Wallingwells

The Library at Worksop will prove useful in your research.

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

• The old Benedictine nunnery was known as "de Parco de Carleton" and was founded in King Stephen's reign (in the 1140s) to honor the Virgin Mary. In later years it was known as "St. Mary of Wallendwells".
   
• The priory was surrendered on 14 December 1539.
   
• There is no Anglican church in Wallingwells and no record of one in the old Directories. Many residents used the church in Carlton-in-Lindrick.
   

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

Wallingwells is a hamlet and a parish 4.5 miles north-west of Worksop. 352 acres of the parish are in Yorkshire and 390 are in Nottinghamshire. In 1861, the border was marked by a long row of trees. Quoting Wikipedia: "The parish is one of the few in England still to have an exclave - in this case a small section of land separated from the parish by the Carlton in Lindrick parish."

If you are planning a visit to the village:

• The village is just north of the A57 trunk road heading north-west out of Worksop.
   
• Martin DAWES has a photograph of No Name Lake on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

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

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

• Sir Thomas WHITE of this parish was High Sheriff of the county in 1833.
   

• Wallingwells Hall dates back to the early 17th century.
   
• Wallingwells Hall was the mansion of Sir Thomas Wollaston WHITE, baronet, in 1881. It was built from material taken from the ruins of the former Benedictine nunnery in the parish.
   
• In 1886 Wallingwells Hall was split into four private homes. The adjoining estate offices and servants' wing were converted into 3 cottages.
   
• Marten DAWES has a photograph of Wallingwells Hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2012.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.
   

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK570841 (Lat/Lon: 53.350837, -1.145752), Wallingwells 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.

• The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry was raised in the summer of 1794 as the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry, by Thomas WHITE of Wallingwells, who financed and housed the regiment at his own cost.
   
• Thomas WHITE was created a baronet by King George III in 1802 for twice raising, clothing and arming a regiment of militia during the Napoleonic Wars. The first regiment was known as the "Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry Cavalry" and is still in existence as "S" squadron Royal Yeomanry.
   
• There appears to be no War Memorial for Wallingwells, perhaps because there is no church.
   

• This place was anciently an extra-parochial area, mostly in Nottinghamshire and anciently part of Carlton-in-Lindrick parish.
   
• This place was established as a modern Civil Parish in December, 1858.
   
• The parish was in the Hatfield division of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
   
• The parish is partly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but mostly in Nottinghamshire, and within the parliamentary borough of East Retford.
   
• In August, 1882, this parish was reduced by giving the Grange and Red Barn portion to Carlton-in-Lindrick Civil Parish.
   
• In March, 1885, this parish was reduced by giving part of the North Moor to Carlton-in-Lindrick Civil Parish. In return, this parish gained the Birch Hills portion of that other parish.
   
• The parish is small enough that it has no Parish Council, but the citizens do hold regular Parish Meetings to decide civil and governance issues.
   
• From 1894 through 1925, the parish was part of the Blyth and Cuckney Regional District.
   
• The parish is currently part of the Bassetlaw District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Worksop petty session hearings.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Worksop Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	29
1841	36
1851	38
1861	25
1881	32
1891	29
1901	18