Grove, Nottinghamshire
| Grove | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 School House, Grove | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK737797 |
| Location: | 53°18’32"N, 0°53’35"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 105 (2011) |
| Post town: | Retforrd |
| Postcode: | DN22 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Bassetlaw |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Grove is a small village, located about two miles south-west of Retford, in Nottinghamshire. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census is 105.
The parklands of Grove Hall separate Grove from Retford town, and a set of gates for Grove Hall can be found near the London Road, the A638.
The village itself is pleasant with wide verges along parts of the main road. The village once contained a garden centre, now built on, housed in the former kitchen gardens, of the Hall and there is also a very fine parish church.
History
The barony of Grove, with the manor of West Retford was part of the large property granted by William the Conqueror to Roger de Busli and is thus noted in Domesday survey, as "Grave".
From Roger de Busli it came to Gerbert (or Gilbert) de Arches, Baron de Grove, in the early part of the reign of Henry II. Gilbrt's great granddaughter, Theophania, being a co-heiress, carried it to Malvesinus de Hercy, in the reign of Henry III. It continued in the Hercy family till Sir John de Hercy bequeathed it to Barbara, one of his sisters, and co-heiress, who had married George Nevile of Ragnall, in whose family it continued till the latter end of the seventeenth century, when Sir Edward Nevile sold it to Sir Creswell Levinz, one of the Judges of the Common Pleas.
Sir Creswell Levinz was succeeded by his son, William Levinz, who resided at Grove and was MP for East Retford and afterwards for Nottinghamshire. This William Levinz left a son, William, who alienated the greatest part of his inheritance and sold the manor and estate of Grove, with its appurtenances in the year 1762, to Anthony Eyre of Rampton and Adwick.
Grove Hall, a large brick house with gable ends and mullion windows, had been erected at Grove, at a period which is not known, and had undergone considerable alterations. The house was demolished in 1952.
During the Wars of the Roses, the Hercy family, with their neighbours the Stanhopes, of Rampton, were active supporters of the House of Lancaster.
Parish church
The parish church is St Helen's, a small parish church with a squat tower which consists of a nave and chancel. The foundation is medieval but the current church is by C. Hodgson Fowler, dating from 1882.[1]
The church has a two manual pipe organ by Bevington dating from 1859. It was installed in St Helen's Church in 1894. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.[2]
Castle Hill Wood
By the village is a woodland known a Castle Hill Wood where, as its name suggests, there once stood a castle on a motte, which appears to have been surrounded by a double trench of considerable magnitude, with its entrance to the south-east. To the south-east of this motte is a piece of ground, now almost level, where the traces of foundations are discernible; this is surrounded by a moat both wide and deep having formerly circumscribed a mansion or castle, but of which no definite remains are now in existence. The greatest part of the extensive wood has a much older circumvallation by a trench or foss, in some instances double, which may be distinctly traced for upwards of a mile, believed to date from the Iron Age.
In 1684, when the inclosures between the bridge and town were first ploughed up, many Roman coins, of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine and other were found, together with intaglios of agate, and cornelian, the finest coloured urns, and paterae, some wrought in basso relievo, with the workman's name generally impressed on the inside of the bottom. Also found were a discus, or quoit, with an emperor's head embossed upon it. In 1718, two very handsomely moulded altars were dug up.
Outside links
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- Papers of the Eyre family; held at Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham
References
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1page 136
- ↑ Type R00970: National Pipe Organ Register
