Elton (Elton on the Hill)

The Community Library at Bingham is also an excellent resource.

The church is located in the centre of the churchyard and there are burials on all sides.

Ian S. has a photograph of St. Michael's churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2020.

Alongside the south wall of the church chancel is the listed chest tomb commemorating the Rev Abel Collin LAUNDER, who was rector of Elton from 1750 until his death in 1803, and his wife, Margaret, who died in 1780.

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the chest tomb of Margaret and Abel Collin LAUNDER on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2019.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a Belvoir Angel gravestone on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
   
• the church was built in Norman times. The 1086 Domesday Book mentions a church here.
   
• The South Aisle was demolished in 1786.
   
• The church was restored and the tower rebuilt in 1857.
   
• The church was restored again in 1909.
   
• The church seats 90.
   
• Bob DANYLEC has a photograph of Saint Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2005.
   
• And ALAN MURRAY-RUST has a slightly different view of Saint Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• In March 2017 Elton and five other ecclesiastical parishes merged to become the parish of Wiverton in the Vale.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1592, but some early sections are illegible.
   
• The church was in the East Bingham Deanery.
   

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

This small village and parish lie near the Leicestershire border in the Vale of Belvoir. 5 miles east-south-east of Bingham and 10 miles north-west of Grantham. The parish covers almost 1,000 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road east out of Nottingham toward Grantham.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Elton (Elton on the Hill) to another place.

• The village feast was on the Sunday after old Michaelmas day (October 10th).
   
• In 1616 the villagers of Elton were outraged when one Richard UPTON, a local inhabitant, was arrested by two of the sheriff’s bailiffs while in the church one Sunday during a sermon, and there was ‘a great outrage in the churchyard there’. Despite this upset however, it appears that the arrest was not overturned.
   
• In 1780, the parish clerk, while digging a grave in the churchyard, found over 200 silver pennies from the reign of Henry II (1154 1189).
   
• The Norton's Arms Public House was the best place to catch up on local news.
   
• These are the names associated with the Norton's Arms Inn in various directories:
   

Elton Manor was a large brick-built house with considerable additions by different owners. It stood in a park of 41 acres and was demolished in the 1930s.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK767388 (Lat/Lon: 52.941122, -0.860118), Elton (Elton on the Hill) 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.

An electric clock was installed in the church tower in 1969. The plaque for it reads:

"To the Glory of God and in affectionate memory of William Noel Parr and Hilda Mary Grace, his wife, the Church Clock was installed in 1969 by relations, friends and parishioners. Noel Parr was the Southwell Diocesan Registrar, the Bishop’s Legal Secretary and Churchwarden of this Church for more than a quarter of a century until his retirement in 1956 to Hampshire, where they both died in 1967. They were the great friends and providers of this Church and Village."

There is no War Memorial in the church.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the north division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings held every other Thursday.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1808.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

In 1743 a religious visitation report made to Archbishop Herring reported that there were only 15 families residing in the village.

Year	Population
1801	90
1841	81
1851	79
1881	76
1891	73
1901	51

The children of this parish attended school in Granby parish.