Scarrington
| Scarrington | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 St John of Beverley, Scarrington | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK735415 |
| Location: | 52°57’57"N, -0°54’25"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 183 (2011) |
| Post town: | Nottingham |
| Postcode: | NG13 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rushcliffe |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Scarrington is a village in the south of Nottinghamshire, in Bingham Wapentake, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. It had a recoded population of 183 in 2011.
The village sits in the undulating farmland of the Vale of Belvoir, some two miles from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of a road lying atop the Roman Fosse Way (the A46) between Newark and Leicester.
Scarrington is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham.
Name
Scarrington may contain the Old English word, scearnig meaning dirty, filthy or mucky, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; or an estate, so perhaps "Dirty farm or settlement".[1][2]
Churches
The parish church, the Church of St John of Beverley, is a 13th-century building restored by J. H. Hakewill in 1867–1869, is Grade I listed.[3][4]
The belfry has three bells dated 1450.[5]
A Methodist chapel was built in 1818.[6]
Scarrington Methodist Church in Main Street has a 6 pm service on alternate Sundays and a monthly Bible study session. It belongs to the Grantham and Vale of Belvoir Circuit.[7]
History
A flint sickle blade found at Scarrington in 1981 was dated to the late Neolithic age.[8] There is also evidence that Scarrington was inhabited in Roman times (2nd–3rd century AD), in the shape of tools and remains of a villa. These were found while laying a water pipe in February/March 1991 between the village and Car Colston.[9]
Scarrington is noted in Domesday Book in 1086 as "Scarintone" and as belonging to the King. It had 27 households.[10]
Scarrington and Aslockton shared several landowners and could be covered by a joint Inclosure Act in 1781.[11] The population of Scarrington was 152 in 1801, 171 in 1821, and 188 in 1831.[12]
The size of the village changed little from the time of enclosure up to the 20th century, when some building took place northward along Hawksworth Road. A few working farms remain, but most inhabitants commute to work or school.
The village lies mainly within a conservation area, established in 1990 and extended in October 2010, which includes four listed buildings, mature trees and wide grass verges. There is a unique 15-ft (4.88 m) pile of horseshoes outside the Grade II listed smithy. It consists of some 50,000 discarded horseshoes, and was constructed by the village blacksmith between about 1945 and 1965, while working in the adjacent Old Forge.
The village pinfold is found opposite the smithy, and is a Grade II listed building.[13] It has 6-foot brick walls with copings and is distinctive as a circular pinfold, as are those in nearby Flintham and Screveton: it is suggested that all three were built by the same unidentified builder in the 19th century. Scarrington's has a diameter of 20 feet. Renovation was carried out on it in 1988 and 2012.
Scarrington House in Hawksworth Road, built about 1700 for the Shipman family, prominent in the village since Elizabethan times.[14]
There was a hamlet of some 16 cottages known as Little Lunnon to the south of Scarborough. These thatched dwellings of poor quality were built in the mid-18th century to house the "impotent poor", under powers given to parish overseers under the Elizabethan Poor Law Act of 1601. That purpose was strictly served until the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, after which the destitute poor were sent to Bingham workhouse instead, but many Little Lunnon cottages remained occupied. The last two derelict cottages were demolished by the council as uninhabitable in 1945.[15] Many houses for the poor in earlier centuries were built on waste land, which may explain why the hamlet stood apart from the village.[16][17]
In 1848, A Topographical Dictionary of England said:
"SCARRINGTON, a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 12½ miles (E. by N.) from Nottingham; containing 230 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Orston: the tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1780. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans."[18] The parish link with Orston lasted until February 1867, when the chapelry of Scarrington was combined with that of Aslockton (hitherto under Whatton) to make a new vicarage: Scarrington-with-Aslockton.[19] The two parishes separated again in 1919, when Aslockton, with its newly built church, was paired again with Whatton.[20]
Big society
The Cranmer Arms in Aslockton and the Royal Oak in Car Colston (two miles away) are the nearest pubs.
Scarrington's Women's Institute meets at the WI Hall, Hawksworth Road, on the first Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm.[21]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Nottinghamshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1940), page 228
- ↑ Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 407 ISBN 0198691033
- ↑ National Heritage List 1272713: Church of St John of Beverley (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1page 304
- ↑ St John of Beverley Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire... (Sheffield, 1832), p. 504. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ↑ Grantham and Vale of Belvoir Methodist Circuit
- ↑ Anne Liddon: Antiquity 56.216, 1 March 1982 Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Scarrington in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Aslockton Local History Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire... (Sheffield, 1832), p. 479. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1244598: The Pinfold (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1244531: The Old Hall, Scarrington (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Notts Villages Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ↑ Undated Newark Advertiser article "Homes made of mud" Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Our Nottinghamshire Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ↑ Quoted in British History Online
- ↑ John Thomas Godfrey: Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham (Phillimore, 1907), p. 346.
- ↑ Aslockton St Thomas Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ↑ The WI Scarrington Women's Institute