Selston

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the graveyard at St. Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.

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

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Helen.
   
• The church was built of stone in 1150 in the Early English style.
   
• The church was restored and enlarged in 1899 and again in 1904-05.
   
• The church seats 450.
   
• Katy WATERS has a photograph of St Helen's Church on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2005.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Church tower overlooking the churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in November, 2014.
   
• The church of Saint Michael and All Angels was built in Underwood in 1888-89 in the Gothic style.
   
• The church of Saint Michael and All Angels seats 400.
   
• Garth NEWTON has a photograph of Underwood Church and its Lychgate on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2005.
   
• A church for the district of Pye Hill, Jacksdale and Westwood was built and consecrated in Aug. 1899.
   
• This church seated 360.
   

• The parish register dates from 1557.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1557-1875.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Mansfield.
   
• The following Non-conformist churches and chapel have existed in the parish: Calvinist, Baptist, Primitive Methodists and Free Church chapels.
   
• Christine JOHNSTONE has a photograph of the Christians Meeting House from 1899 on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2017.
   
• The Congregational chapel was founded in 1670.
   

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

HM Prison, Nottingham, is located in Bagthorpe township. It is a Category B local prison, holding convicted and remand adult males from the local courts in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. It opened in 1890 as a city gaol.

This large village and parish is 143 miles north of London and 12 miles north-west of Nottingham. The parish sits on the Derbyshire border. The parish covers 3,318 acres and includes the hamlets of Bagthorpe, Underwood, Hand Stubbing, Westwood and Woodnook. Jacksdale (or Jack's Dale) is a village in the parish.

Selston is divided from Derbyshire by the Erewash River. If you are planning a visit:

• Selston lies off the M1 motorway north of Nottingham. Turn off at the B6018 arterial crossing.
   
• Visit the website for Jacksdale for local color.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

In 1830, in Bagthorpe, an urn full of ancient coins was found.

David LALLY has a photograph of The Bull & Butcher pub. on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2008.

J. THOMAS has a photograph of The Crown Inn on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.

Richard VINCE has a photograph of the Dixies Arms Pub. in Bagthorpe on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2018.

Stephen McKAY has a photograph of The Horse and Jockey in Church Lane on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2016.

Jonathan CLITHEROE has a photograph of the White Hart public house on Selston Common on Geo-graph, taken in January, 2019.

Steve FAREHAM has a photograph of The White Lion on Selston Common on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2007.

J. THOMAS has a photoraph of the Shepherd's Rest in Bagthorpe on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2010.

Jean DURBIN reports that in the Derby Mercury newspaper for 18 Oct 1854: "Trespassing in pursuit of game: Gervis GILL & G. SMITHURST were charged by Henry ROWSON gamekeeper to James OAKES Esq. with trespassing on Selston Common in pursuit of game. GILL was convicted to pay 1 pound and costs 10 shillings & 6 pence & SMITHURST 2 pounds and costs 10 shillings & 6 pence."

• Wansley Hall, the former seat of the WANDESLEY family, is in Bagthorpe.
   
• Robert HOWL has a photograph of Wansley Hall on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK467530 (Lat/Lon: 53.0722, -1.304436), Selston 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.

• Alan SLATER has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2006. The memorial is in Jacksdale on the main road.
   
• Selston village has a War Memorial that was unveiled in July 2014. The Portland stone obelisk has six sides at its base with the names of more than 80 local servicemen who died in the two world wars being carved in grey granite. One panel bears the names of Selston’s World War Two fatalities.
   

These are the names from the 2014 War Memorial:

1. Sidney Adams
2. Thomas William Andrews
3. Archibald Askin
4. Albert Bacon
5. Alfred Bacon
6. Ambrose Bacon
7. William Ball
8. Thomas Banton
9. Joseph Barker
10. George Thomas Barnes
11. John William Bowmar
12. Charles Butcher
13. Cecil Clark
14. George Clarke
15. William Clifford
16. Robert Shelton Cook
17. Albert Cooke
18. Thomas Edward Creswick
19. George William Day
20. Wilfred Dean
21. George Dobbs
22. Harry Dove
23. William Heath Dunn
24. Albert Fearn
25. Albert Henry Gell
26. Edward Gent
27. William Gilder
28. Robert Grainger
29. James William Gregory
30. Reginald Lee Hand
31. Joseph Hankin
32. Arthur Henry Harpham
33. Thomas Edward Hawkins
34. Henry Heald
35. Henry Heald
36. Benjamin Hopewell
37. Bernard J. Hudson
38. Harry Joseph Jeffs
39. Joseph Alfred Jones
40. William Leonard Jones
41. Arthur Keeling
42. Samuel Kirk
43. Clarence Kirkland
44. Samuel Edward Lee
45. Christopher Lewis
46. Harry Lines
47. Francis Harold Marshall
48. William Edward Maxey
49. Alfred Miles
50. Arthur Edward Mills
51. John Lionel Nichols
52. John Harris Oates
53. Harry Palmer
54. Laurence Thomas Parker
55. Herbert Peach
56. James Platts
57. John Price
58. John William Priestley
59. William Prothero
60. William Rawson
61. Frank Reed
62. John Walter Revill
63. James Sheavyn
64. Joseph Henry Simpson Sheriston
65. John William Shipman
66. John George Slack
67. John Smedley
68. John Tom Stocks
69. Norman Robert Stoppard
70. Cyril Percy Storer
71. Thomas William Tagg
72. William Wilson Taylor
73. Arthur Timms
74. Horace Timms
75. Thomas Timms
76. William Henry Timms
77. Joseph Harold Trueman
78. Arthur Henry Walker
79. Herbert G. Walters
80. William Walton
81. John Thomas Ward
82. Ernest Victor Wheatley
83. David Wightman
84. George Willmott

You can find each of these men listed on the Nottingham County War Memorial page, where you can click on the name and get more details.

The parish was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Salistune".

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• For governance, the parish was in the north division of the ancient Broxtowe Hundred or Wapentake in the Northern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the Selston Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded to do family history searches for you.
   
• David LALLY has a photograph of Selston Parish Council Office on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2008.
   
• Meil THEASBY has a photograph of the Parish Hall on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2021.
   
• District governance is provided by the Ashfield District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Mansfield petty session hearings held at the Police Court every week.
   
• Three cottages in Selston village were provided for the poor by the parish.
   
• Lady DIXIE left 6s. per annum to be distributed to the poor.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the Basford Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1831	1,321
1851	2,101
1861	2,628
1871	3,670
1881	4,373
1891	5,267
1901	7,071
1911	8,982
1921	9,285
2001	12,208

• The National School here was built by the Butterley Iron Company some time before 1869.
   
• Selston had a Public Elementary School (mixed) built here in 1865 and enlarged in 1892 to hold 420 students and 210 infants.
   
• The Underwood mixed and infants school was built in 1870 and enlarged in 1895.
   
• The Portland Row Infants School here was built in 1879.
   
• The Bagthorpe Infants School here was built in 1872 and enlarged in 1902 to take up to 180 infants.
   
• The Jacksdale Infants School was opened in 1908 as a temporary school.
   
• The Westwood Infants School was built in 1872 and enlarged in 1899 for up to 200 children.
   

"This memorial was erected to commemorate the lives of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country."