHT. The parkland around it took on the Mapperley name.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK550434 (Lat/Lon: 52.985125, -1.182201), Basford 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.

• The Basford Rural District Sanatorium was built in 1896 to hold 28 patients.
   
• Patient records were not required to be archived, although hospital financial and staff records may be found in the Archives.
   
• During World War One, the Bagthorpe Hospital became the Bagthorpe Military Hospital. The Nottingham Evening Post, for 15th February 1915 reported that the hospital will be operated by the Royal Army Medical Corps after the existing patients had been re-located. "The military authorities will supply the beds, bedding, and other articles required for the wounded."
   

• Anthony Clarke BOOTH, born in the Carrington district of Basford on 21 April 1846, was awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions in 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War when he covered the retreat of 50 soldiers and others for a distance of three miles. He was a sergeant in the 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) at the time. He died in 1899 in Staffordshire.
   
• There was a World War One Memorial in the Basford Social Club, but at last report this had been stolen. Fortunately, a photograph of the memorial remains (see below).
   
• There was a World War One Memorial in the Chelsea Street Baptist Church, presumably of Baptist church members. But that church has since closed and the memorial has bounced around, finally landing in the Whitemoor Baptist Church. See the next section for a photograph and list of names.
   
• On the front of the Queensberry Street Baptist Church there is War Memorial to WWI members. See the next section for a photograph and list of names.
   
• One war memorial is a glass-topped wooden desk in carved dark oak in St. Loedegarius Church containing The Book of Remembrance. There are 210 names on the Roll of Honour of men from Basford who died in the First World War. No names are included for those who fell in the Second World War.
   
• Also in the church, eight bells were hung in 1921 as a memorial to the fallen of the parish.
   

• For a photograph and the list of names on the Social Club War Memorial, see the Nottingham County Council site.
   
• For a photograph and the list of names on the Whitemoor Baptist Church War Memorial, see the Nottingham County Council site.
   
• The names on the Queensberry Street Baptist Church War Memorial as provided by the Nottingham County Council site are:

1. William Burton
2. William Castles
3. William Stanley Frisby
4. Wallace Powell
5. John Edward Rigley
6. Frank Marshall Rigley
7. William Arthur Spencer
8. L. Spencer
9. Percy Arthur Vickers

The name appears as Baseford in the 1086 Domesday Book. Basford contains the Old English personal name Basa, + ford (Old English), 'a ford', so 'Basa's ford'.

In the SHEFFIELD-AND-ROTHERHAM-INDEPENDENT for 8 May 1841:

"On Tuesday last, at Basford, Mr. H. TAYLOR, surgeon, Nottingham, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr. John HALL, of Mapperley."

• Basford was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and it became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the north division of the Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake.
   
• New Basford was created as an ecclesiastical parish in March, 1847, from that of Basford. It appears that New Basford became a new Civil Parish in 1899.
   
• Basford parish was absorbed into Nottingham city in 1877 and became one of the northern suburbs of the city.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• There was a parish workhouse in Basford in 1777. It served several nearby parishes and housed up to 44 inmates.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1792.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became the center of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   
• The old workhouse from 1777 became a maternity hospital and then a psychiatric hospital.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	2,124
1811	2.940
1821	3,599
1831	6.325
1841	8,688
1851	10,093
1861	12,185
1871	13,038
1881	18,137
1891	22,781
1901	27,119

Children in the Basford area usually attend Southwark Primary and Infants School, Heathfield Primary School, Whitemoor Primary School or Old Basford School. The only secondary school in the area is the Ellis Guilford School and Sports College in Bar Lane.

David HALLAM-JONES has a photograph of the old Southwell Junior School on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2012.