Alverton
| Alverton | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK793422 |
| Location: | 52°58’17"N, -0°49’8"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG13 |
| Dialling code: | 01949 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Newark and Sherwood |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Alverton is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, half a mile south-west of Kilvington and south-east of Flawborough. It contains just 22 houses and surrounded by farmland.
The hamlet is just over half a mile from the River Devon which marks the border with Leicestershire; a narrow finger of the latter county so that the border of Lincolnshire is a mile beyond.
Alverton has no shops or places of worship. The nearest Anglican church is St Mary's in Staunton and the nearest Methodist church at Long Bennington (four miles away). The nearest shopping centres are Bingham and Newark. The closest pubs are the Staunton Arms at Staunton and the Durham Ox at Orston.
History
Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in the Newark Wapentake. It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Alvretun and Alvritun. The township was recorded in 1832 as having only 16 inhabitants. It had been enclosed in 1806. The Lord of the Manor was recorded as Rev. Dr. Staunton, and its "two farmers" as Robert Cross and Charles Neale.[1] In 1870–72 it had seven houses and a population of 40.[2]
Legends
The former Staunton Church of England School in the village is now a private house, said to be haunted by a teacher once murdered there. There have been two purported sightings of a ghost at another house, The Chestnuts, each describing the figure of an elderly lady in Victorian garb, thought to be a former sempstress to Queen Victoria, Mary Brown, who had returned to Alverton as housekeeper to her widowed brother and ruled his four children "with a rod of iron".[3]
Outside links
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- Alverton in the Domesday Book
- Alverton history in Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire..., 1790. {{brithist|76000 Retrieved 5 January 2014.]
References
- ↑ White's Directory, 1832 Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ Vision of Britain Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ The Nottinghamshire Village Book. Compiled from materials submitted by Women's Institutes in the County (Newbury/Newark: Countryside Books/NFWI), p. 9.