A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CALVERTON, a village and a parish in Basford district, Notts. The village stands near an affluent of the river Trent, 4¼ miles NNW of Burton-Joyce r. station, and 6½ NNE of Nottingham; and has a post office under Nottingham. The parish includes Satterford manor. Acres, 3,320. Real property, £4,724. Pop., 1,372. Houses, 288. The property is much subdivided. Roofing stone is quarried. Many of the inhabitants are lace and stocking makers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £127.* Patron, alternately the Bishop of Manchester and the Prebendary of Oxton. The church is good; and there are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists. A school has £12 from endowment; and other charities £12. Lee, the inventor of the stocking frame, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Calverton CP/AP Basford RegD/PLU Nottinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Calverton |
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