Fiskerton is a village in

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, England on the west bank of the

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about 3 miles southeast of Southwell. The

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Fiskerton cum Morton Fiskerton cum Morton is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The overall area had a population of 803 at the 2021 census. The parish lies in the south east of the county. It is 112 miles ...

. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 Census was 902. The waterfront is home to million-pound residential properties, previously residences of merchants and businessmen who commuted in the 1800s to nearby

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by rail from Fiskerton Station. Walkers at Fiskerton

Picnicking at Fiskerton riverside informal parking area

The village's location beside the Trent attracts walkers, picnickers and casual visitors in summer, centred on the riverside pub/restaurant (was called the Bromley Arms, renamed as ''The Bromley at Fiskerton'' in 2014) and used as a friendly café-type base also serving snacks and refreshments.

Toponymy

The word 'Fiskerton' contains the

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word ''fiskari'' (or the

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equivalent ''fiscere'') meaning a fisherman, together with ''tun'' (Old English), a farmstead, resulting in 'Fishermen's farm/settlement'.

History

The 1086 Domesday entry for Fiskerton mentioned arable land enough for seven ploughs, two mills, a fishery, a ferry and 42 acres of meadow, pasture and woodland. Fishing and agriculture remained important, but with close proximity to the River Trent, Fiskerton developed other industries. By 1842 there were wharfs, coal yards and warehouses along the river front together with a large malthouse owned by Newark brewer, James Hole. There was a watermill on the River Greet and a windmill on what is now Station Road. An important development was the opening of the Nottingham to Lincoln railway in August 1846 with the station close to the village centre. By the end of the century, many wharfs and warehouses had disappeared, replaced by substantial residences like Fiskerton House and Fiskerton Manor on the riverside. The large malthouse on The Wharf closed in 1904 when James Hole decided to concentrate business in Newark, the premises being converted into a grain-store, with the wharf used for loading and unloading materials destined for Southwell corn mill. In the 1970s it became a boat-building business and then in the 1980s a private residence.Growth of Fiskerton, Fiskerton cum Morton
Retrieved 17 August 2014 Until the 1950s there was a ferry boat service over to the other side of the River Trent at Stoke Field. Fiskerton Mill lies on the River Greet a few hundred yards upstream from its junction with the River Trent. Fiskerton Windmill was a wooden postmill with a substantial brick roundhouse, standing off Station Road. A mill was marked at this site on Chapman's map of 1774. The mill ceased working some time in the last quarter of the 19th century. Only the roundhouse now remains.

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, who murdered his mother in Fiskerton in 1864, was the last person to be publicly hanged in

. The village of Fiskerton is also known in

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Christian circles as the homeplace of Henri and Connie Staples, who lived there from 1964 to 2000 and regularly held 'revival meetings' in the

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Chapel. Residential development occurred within Fiskerton between 1960 and 2000s, including the ''Green Drive'' area in 2002, which gave the village a permanent open space known as the Village Green, culminating in Fiskerton being the commuter village of today.

Fiskerton Cell

The village may have been home to a small

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Canons, dependent on the nearby Thurgarton Priory. It may have been founded around 1139, and Ralph D'Aincourt (son of

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) is listed as a possible founder. Doubt has been cast, however, on whether it was truly a

or a just a chapel/church. Ralph D'Aincourt founded the nearby Thurgarton Priory circa 1119–39, and gave the village of Fiskerton to that priory as part of its endowment. It is thought, therefore, that Fiskerton was not a cell but just a village chapel, with the canons of Thurgarton Priory serving as priests. The cell/chapel was believed to be dedicated to Saint Mary. There are no remains and its location has been lost.ST MARYS CHAPEL
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References

External links

Walk around Fiskerton – Nottingham PostFiskerton Wharf at Canal Plan AC
{{authority control Newark and Sherwood Villages in Nottinghamshire

Toponymy

History

Fiskerton Cell

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