The village of Ordsall is attached to the market town of

Retford Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterfie ...

, Nottinghamshire, England, formally known as East Retford. The Bassetlaw ward of the same name had a population of 14,194 at the 2011 census. All Hallows' Church serves the village and is situated beside the

River Idle The River Idle is a river in Nottinghamshire, England whose source is the confluence of the River Maun and River Meden near Markham Moor. The Idle flows north from its source through Retford and Bawtry before entering the River Trent at West St ...

at the south side of Ordsall, an area sometimes referred to as "Old Ordsall". The River Idle, along with the Great Northern Rail Line, divides Ordsall from Retford. Ordsall is served by Ordsall Primary School, which is on Ordsall Road and from the age of 11 school children have the option of going to one of Retford's two secondary schools, Retford Oaks High School or Elizabethen High School. The football team 'Ordsall Rangers' is the village football team.

History

There is no record of Ordsall before the days of

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, when the land was chiefly marsh. In the

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of 1086, the name of the village is ''Ordeshale'' and in other early documents the name was ''Ordesale''. In 1637 it was even printed on a map as ''Ardsall'', however these corruptions of names are usual everywhere. For centuries the parish of Ordsall consisted of the village and two small hamlets,

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and Whitehouses. Ordsall Parish became part of the Retford Area Team Ministry, the area covered by the former Retford Deanery, in April 2011. The ecclesiastical parish of Ordsall formerly covered a much larger area than Ordsall village. Whereas the village is bounded by the river and railway lines, the parish extended northwards towards the centre of East Retford as far as Albert Road. On 1st September 2019 a new Parish of Ordsall and Retford, St Michael was formed. This new parish comprises all the parts of the former Ordsall parish that lie on western bank of the river Idle, along with the ancient parish of West Retford. The areas of the ancient Ordsall Parish that lie on the eastern bank of the river Idle are now part of the Parish of Retford, St Saviours. The ancient parish became a civil parish in 1866, but in 1921 the civil parish was abolished and absorbed into the Municipal Borough of East Retford.

Population

The population of the Parish, which includes the village of Ordsall and surrounding areas such as Thrumpton. The 2001 population is the population of the village alone.

All Hallows Church

The Anglican church, All Hallows is a Grade II* listed building. The first recorded rector is in 1277. The current building dates from that period but was rebuilt in the 19th century by TC Hine of Nottingham. The church has a short, square tower with diagonal buttresses that is thought to date from the 15th century. The upper parts of the tower had to be repaired in 1823 after it was struck by lightning. The church's east window is by

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of Smethwick and dates from 1877, as is the window in the north aisle east (1881). In the chancel there is a window by

James Powell and Sons The firm of James Powell and Sons, also known as Whitefriars Glass, were London-based English glassmakers, leadlighters and stained glass window manufacturers. As ''Whitefriars Glass'', the company existed from the 17th century, but became well ...

(Flint memorial, 1923) and another by

Charles Eamer Kempe Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a British Victorian era designer and manufacturer of stained glass. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for altars and altar frontals, furniture and furnishings, lichg ...

(Hall memorial, 1905). There are a number of unusual brass plates in the south aisle, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. In the north aisle is a memorial made of Nottinghamshire alabaster with kneeling figure between Corinthian columns (c 1600–20).

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