Map Reference: SK6655
St Giles church
And again.
From a watercolour by Barbara Coulam
Ashbourne house, Main Street (I live there)
The Old Reindeer
Edingley Allotments
A woman in a punt at Edingley Mill. Picture taken some time in the 1950s,
before the lake was filled in. (photo Kevin Topham)
Forrest Feeds
The Mill, Edingley, Newark,
NG22 8BG. Telephone 01623 882260
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Farnsfield water works
Newark
Corporation Waterworks at Farnsfield (below), photographed in 1948. The cooling
pond in the foreground - with water still somewhat warm from the steam engines -
was often used as a swimming pool by local villagers.
An extract from White's Directory 1853 for Edingley, Ormondthorpe and
Greaves Lane
Edingley is a pleasant village and parish, three miles west-north-west
of Southwell. Its parish comprises 381 inhabitants and 1,692 acres of land,
which was enclosed in 1778, when allotments were made in lieu of tithes. It is
in the liberty of Southwell and Scrooby. The archbishop is lord of the manor,
and the chapter of Southwell are the appropriators and patrons of the perpetual
curacy, which is valued in the King's books at £4, now at £80. A great part of
the soil is copyhold or leasehold under them, and the rest belongs to a number
of freeholders, the principal of whom are Mr Gunton, V.S. Burnell Esq., Mr John
Hage, Mr Edward Cope, Mr George Pursey, Mr Samuel Ward, Mr John Alcock and the
Rev. J.D. Beecher.
The church is an ancient structure, dedicated to St Giles. The chancel was
rebuilt by Henry Machon Esq. of Gatefoed Hill, in 1844, when the church was
thoroughly repaired at the expense of the parish. The Rev. James Francis Dimock
is the incumbent. The Methodists have a chapel here, erected in 1838. A feast is
held on the Sunday after Old St Giles's Day.
The Manor House is a very ancient building, situated near the church. It was
formerly surrounded by a moat, and had a draw-bridge. The cotton mill, which had
given employment to a great number of the villagers, was bought in 1837 by H.
Machon Esq., and taken down in 1842, previous to which it had been unoccupied
several years. The school was endowed by John Lamb and Samuel Wright in 1731,
with a house and 5½ acres of land, to which 3a 1r 22p was added at the
enclosure. The poor have £14 11s yearly, arising from several benefactions.
Ormondthorpe, 1 mile north-east, and Greaves Lane, 1 mile
south-west of the village, are two hamlets within the parish.
White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853
