Hoveringham

The Library at Newark-on-Trent will prove useful in your research.

The Nottingham Library would also be a good resource.

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

• There was a church with a priest here at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1066.
   
• This early church was replaced in the 14th century with a larger building.
   
• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Michael and All Angels.
   
• The original church was one of the most ancient in the county. It was rebuilt, on the same site, in 1848. The style is early French Gothic.
   
• The church seats 230.
   
• The church has only had two or three services a month since 2012 because of diminished attendance.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Michael's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1553 for baptisms, 1560 for marriages and 1567 for burials. The early registers are in bad condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   
• The Primitive Methodists had a chapel built here in 1834.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel built here prior to 1869.
   

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

Hoveringham is both a village and a parish near the Trent River, about 5 miles south from Southwell, 1.5 miles east of Lowdham, 10 miles north-east of Nottingham and 140 miles north of London. The parish is between Nottingham city and Newark-on-Trent. The parish covers 934 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, The village is just off the old Roman Foss Way (now the A46 trunk road). But it is easier to take the A612 north out of Lowdham (or, starting further south, north out of Nottingham city) and at Gonalston, turn east (right) to Hoveringham.
   
• At last report, there is no passenger rail service to Hoveringham.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

A yachting lake was established at the northeast end of the parish in the lowlands (a former gravel pit) next to the River Trent. Ian PATERSON has a photograph of the Lake with dinghies at Notts County Sailing Club on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2006.

• Roman pottery has been found in the parish.
   
• The parish had a ferry crossing on the Trent River to Kneeston.
   
• The Trent River flooded the parish in 1636 and again in early 1795.
   
• Flooding continues to be a worry. The Trent overflowed again in 1997 and 2000. Check with authorities if you have any concerns during your visit.
   
• The parish festival was held on the Sunday after Old Michaelmas Day (29th September)
   
• Sand and gravel was quarried here for decades.
   
• Graham HOGG has a photograph of the Water's Edge and The Old Elm Tree Inn on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK698465 (Lat/Lon: 53.011267, -0.961116), Hoveringham 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.
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In the north-west corner of the church is a large double alabaster tomb to the memory of Sir Robert GOUSHILL and his wife Elizabeth FITZALAN. Close by the tomb is a framed document explaining its history:

THE ALABASTER TOMB
The recumbent effigies are those of Sir Robert Goushill and his wife Elizabeth Fitzalan, grand-daughter of King Edward I and sister of Thomas 15th Duke of Arundel
Elizabeth married Robert Goushill of Hoveringham in 1401, after the death of her second
husband Thomas Mowbury Duke of Norfolk in the previous year.
In 1403 Robert was wounded fighting for Henry VI at the Battle of Shrewsbury. For his
conduct on the field Robert was knighted, before being treacherously stabbed to death by his servant.
The Knight wears a camail and huaberk of mail with plate armour upon arms and legs.
The collar, which shows his Lancastrian allegiance, and the elaborate sword-belt, are both well preserved.
His head surmounted by a bascinet, with its wreath, rests upon his haulm with its device of
a Saracens head.
The Duchess is clothed as a peeress with a coronet denoting her rank.

There is also a marble tablet on the south wall of the church (the date of 119th Jan. 1787 is as reported by the Southwell Church History Project):

Sacred to the memory of The Rev. Kaye Mawer MA Rector of Westbere in Yorkshire Curate of the Perpetual Curacy of Thurgarton and Hoveringham in the county of Nottingham and twenty five years chaplain to the First Royal Regiment of Foot Son of the Rev. John Mawer DD Of Middleton Tyer in Yorkshire He died November the 11th. 1799 Aged 63 year Sarah his wife died the 18th. Jan. 1786 In her 38th year and his wife died 7th. Feb. 1828 aged 65 John Mawer died Jan. 16th 1779 Kaye Mawer a midshipman in the Royal Navy Whose mother is buried at Pentrich in Derbyshire Died 119th. Jan. 1787 in the 17th.year of his age Bridget Mawer died 13th. Aug. 1791 aged 11 months The family Mawer or Mawr are descended From the Ancient British ----- of this island Their direct ancestor being Roderick Youngest Brother of Llewelyn Mawer or Llewelyn the Great The last reigning Prince of Wales

There is also an ornate marble tablet on the south wall of the church:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LIEUTT GENERAL HENRY HUTHWAITE OF THE BENGAL ARMY HE SERVED IN INDIA DURING A PERIOD OF XXX YEARS IN THE COURSE OF WHICH TIME HE DISCHARGED WITH ABILITY THE DUTIES OF AIDE–DE-CAMP AND PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. HE WAS COLONEL OF THE CALCUTTA NATIVE MILITIA, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MYSORE PRINCES, AND PERSIAN INTERPRETER TO THE SUPREME COURT. HE RETURNED TO ENGLAND IN MDCCCXXVII AND DIED AT HOVERINGHAM ON VTH OF DECEMBER MDCCCLIII IN THE LXXXIVTH YEAR OF HIS AGE THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN GRATEFUL REMBERANCE OF HIM BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE.

• The Yachting Lake in Hoveringham parish is the site of two different Lancaster bomber crashes in 1945.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Hoveringham Lancaster Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2010.
   
• The Ham class minesweeper HMS Hoveringham was named after the village.
   

For a photograph of the Hoveringham War Memorial in the church and the list of names on it, see the Southwell Churches History Project site. They are:

1. Thomas Arthur DERRY, Notts and Derbys
2. Walter HALE, Grenadier Guards
3. William MOISEY, Notts and Derbys
4. Richard Inger MOZLEY, Yorks and Lancs
5. Leslie SADLER, South Notts Hussars
6. Arthur Henry SHARP, Grenadier Guards
7. Geoffrey SMITH, Notts and Derbys
8. Harold Victor WALTERS, Notts and Derbys
9. Frank WILCOX, Notts and Derbys

1939 to 1945

1. Pte. George Samuel ALLWOOD, Northamptonshire Regt.
2. Pilot Albert C. SUMMERS, Fleet Air Arm

The name William MOISEY, above, appears as William WRAGG in most public records, however his step-father insisted on his stepson being remembered as MOISEY, the step-father's surname.

The county also has a photograph of the Hoveringham church War Memorial and the list of names on it. See the Nottinghamshire county website.

Derek DYE has a photograph of a Lancaster memorial on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2010.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Southwell division of the Thurgarton Hundred (or Wapentake) in the southern section of Nottinghamshire.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded to assist you with family history searches.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Southwell petty session hearings.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	324
1851	408
1861	387
1871	331
1881	328
1891	384
1901	311
1911	359
1921	342

• A National School was built here in 1851. This later became the Parochial School.
   
• A Chapel School was built here in 1875 to hold 80 children.