Sturton le Steeple

Although the Gainsborough Library is closer, the Library at East Retford will prove more useful in your research.

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

• The Anglican parish church was dedicated to Saint Peter (most sources say: St. Peter and St. Paul).
   
• Despite the village name, the church has no steeple, but it does have a massive tower.
   
• The earliest date reported for the church is 1180.
   
• The tower dates from the 14th century.
   
• The church was damaged by an extensive fire in February, 1901, and was rebuilt in 1901-02.
   
• There is a photograph of the Churchyard on the Red1st website, showing the impressive tower.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the parish church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2006.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1647 and is in good condition.
   
• Nottinghamshire Family History Society CD-ROM covering Sturton le Steeple has the following: Baptisms - No Coverage; Marriage Index - 1554-1900; Burials - 1813-1879.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery No. 1 of Retford.
   
• The church is now in the Bassetlaw and Bawtry Deanery.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists had a chapel here by 1869.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the former Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2014.

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

Sturton is a village, a township and a parish within the parliamentary borough of East Retford. It lies 6.5 miles north-east of East Retford, 5.5 miles south-west of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire and 144 miles north of London. The parish covers about 4,400 acres and includes the hamlet of Fenton and the old village of Littleborough.

Today, there is a large power station to the north of the village. The River Trent lies not far to the west. If you are planning a visit:

• Sturton le Steeple lies between the A620 and the A156 trunk roads, south-west of Gainsborough.
   
• Although a railway line runs along the western edge of Sturton le Steeple, it appears the nearest passenger service is to either East Retford or Gainsborough.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the village sign on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012. When you see this, you are there!
   
• Barbara Whiteman has a photograph collection of Sturton le Steeple on the Pictures of England web site.

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sturton le Steeple to another place.

Henry HINDS was baptised in Sturton in 1750. He was buried here on 3rd December 1805 (Carpenter) aged 55 - Son Of the Late George HINDS & Mary.

His mother, Mary HINDS, widow of late George HINDS (Carpenter) aged 91, was buried January 29th 1806.

• Neil THEASBY has a photograph of The Reindeer Inn on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2015 .
   
• This pub was renamed in 1895, it was originally called the 'Stag'.
   
• These are the names associated with the place in various directories:
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK787838 (Lat/Lon: 53.34525, -0.819327), Sturton le Steeple 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 war memorial cross just outside the parish church. This cross was unveiled in June, 1921. There is a brass plaque inside the church, unveiled 4th February 1920.
   
• Ian S. has a photograph of the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.
   
• Ian S. has a second photograph showing the names on the War Memorial on Geo-graph, taken in July, 2012.

There is a memorial in the church to Colonel Francis THORNHAUGH (killed in 1648).  The colonel's Regiment of Horse was based at Nottingham in the English Civil War.

These are the twenty four parishioners noted on the two WWI memorials:

• This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the North Clay division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• In April, 1935, this parish gained 345 acres from the abolition of Littleborough Civil Parish.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is the provenance of the Bassetlaw District Council.

• Bastardy cases would be heard at the Retford petty session hearings held in West Retford.
   
• In 1708, Francis HOPKINSON left a charity of about £19 per year which was distributed to the poor at Christmas in the form of clothing.
   
• The Common Lands were enclosed in 1823.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, this parish became a part of the East Retford Poor Law Union.

Year	Inhabitants
1801	509
1821	605
1851	637
1861	583
1871	593
1881	529
1891	505
1901	457

• There was a National School here before 1869.
   
• The National School here was completely rebuilt in 1879 to hold 160 children.