Kneeton

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The Library at Bingham is also a useful source for your research.

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

• 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 Helen.
   
• The date of original construction is unreported.
   
• The church was restored in 1879 - 1880.
   
• The church seats 100.
   
• The church is a Grade II structure with English Heritage.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2008.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Church of St. Helen's tower and south porch on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• Tom COURTNEY also has a photograph of Church of St. Helen on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• Richard CROFT also has a photograph of St. Helen's Church interior on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1592, but the early years are in poor condition.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
   
• John MELLORS provides this marriage extracted from the parish register of 1860:

Marriage entry 33 on 28 May 1860
Samuel WATSON aged 21 bach bleacher of Basford nr Nottingham son of Samuel WATSON labourer
  and
Elizabeth LACEY aged 20 spin servant of Caythorpe in the parish of Lowdham dau of Robert LACEY labourer but lately dead.
In the presence of William WATSON & Ann ARMSTRONG.

John MELLORS has started a Parish Register Extract that may provide some answers for you.

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

Kneeton is a village and a parish on the east bank of the River Trent, across the river from Hoveringham, 5 miles north of Bingham, 8 miles south-west of Newark-on-Trent and 5 miles east of Lowdham. The parish covers 983 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A52 trunk road out of Nottingham or Grantham. Turn north on to the A46 trunk road and proceed about 4 miles. The village of Kneeton will be on your left.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK711460 (Lat/Lon: 53.006603, -0.941854), Kneeton 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 framed Roll of Honour on the north wall of the parish church nave.

The one known WWI Casualty was: Thomas SCOFFIELD, a driver in the Royal Field Artillery who died in 1917.

The other 17 names listed on the church War Memorial are:

1. Daft, Richard Baker
2. Dickenson, Albert
3. Hart, Norman Nayler
4. Harwood, Charles
5. Herring, Arthur
6. Herring, William H.
7. Marvin, Charles
8. Neal, Charles James
9. Neale, John Story
10. Parkes, George
11. Rowley, A. I. F.
12. Rowley, Herbert Victor
13. Shipman, Arthur E.
14. Shipman, James
15. Shipman, Leslie
16. Shipman, William
17. Towns, John

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the ancient Bingham Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and instead have 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 every other Thursday.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	88
1851	109
1861	116
1871	117
1881	115
1891	115
1901	113
1911	113
1921	103

• A parish school was built here in 1871.
   
• Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of The old school on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012. The school has been long closed.