Bothamsall

The Mobile Library makes a stop here at the parish church at 3:15pm on the third Thursday of every month. Bothamsall is on the North Mobile Route 2.

The Library at Ollerton would also be a good resource.

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

• There is no mention of a church here in the 1086 Domesday Book.
   
• There is evidence of a chapel here in 1220.
   
• The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1841 from Elkesley parish.
   
• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Mary, but that dedication was in doubt for decades. The dedication is also given as "Our Lady and Saint Peter". This latter designation appears to have begun around 1924, when the church was rededicated.
   
• The church was built in 1845, replacing an earlier church.
   
• Richard CROFT has a good photograph of the church at Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.
   
• Bob HARVEY also has a good photograph of St Peter and St Mary on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016.
   
• The church was restored in 1982.
   
• In 2002, the church was redecorated and electrical work was carried out.
   
• The church seats about 200.
   
• The church is a Grade II building with British Heritage.
   
• For a history of the church and the area around it, visit the Southwell Church History Project site.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church of Our Lady and St. Peter on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2015.
   

• The church was in the rural deanery No. 3 of Retford.
   
• Records of Christenings start in 1530. Wedding and burials started being recorded in 1538.
   
• The Nottinghamshire Archives office has the baptisms 1541 - 1901, marriages 1538 - 1900 and burials 1538 - 1900.
   

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

This village and parish lies about 7 miles south of East Retford and 4.5 miles northwest of Tuxford. It is here that the River Meden and the River Maun join to become the River Idle. This place was a crossroad (or "crossriver") place in Saxon times and several "tracks" or early roads have been charted. The parish covers 2,481 acres.

The village is normally regarded as a suburb of Nottingham. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile the A52 runs through the very nothern part of the village and the A6005 arterial off the M1 at juntion 25 runs through the heart of the village.
   
• Nottingham city provides daily bus service.
   
• Robert HARVEY has a photograph of the Village Hall on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2016. Stop in when they are open and ask for a schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• Andrew HILL gives us a Sign on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2010.
   
• Graham HOGG also has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2015.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

On Castle Hill, just west of the village, are the remains of a camp of some kind. Locals tell of a former castle on the site.

Haughton Kennels were in this parish in the 19th century.

Every summer, in late August, the parish hosts a TRACTOR & ENGINE WORKING WEEKEND.

• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Bothamsall Hall on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2015.
   
• Lound Hall is a country house which sits on the eastern edge of Bothamsall village. The current house was built in the Georgian style in the 1930s for Sir Harald PEAKE, a mining company director. There has been a manor house on the site since the 1700s.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK675734 (Lat/Lon: 53.253327, -0.989737), Bothamsall 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 white plaque with a black frame and black lettering on the church wall, dedicated in 1924.

Lound Hall was used as an orthopaedic hospital during World War II.

There are the 11 names listed on the War MemoriaI plaque in the church:

1. Frederick BARTLE
2. Charles (Aka Hawksley) BLACKBURN
3. Frank HALL
4. Charles Arthur HAXBY
5. George HUNT
6. William HUNT
7. Samuel JESSOP
8. Cyril Whitworth PARKIN
9. Percy PASHLEY
10. William PASHLEY
11. Cecil John SPYVE

Details on these individuals can be found at the Nottingham War Memorials web site.

The parish's early name was "Borneshil". In 1297, the name appears as "Bothemsill”.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county, but was assigned as a part of Elkesley parish for many centuries. It did not become a separate modern Civil Parish until December, 1866.
   
• The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• In March, 1884, this parish gained the area of Lound Hall, about 851 acres, from Gamston Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the Bothamsall Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they will NOT do family history lookups for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Bothamsall	Haughton
1801	235	41
1851	319	77
1861	296	-
1871	262	-
1881	264	-
1891	272	-
1901	242	51
1911	269	-

• The parish had its own National School by 1869.