Sutton Bonington St. Anne

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

Stuart WILDING has a photograph of St. Anne's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.

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

Census Year	Piece No.
1861	R.G. 9 / 2278
1871	R.G. 10 / 3259

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Anne (Ann).
   
• The church appears to be of 13th century origin and Early English in style.
   
• The church was restored in 1860.
   
• The church chancel was renovated in 1878.
   
• The church was restored again in 1903.
   
• The church seats 150.
   
• Stuart WILDING has a photograph of St. Anne's Church on Geo-graph, taken in May, 2014.

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1662 for all entries.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1600-1829.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of West Bingham.
   
• The East Leake and District Local History Society has a number of records availalbe and will do lookups. Be specific; they do not have time to find all occurances of a surname in all their records.
   
• In 1704 the Baptists built a chapel here for 200 worshipers.
   
• In 1832 the parish had chapel built for Primitive Methodists seating 150.
   
• In 1868 the Wesleyen Methodists built a chapel here for 250 worshipers.
   
• In 1894 the Free Methodists built a chapel here for 200 worshipers.
   
• Tim HEATON has a photograph of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2008.
   

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

This parish and the two villages of St. Anne and St. Michael are in southwest Nottinghamshire and lie about 120 miles north of London, 6 miles north of Loughborough (in Leicestershire) and 10 miles due south of Nottingham city. The River Soar passes through the parish.

The village sits along a small brook that flows into the River Soar at Kingston. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A60 arterial road north out of Loughborough toward Nottingham. At Costock, turn left (west) for East Leake and continue on to West Leake.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Sutton Bonington St. Anne to another place.

• The parish has a long history of ringing the church bell for curfew in the winter months.
   
• The village feast was held on the first Sunday after St. Michael's Day (September 29) or on that day if it fell on a Sunday or Monday.
   
• The King's Head Public House dates back several hundred years. The King's Head Public House was a popular conversation spot. You can visit their Facebook page at: King's Head. The Pub. is located at 75 Main Street.
   
• J. THOMAS has a photograph of the Kings Head pub on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   
• These are the names associated with the King's Head in various directories:

Year	Proprietor
1858	George DOMLEO
1869	William HALLAM
1881	Thomas PIERPOINT
1904	George POWELL
1912	Joseph SLADE

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK507254 (Lat/Lon: 52.823755, -1.249047), Sutton Bonington St. Anne 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.

In 1904, Lt.-Col. Sir George Ernest PAGET resided in Sutton-Hall. Saint Anne's Hall was the residence of Major Charles Richard TENNANT.

In 1915, the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College had a "main building" erected. However on completion the government requisitioned it to be an officer prisoner of war site for German Officers for the duration of the first world war.

Malcolm NEAL has a photograph of the Midland Agricultural and Dairy College building on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2019.

In the church there is a memorial to Admiral Sir William KING-HALL, K.C.B., who died in July, 1886, at age 70.

• The parish was in southern division of the ancient Rushcliffe Wapentake (Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Sutton Bonnington Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT staffed to do family history research for you.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

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

A National Endowed School (mixed) was built here in 1844 by Henry TATE.

The University of Nottingham has established a Dairy Innovation Centre just north of the village.