Scarrington

Most local government functions are performed by Rushcliffe Borough Council. The borough election results on 7 May 2015 confirmed Conservative control. Scarrington lies in Bingham East ward and its small population qualifies it only for a twice-yearly Parish Meeting, not a Parish Council.Parish Councils [http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/councilanddemocracy/yourrepresentatives/parishcouncilcontacts/ Retrieved 1 January 2016.]

The member of Parliament (MP) for Newark, the constituency in which Scarrington is located in, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick.

Scarrington may contain the Old English word, scearnig meaning dirty, filthy or mucky, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; or an estate, so perhaps "Dirty farm or settlement".J. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p.228; A. D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p. 303; E .Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p. 407.

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A flint sickle blade found at Scarrington in 1981 was dated to the late Neolithic age.Anne Liddon: Antiquity 56.216, 1 March 1982 [https://www.proquest.com/openview/23d51eec46be0e37692cd9fe6abaac20/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1818741 Retrieved 4 January 2016.] There is also evidence that Scarrington was inhabited in Roman times (2nd–3rd century AD), in the shape of tools and remains of a villa. These were found while laying a water pipe in February/March 1991 between the village and Car Colston.Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1352-1/dissemination/pdf/Nottinghamshire/GL26016.pdf Retrieved 4 January 2016.] Scarrington is noted in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Scarintone" and as belonging to the king. It had 27 households.Open Domesday [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7341/scarrington/ Retrieved 16 January 2016.]

Scarrington and Aslockton shared several landowners and could be covered by a joint enclosure act in 1781.Aslockton Local History [http://aslockton.weebly.com/local-history.html Retrieved 16 January 2016.] The population of Scarrington was 152 in 1801, 171 in 1821, and 188 in 1831.William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire... (Sheffield, 1832), p. 479. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3cHAAAAQAAJ Retrieved 3 April 2016.] The size of the village changed little from the time of enclosure up to the 20th century, when some building took place northward along Hawksworth Road. A few working farms remain, but most inhabitants commute to work or school. Scarrington was in Bingham Rural District up to 1974 and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake.

The village lies mainly within a conservation area, established in 1990 and extended in October 2010, which includes four listed buildings, mature trees and wide grass verges. There is a unique 15-ft (4.88 m) pile of horseshoes outside the Grade II listed Smithy.Rushcliffe. [http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/conservation/conservationareasinrushcliffe/scarrington/ Retrieved 1 January 2016.] It consists of some 50,000 discarded horseshoes, and was constructed by the village blacksmith between about 1945 and 1965, while working in the adjacent Old Forge.Nottinghamshire Villages [http://nottsvillages.blogspot.hu/2015/06/scarrington.html Retrieved 13 June 2017.]

The medieval Anglican parish Church of St John of Beverley, Scarrington, a 13th-century building restored by J. H. Hakewill in 1867–1869, is Grade I listed.{{National Heritage List for England |num=1272713 |desc=Church of St John of Beverley |accessdate=1 January 2016}}Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (Harmondsworth, United Kingdom: Penguin, 1979), p. 304. The belfry has three bells dated 1450.St John of Beverley [http://www.scarringtonchurch.org.uk/#about-the-church Retrieved 4 January 2016.]

File:Scarrington Pinfold - geograph.org.uk - 1085321.jpg A Methodist chapel was built in 1818.William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire... (Sheffield, 1832), p. 504. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3cHAAAAQAAJ Retrieved 3 April 2016.]

Another Grade II listed edifice is the village pinfold opposite the Smithy. It has 1.83 m brick walls with copings and is unusual in being circular. However, the pinfolds at nearby Flintham and Screveton are also circular, and it is suggested that all three were built by the same unidentified builder in the 19th century. Scarrington's has a diameter of 6.1 m. Renovation was carried out on it in 1988 and 2012.Waymarking. [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMKN64_Scarrington_Village_Pinfold_Nottinghamshire_UK Retrieved 1 January 2016.]

The village's third Grade II listed building is the old hall, Scarrington House in Hawksworth Road, built about 1700 for the Shipman family, prominent in the village since Elizabethan times.[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-448153-the-old-hall-scarrington-nottinghamshire#.Vs-IxX0rLBQ British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 February 2016.]

There was a hamlet of some 16 cottages known as Little Lunnon to the south of Scarborough. These thatched dwellings of poor quality were built in the mid-18th century to house the "impotent poor", under powers given to parish overseers under the Poor Relief Act 1601. That purpose was strictly served until the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, after which the destitute poor were sent to Bingham workhouse instead, but many Little Lunnon cottages remained occupied. The last two derelict cottages were demolished by the council as uninhabitable in 1945.Notts Villages [http://nottsvillages.blogspot.hu/2015/06/scarrington.html Retrieved 1 January 2016.] Many houses for the poor in earlier centuries were built on waste land, which may explain why the hamlet stood apart from the village.Undated Newark Advertiser article "Homes made of mud" [http://newarkadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/tourism/history/TimWarner/warner64.asp Retrieved 4 January 2016.]Our Nottinghamshire [http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page_id__1190.aspx?path=0p31p313p Retrieved 16 January 2016.]

Here is an extract from A Topographical Dictionary of England (London: S. Lewis, 1848): "SCARRINGTON, a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 12½ miles (E. by N.) from Nottingham; containing 230 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Orston: the tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1780. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans."[http://w01.bhocms.wf.ulcc.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp26-30#h3-0024 Quoted in British History Online. Retrieved 1 January 2016.] The parish link with Orston lasted until February 1867, when the chapelry of Scarrington was combined with that of Aslockton (hitherto under Whatton) to make a new vicarage: Scarrington-with-Aslockton.John Thomas Godfrey: Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham (Phillimore, 1907), p. 346. The two parishes separated again in 1919, when Aslockton, with its newly built church, was paired again with Whatton.Aslockton St Thomas [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/aslockton/hhistory.php Retrieved 22 February 2016.]

