Screveton (pronounced locally "Screveeton" or "Screeton") is an English

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

and village in the

Rushcliffe Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the Local Authority at the 2011 Census was 111,129. Its councilRushcliffe Borough Council Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

, with about 100 inhabitants, increasing (including Kneeton) to 191 at the 2011 Census. It was formerly in Bingham Rural District and before

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in Bingham Wapentake. It is adjacent to Kneeton,

Flintham Flintham is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district in Nottinghamshire, 7 miles (11 km) from Newark-on-Trent and opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. It had a population of 597 at the 2011 Census and estimated at 586 in 2019. The vil ...

, Hawksworth,

Scarrington Scarrington is an English civil parish and village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. Its 973 acres (394 ha) had a population in 2011 of 183. It lies at Ordnance S ...

, Little Green and Car Colston.

Toponymy

Screveton may contain the

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word ''scīr-rēfa'' for a sheriff or the king's executive, + ''tun'' (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; or an estate, so probably "Sheriff's farm/settlement".

Heritage

Richard Whalley, who died at the old hall in Screveton in 1583, had been elected to Parliament four times in the troubled

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. His three successive wives bore him a total of 25 children. A fine monument to him in the parish church bears an inscription: :Behold his Wives were number three: :Two of them died in right good fame: :The Third this Tomb erected she, :For him who well deserv'd the same. :Both for his life and Godly end, :Which all that knows must needs commend: :And they that knows not, yet may see, :A worthy Whalleye loe was he. :Since time brings all things to an end, :Let us our selves applye, :And learn by this our faithful friend, :That here in Tombe doth lye, :To fear the Lord, and eke beholde :The fairest is but dust and Mold: :For as we are, so once was he: :And as he ys, so must we be." The hall was demolished in the 1820s. The population of the village at the beginning of the 1870s was 241 in 60 houses. The main landowners at that time were the politicians Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, and

Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard Thomas Blackborne Thoroton-Hildyard (8 April 1821 – 19 March 1888) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1846 and 1885. Thoroton-Hildyard was the son of Colonel Thomas Blackborne ...

, a descendant of the 17th-century local historian

Robert Thoroton Dr Robert Thoroton (4 October 1623 – c. 21 November 1678) was an English antiquary, mainly remembered for his county history, ''The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire'' (1677). Life Thoroton belonged to an old Nottinghamshire family, which took it ...

. Two young men from Screveton who died for their country in the First World War are remembered on a memorial stone in the village churchyard.

Listed buildings

St Wilfrid's is a Grade I listed building from the 13th century, restored in the 1880s. Other listed edifices in the village include the Old Priest's House, Top Farmhouse and adjacent buildings, and the circular

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, whose unusual shape is also found in pounds at Scarrington and Flintham.

Church

St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Screveton. History The church dates from the 13th century. The west tower, however, dates from the 15th century and was altered in the late 16th centu ...

forms a joint Anglican parish with

St Mary's Church, Car Colston St Mary's Church, Car Colston is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Car Colston. History The church dates from the 13th century. The tower was restored in 1911. The church is in a joint parish with St Wilfrid's Church, ...

. They now belong with Flintham, Kneeton and East Bridgford to the Fosse Group of parishes.Southwell and Nottingham Church History Projec
Retrieved 14 January 2016.
/ref> A service of Holy Communion is held at Screveton every two weeks at 10.30 am. Two former

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chapels in the village are now residences, but there is still an active Methodist church at Scarrington (2.5 miles/4 km).

Transport and facilities

Screveton lies 1 mile/1. km from the

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between

Newark-on-Trent Newark-on-Trent or Newark () is a market town and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is on the River Trent, and was historically a major inland port. The A1 road (Great Britain), A1 road bypasses th ...

and Leicester, which meets the

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between

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

and

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at Saxondale. The nearest station is at

Aslockton Aslockton is an English village and civil parish 12 miles (19.3 km) east of Nottingham and two miles (3.2 km) east of Bingham, on the north bank of the River Smite opposite Whatton-in-the-Vale. The parish is also adjacent to Scarring ...

, which has daily trains every one or two hours between

and

Skegness Skegness ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is east of Lincoln and north-east of Boston. With a population of 19,579 as of 2011, ...

. Screveton has a service of three buses a day on weekdays to Bingham and to Newark. The nearest pub is the ''Royal Oak'' at Car Colston (1 mile/1.6 km). Retail and catering facilities can be found 4 miles/6.4 km away in Bingham. There are primary schools at Flintham (1.9 miles/3.1 km), East Bridgford (2.9 miles/4.7 km) and Bingham.

Toot Hill School Toot Hill School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in Bingham in the English county of Nottinghamshire, built in 1969. The school is a member of the Nova Education Trust and has a student population of almost 2000 peo ...

in Bingham is a secondary school with a

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and academy status.

External sources

*Screveton St Wilfrid. History *Thorotons and Hildyards *Screveton HallRetrieved 14 January 2016.
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References

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