Burton Joyce

The parish had the Carnarvon Reading Room in the early 1900s. This is now part of the Notts County Library System:
Burton Joyce Library
Meadow Lane
Burton Joyce
NG14 5EX Tele: (+44) (0) 11593-13360

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the Burton Joyce Library on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.

David HALLAM-JONES also has a photograph of the Burton Joyce Library on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2013.

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The Library at Southwell is a good alternative.

• The Burton Joyce Cemetery, opened for burials in 1879, following the closure of burials in the churchyard.
   
• John from Notts has a photograph of the Church Lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.
   
• John also has a photograph of the Whalebone arch in the graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2009.
   
• The Cemetery is managed by the Parish Council.
   

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen, built in the Early English style.
   
• The church was founded during the reign of Edward the Confessor.
   
• The church was restored in 1879.
   
• The church seats 220.
   
• The churchyard was closed to new burials in 1879, but older plots could be used to inter ashes.
   
• The Anglican parish chapel in Bulcote was rebuilt in 1862, replacing an ancient Saxon place of worship.
   
• John has an inside view of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2009.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1559 and has been kept in excellent condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Gedling.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here in 1824 and replaced it in 1908.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Methodist Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008.
   
• The Congregationalists had a chapel built here in 1869.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former Congregationalist Church in Lambley Lane on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008. It is now the United Reformed Church.
   

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

Burton Joyce is both a village and a parish on the River Trent, 135 miles north of London, about 5.5 miles north-east of Nottingham city and 9 miles south-west of Southwell. The parish covers 1,390 acres.

Bulcote is a small village and Chapelry often associated with this parish, although it was officially an extra-parochial area. It was also in a different Poorlaw Union (Southwell) and sat 1 mile north-east of Burton Joyce village.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A612 arteria road north-east out of Nottingham city. After about 5 miles, the A612 bisects the village of Burton Joyce.
   
• There is a train station at Burton Joyce, made considerably smaller in the 1960s. At last check, there was still passenger service from Nottingham or Newark-on-Trent.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

A flower and Poultry show was held on the first Monday in August.

The parish feast was held on the first Sunday after 11 October.

David LALLY has a photograph of the Wheatsheaf Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.

David also has a photograph of the Cross Keys Pub. on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2017.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK648438 (Lat/Lon: 52.987627, -1.036167), Burton Joyce 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 War Memorial was erected in the village centre. It was dedicated on 22 September 1922.  It is the locus of the annual Remembrance Day celebration.
   
• John has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST also has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2008. The memorial is at the crossroads of Nottingham Road and Lambley Lane.
   
• In December, 1908, Major Godfrey Trevelyan WILLIAMS of the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) retired and settled here. He can be found here in 1914 also. He wrote a book about the 11th Hussars, a unit which fought in the Crimean War, published in 1908.  The 11th Hussars were part of the Light Brigade Charge in October 1854.
   
• The Parish of Burton Joyce with Bulcote gallantly did its part and share in World War I. Of 122 men, 15 made the Great Sacrifice having fallen in action or have died through wounds or disease.
   

• John has a photograph of War Memorial Plaque #1 on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.
   
• And a photograph of War Memorial Plaque #2 on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.
   
• And a photograph of War Memorial Plaque #3 on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2008.

There are the 16 names listed on the War MemoriaI for World War I:

1. Edmund Reggie BLATHERWICK, pte. 25th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers
2. Alfred Henry BRYAN, pte. 1/1st Bn South Nottinghamshire Hussars
3. George Islip COY, pte. 1/8th Bn Sherwood Foresters
4. Francis Joseph FOSTER, pte. 15th Bn West Yorkshire Regt.
5. George Robert HAMMOND, pte. 10th Bn Sherwood Foresters
6. Frederick William HARDY, cprl. Royal Field Artillery
7. Arthur HUCKNALL, pte. 2nd Bn West Yorkshire Regt.
8. John William HUCKNALL, srgt. 17th Bn Sherwood Foresters
9. Richard Bernard HUCKNALL, pte. Army Service Corps
10. George JACKSON, pte. 1/7th Bn West Riding Regt.
11. Albert SHAW, gunner 270th Siege Bty Royal Garrison Artillery
12. Ernest SHAW, pte. Labour Corps
13. Henry William SHAW, pte. 2/6th Bn Sherwood Foresters
14. Harold Edward SIMPKIN, cprl. 2/8th Bn Sherwood Foresters
15. Charles Arthur STAPLETON, pte. 1/5th Bn South Staffs. Regt.
16. Cyril Charles WYATT, pte. Middlesex Regt.

Ask for copies of the Parish Magazine.

• The place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county but it did not become a modern Civil Parish until December, 1866. At that time Bulcote was separated into its own Civil Parish.
   
• The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Thurgaton Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Burton Joyce Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• In 1974, the parish joined the new Gedling Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Nottingham petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1770.
   
• Around 1786, the parish built a poorhouse for the united parishes of Gedling, Burton Joyce and Shelford. It was taken down in 1839 except for a small portion converted into a cottage.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   
• The Bulcote extra-parochial area became a part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Burton Joyce	Bulcote
1801	447	148
1821	508	-
1841	610	-
1851	690	83
1861	698	136
1881	668	111
1901	931	93

• A National School was built here in 1868.