Carburton

The Library at Mansfield will prove useful in your research.

The Library at Worksop can also assist in your search.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the church graveyard on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2018.

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

• The church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church is believed to date from the Saxon period.
   
• The church was considered a Chapel of Ease until 1867.
   
• Michael PATTERSON has a photograph of St. Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2006.
   
• Neal THEASBY has a photograph of abandoned St. Giles Church on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2016.
   
• The church closed for services in 2017.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1537 for baptisms, and 1540 for marriages and burials.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Worksop.
   

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

Carburton is a small village, a township, a chapelry and a parish on the River Poulter, 4 miles south-east of Worksop. The parish covers 2,276 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the B6034 south out of Worksop about 2.5 miles and turn left onto the county road about a mile before you reach the A616 arterial roadway.
   
• There is Golfing for the enthusiast.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• This place was once a Roman settlement.
   
• This place was deep in Sherwood Forest.
   

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2015.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK606733 (Lat/Lon: 53.253005, -1.093412), Carburton 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 Roll of Honour in St. Gile's Church showing the names of 22 parishioners from Carburton who served in the 'Great War' including those of the two fallen. The names of the fallen are annotated with a red cross.

The two fallen men from the Roll of Honour are:

1. pte. Joseph DOLBY, 1st Btln. Sherwood Foresters, died 11 March 1915
2. pte. Charles Henry WILSON, 2/6th Btln. Sherwood Foresters

The other 20 names listed served and survived WWI:

1. Anderson, H. (probably Henry ANDERSON)
2. Chambers, G. A.
3. Chambers, W.
4. Chapman, L. (Probably Leonard CHAPMAN)
5. Cooper, G. W.
6. Dalby, J. (This is likely Joe. DOLBY, above)
7. Flintoff, H. (probably Harold FLINTOFF)
8. Flintoff, K.
9. Grass, C.
10. Grass, M. (probably Matthew GRASS)
11. Harvey, E. A.
12. Hunt, D.
13. Hunt, T.
14. Hurn, B.
15. Marlow, J. H. (probably John Henry MARLOW)
16. Motley, A.
17. Pottinger, J. A. (probably James Andrew POTTINGER)
18. Rudderham, O. (probably Oswald T. RUDDERHAM)
19. Sale, J. A. (probably James Andrew SALE)
20. Walker, A. (probably Albert WALKER)
21. Williamson, D. (probably David WILLIAMSON)

• This place was an ancient township and Chapelry in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish in December of 1866.
   
• As a Chapelry, this place was in Edwinstowe parish.
   
• The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish hold periodic Parish Meeting to hash out civic and political issues - there is no formal Parish Council.
   
• District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Worksop petty session hearings.
   
• The Common Lands were not enclosed here until 1818.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1861	177
1871	160
1881	191
1891	157
1901	148
1911	141
1921	150
1931	148

A school was established here in 1872. Mrs. Harriett PALMER was the schoolmistress.