OS grid reference SK7942 Region East Midlands Sovereign state United Kingdom Local time Monday 10:46 AM Dialling code 01949 | District Newark and Sherwood Country England Postcode district NG13 Shire county Nottinghamshire Post town Nottinghamshire | |
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Alverton 1979 cheltenham gold cup
Alverton is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, part of the Newark and Sherwood district. It is joined by the neighbouring parish of Kilvington to form an area for a parish meeting. It contains 22 houses and is surrounded by farmland. The River Devon and its tributary the Winter Beck run along its eastern border. The population is included in the civil parish of Staunton, Notts.
Contents
- Alverton 1979 cheltenham gold cup
- Map of Alverton Nottingham UK
- Alverton the 1979 cheltenham gold cup
- Facilities
- History
- Ghosts
- References
Map of Alverton, Nottingham, UK
Alverton the 1979 cheltenham gold cup
Facilities
There is a Montessori nursery school at Staunton-in-the Vale (1.6 miles, 2.6 km), primary schools at Orston (2.1 miles, 3.4 km) and Bottesford (3.6 miles, 5.8 km), and secondary schools at Bingham (7.3 miles, 11.7 km), Bottesford and Newark-on-Trent (7.5 miles, 12 km).
Alverton has no shops or places of worship. The nearest Anglican church is St Mary's at Staunton and the nearest Methodist church at Long Bennington (3.8 miles, 6.1 km). The nearest shopping centres are Bingham and Newark. The closest pubs are the Staunton Arms at Staunton and the Durham Ox at Orston.
There are two buses between Newark and in one case Shelton and the other Bottesford. These run only on Wednesdays and Fridays. The nearest train service is at Bottesford railway station on the Nottingham–Grantham line.
History
Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in Newark wapentake. It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Alvretun and Alvritun. The township was recorded in 1832 as having only 16 inhabitants. It had been enclosed in 1806. The Lord of the Manor was given as Rev. Dr. Staunton, and the "two farmers" as Robert Cross and Charles Neale. In 1870–72 it had seven houses and a population of 40.
Ghosts
The former Staunton Church of England School in the village is now a private house, said to be haunted by a teacher once murdered there. There have been two purported sightings of a ghost at another house, The Chestnuts, each describing the figure of an elderly lady in Victorian garb, thought to be a former sempstress to Queen Victoria, Mary Brown, who had returned to Alverton as housekeeper to her widowed brother and ruled his four children "with a rod of iron".