:''Alverton can also be a variant of Alverston or
Alton.''
Alverton is an English hamlet in the
Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire. It is joined by neighbouring
Kilvington
Kilvington is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, part of the Newark and Sherwood district.
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to form an area for a
parish meeting. It contains 22 houses, surrounded by farmland. The
River Devon and its tributary, the Winter
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, run along its eastern border. It is covered by the
civil parish of
Staunton.
Amenities
There is a Montessori nursery school at Staunton-in-the-Vale (1.6 miles, 2.6 km), primary schools at
Orston (2.1 miles, 3.4 km) and
Bottesford (3.6 miles, 5.8 km), and secondary schools at
Bingham (7.3 miles, 11.7 km), Bottesford and
Newark-on-Trent (7.5 miles, 12.1 km).
Alverton has no shops or places of worship. The nearest Anglican church is
St Mary's at Staunton and the nearest Methodist church at
Long Bennington
Long Bennington is a linear village and civil parish in South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, just off the A1 road, north of Grantham and south of Newark-on-Trent. It had a population of 2,100 in 2014 and 2,018 at the 2011 Census.
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(3.8 miles, 6.1 km). The nearest shopping centres are Bingham and Newark. The closest pubs are the ''Staunton Arms'' at Staunton and the ''Durham Ox'' at Orston.
Two buses run through Alverton on Wednesdays and Fridays between Newark and in the one case
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Places
United Kingdom
*Shelton, North Bedfordshire, in the parish of Dean and Shelton, Bedfordshire
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and the other Bottesford. The nearest train service is at
Bottesford railway station on the line between Nottingham,
Grantham and
Skegness line.
History
Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in
Newark wapentake
Newark was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England.
Constituents
It was in the east of the county with the River Trent forming most of the western boundary. It consisted of the parishes of Alvert ...
. 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. In 1870–72 it had seven houses and a population of 40.
Ghosts
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".
External sources
*Photographs of the old school and schoolmaster's house in 1978 appear in Our Nottinghamshire.
*A 2014 photograph of the old school can be seen here.
*A 1900 map showing Alverton and neighbouring villages can be found in the National Library of Scotland.
Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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References
External links
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*{{OpenDomesday, SK7942, alverton, Alverton
*Alverton history in ''Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire...'', 1790
Retrieved 5 January 2014.
Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire
Hamlets in Nottinghamshire
Newark and Sherwood