Hawksworth

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The Community Library at Bingham is also an excellent resource.

• 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 Mary and All Saints.
   
• The church is of Norman origin, founded in the 12th century.
   
• Documents refer to an earlier church dedicated to Saint Edmund.
   
• The church was almost completely rebuilt in 1851.
   
• The clock was added to the tower in 1873 when the third bell was fitted.
   
• The church seats 180.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Mary and All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2007.
   
• Jonathan THACKER also has a photograph of St. Mary and All Saints' Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   
• J. THOMAS has a good photograph of the Church tower on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2012.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1553.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) covers Hawksworth baptisms for the period 1765 - 1836. Marriages for the period 1813 - 1836 are also covered.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here in 1883. That chapel has since been converted to a private home.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of the former Wesleyan Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.
   

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

The village stands in the Vale of Belvoir 4 miles north-east of Bingham, 9 miles south-west of Newark-on-Trent and 125 miles north of London.

If you are planning a visit:

• Start your visit in Nottingham and ask the local tourist office how to find Hawksworth.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of Hawksworth Manor House on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2011.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK752434 (Lat/Lon: 52.982676, -0.881368), Hawksworth 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.

A World War One War Memorial is a marble tablet honoring the three lads from the parish who perished in the Great War. The inscription can be seen at the Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project website.

There is one Commonwealth War Grave in St. Mary's churchyard for World War I:

1. Albert Roland KERRIDGE, priv., 7th Btn. Norfolk Regt., age 22, died 18 Mar. 1919. Son of Rev. Albert Alfred KERRIDGE and Mrs. Evangeline KERRIDGE of Aslockton.

These are the villagers who died in World War One:

• lance corporal George HOWARD

• private Albert Roland KERRIDGE

• private William Alfred KERRIDGE

You will often find the village and parish listed as "Hawkesworth" (with the extra "e") in older records.

Prior to 1700, you will likely find the name listed as "Hocheword".

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in north division of the ancient Bingham Wapentake in the eastern (or southern) part of the county.
   
• In March, 1889, this parish was reduced by 56 acres given to Thoroton Civil Parish.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and have instead decided to have Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1761.
   
• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings every other Thursday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	154
1851	171
1861	176
1871	167
1881	158
1891	147
1901	173
1911	153
1921	135