Elston
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:DMCA Template:DMCA
Template:Short descriptionPage Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Infobox UK place/styles.css has no content.
| Elston | |
|---|---|
| Village and civil parish | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. All Saints Church, Elston | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Nottinghamshire" does not exist. | |
| Script error: No such module "Infobox mapframe". | |
| Area | 2.51 sq mi (6.5 km2) |
| Population | 697 (2021) |
| • Density | 278/sq mi (107/km2) |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] SK 759481] |
| • London | 110 mi (180 km)* SSE |
| District | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Shire county | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Region | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Country | Script error: No such module "Link if exists". |
| Crown dependency | Script error: No such module "Link if exists". |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NEWARK |
| Postcode district | NG23 |
| Dialling code | 01636 |
| Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content. | |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Website | elstonparish |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Elston is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire, England, to the south-west of Newark, Template:Cvt from the A46 Fosse Way. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 631,[1] increasing to 697 at the 2021 census.[2] It lies between the rivers Trent and Devon, with the village "set amongst trees and farmland less than a mile from the A46.... Newark is five miles to the north, with... Lincoln and Nottingham some 18 miles north and south-west respectively."[3]
Darwins
According to Cornelius Brown's 1896 History of Nottinghamshire, the village lies
"very snugly and prettily ensconced in the midst of a pleasing landscape of North England. Nearly opposite each other are the Hall and vicarage, both occupying delightful situations, and built in elegant and stately style. All Saints' Church, Elston has been handsomely restored, and is singularly rich in its memorials of the Darwins. This eminent family appear to have come to Elston from Lincolnshire towards the close of the seventeenth century, the manor being brought into the possession of William Darwin through his marriage with the heiress of Robert Waring of Wilford. William had two sons, and Elston was left to Robert, the younger, in whom the taste for scientific research began to develop."[4]
Elston "currently has about 650 residents in 280 households. A number of new homes have been built within the last twenty years on once open spaces and there continues to be infill development on some of the large gardens."[3]
History
Elston was "founded by the Angles in the 5th century. Its square shape is typically Anglo Saxon. The name derives from a leader named Elva and appears in the Domesday Book as Elvastun. Historic old buildings in and adjacent to the parish include Elston Hall, All Saints Church, the Old Chapel of Ease on the site of a mediaeval leper hospital, the Methodist Chapel, and Elston Towers, the Victorian mansion of preacher Robert Middleton, now refurbished as a day spa and renamed Eden Hall."[3]
Elston Hall
.jpg)
Elston Hall was "the home of the Darwin family from 1680 until just after the Second World War, when the estate was sold. Its premier resident was the savant Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin. Erasmus founded the Lunar Society, which included Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Franklin."[3]
The present house was begun in 1756, then extended in 1837 and again later that century and in the 1950s. Originally H-shaped, it is now a linear sequence of two-storey ranges, the earliest being the central range built in blue lias stone. Grade II listed in 1952, the buildings are now divided into ten residences.[5]
Elston Chapel
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".
Once a parish church, this was declared redundant in 1976,[6] and under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[7] It is a Grade I listed building containing a fine Norman south doorway with zigzag decoration.[6][7]
Inside are layers of wall paintings.[7] It is thought it may have been the chapel of a medieval leper hospital dedicated to St Leonard.[3][8][9]
Elston Mill
Maps show windmills on the north side of Elston Lane (grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".) and south side of Mill Lane (grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".). The latter was a tower mill built about 1844, the tower being bottle-shaped, with an increase in batter at the 3rd floor. Some renovation was done by Gash in 1919 and a new sail fitted by Wakes and Lamb of Newark for £74 in 1920. However, it was demolished in about 1940.
See also
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ^ Template:NOMIS2021
- ^ a b c d e Elston Parish Council Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ C. Brown, A History of Nottinghamshire (1896), p. 135.
- ^ Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elston Chapel, Elston", Heritage Gateway website, Heritage Gateway (English Heritage, Institute of Historic Building Conservation and ALGAO:England), 2006, retrieved 25 November 2010
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.No Dedication, Elston, Churches Conservation Trust, archived from the original on 19 January 2011, retrieved 25 November 2010
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nottinghamshire Parish Church Database, Heather Faulkes, archived from the original on 6 November 2010, retrieved 25 November 2010
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Nottinghamshire Village Book: Elston – A Modern Description, The Nottinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes and Countryside Books, GENUKI, 1989, retrieved 25 November 2010
External links
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
- The Elston Heritage Project
- British History Online: Parishes – Elston
- The Guys of Bottesford, Leicestershire and Associated Families: Transcripts of Parish Records: Nottingham Parish Records (Elston, 1584–1814)
Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