Scarrington has only twice-weekly bus services – No. 856 runs between Lowdham and Bottesford via Bingham twice in each direction on Tuesdays and Thursdays.[http://www.travelinesoutheast.org.uk/se/XSLT_TTB_REQUEST?line=18856&lineVer=1&net=em&project=y08&command=direct&outputFormat=0 Bus times. Retrieved 15 April 2019.] The nearest stop regularly served is in Aslockton (1.5 miles/2.4 km).[https://bustimes.org/search?q=Aslockton Bus times. Retrieved 15 April 2019.] Aslockton railway station (1.3 miles/2.1 km) has trains every one or two hours towards Nottingham and Grantham or Skegness.

There are primary schools in Aslockton and Bingham.School Finder [http://home.rm.com/SchoolFinder/ShowSchools.aspx?l=Scarrington,Nottinghamshire&t=pri Retrieved 1 January 2016.] Toot Hill School in Bingham has a sixth form and academy status.Toot Hill School [http://www.toothill.notts.sch.uk/ Retrieved 7 February 2016.] The premises of Scarrington's old school in Aslockton Road now form a private house.Zoopla [http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/the-old-school-house/aslockton-road/scarrington/nottingham/ng13-9bp/16116250 Retrieved 2 January 2016.] Until the mid-1950s, there was a private junior school at The White House in Main Street.Cranmer Local History Group [http://www.cranmerlhg.org.uk/articles/article.php?id=2 Retrieved 1 January 2016.] It was run by Dorothy Standish (1887–1973),Rootspoint [http://www.rootspoint.com/record/1901-UK-Census/Dorothy-Standish-1888-Scarrington-Nottinghamshire-Scarrington/b703f333-81f1-46f9-8fbd-500500682c4b/ Retrieved 22 February 2016.] daughter of Rev. John Standish, who had been vicar of the Scarrington/Aslockton parish from 1885 until his death in 1918.Europeana Collections [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2022323/90D41DF16FC5C572B7672BEBB4DBF83E9AEBC02F.html Retrieved 22 February 2016.]

Scarrington parish church forms part of the Cranmer group of Anglican parishes in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. It has services only on major festivals.[https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/17874/about-us/ A Church Near You. Retrieved 15 April 2019.] Scarrington Methodist Church in Main Street has a 6 pm service on alternate Sundays and a monthly Bible study session. It belongs to the Grantham and Vale of Belvoir Circuit.[https://www.gvbcircuit.org.uk/scarrington.html Circuit website. Retrieved 15 April 2019.]

Scarrington's Women's Institute (WI) meets at the WI Hall, Hawksworth Road, on the first Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm.The WI [https://www.thewi.org.uk/become-a-member/structure-of-the-wi/england/nottinghamshire/find-a-wi/scarrington Retrieved 16 January 2016.]

Scarrington has a used-car dealer in Main Street,Business site [http://www.grahammarshall.co.uk/ Retrieved 16 January 2016.] a commercial and domestic laundry,Business site [http://www.themanorlaundry.co.uk/ Retrieved 26 February 2016.] and a barbers' at Manor Farm. Otherwise the nearest retail, medical and professional services are in Bingham. There is a filling station at Saxondale (3 miles/4.8 km). The Cranmer Arms in Aslockton and the Royal Oak in Car Colston (2 miles/3.2 km) are the nearest pubs. The nearest accommodation is in Bingham (2 miles/3.2 km) and Elton on the Hill (2.2 miles/3.6 km).

• Thomas Shipman (1632–1680), royalist poet, playwright and landowner, was born in Scarrington, baptised there in November 1632, and died there on 15 October 1680.Wikisource [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Shipman,_Thomas_(DNB00) Retrieved 22 February 2016.] He was the author of Carolina, or, Loyal Poems (1683).Robert Wilcher, "Shipman, Thomas (1632–1680)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25414 Retrieved 15 April 2019.]
• Sarah Churm (born 1980), television actress, was born in Scarrington.IMDb [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161511/ Retrieved 16 January 2016.]
• Roy Keane (born 1971), footballer, lived in Scarrington while playing for Nottingham Forest.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2672799/2021/07/01/roy-keane-at-nottingham-forest-untold-stories-of-the-player-and-assistant-manager/ | title=Roy Keane at Nottingham Forest: Untold stories of the player and assistant manager | website=The Athletic }}

• Listed buildings in Scarrington

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• Map of Scarrington Conservation Area [http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/media/rushcliffe/media/documents/pdf/planningandbuilding/conservationareas/Scarrington%20Conservation%20Area%20Boundary.pdf Retrieved 1 January 2016.]
• Scarrington Appraisal and Management Plan [http://www.rushcliffe.gov.uk/media/rushcliffe/media/documents/pdf/planningandbuilding/conservationareas/Scarrington_Appraisal_and_Management_Plan.pdf Retrieved 1 January 2016.]
• Hand-drawn Ordnance Survey map of Scarrington, 1883–99 [http://www.francisfrith.com/scarrington/maps Retrieved 16 January 2016.]
• A large number of photographs of Scarrington [http://www.flickriver.com/places/United+Kingdom/England/Scarrington/search/ Retrieved 16 January 2016.]
• Short account of a 2013 lecture on the Scarrington-born poet Thomas Shipman [http://slha.org.uk/news/index.php?year=2013&type=LC#apm1_2 Retrieved 26 February 2016.]

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