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Nottinghamshire S-Z

Salterford
Saltreford: Osbern FitzRichard.
Salterford Farm.
Saundby
Sandebi: King's land; Archbishop of York.

Saxondale
Saxeden: Roger de Bully. Church.

Scaftworth
Scafteorde: Archbishop of York.
On the River Idle.
Scarrington
Scarintone: King's land.
Quiet; ancient dovecote, now a garage.
Scofton
Scotebi: King's land.
Tiny, in Sherwood Forest.
Screveton
Escreventone / Screvetone / Screvintone: King's land; Hugh the nephew of Herbert from Bishop of Bayeux; Roger de Bully.
Church with an Anglo-Saxon cross.
Scrooby
Scrobi: Archbishop of York.
Brewster Cottage, said to be the home of William Brewster, Pilgrim Father and founder of Plymouth, New England; site of a moated archbishop's palace, visited by Henry VII and Cardinal Wolsey.
Selston
Salestune: William Peverel.
Church, Now 2 villages, Selston and Selston Green; church with Norman arches and pillars.
Serlby
Serlebi: Roger de Bully.
Roman bank and earthworks nearby.
Shelford
Scelford: Roger de Bully; Geoffrey Alselin. Church.
Site of 12th century priory; church with the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cross with Virgin and Child. A Royalist stronghold during the Civil War, the manor house was burned by the Roundheads.
Shelton
Sceltun(e): Robert from Roger de Bully; Ralph de Limesy; Ilbert de Lacy. Church (with Flawborough); mill site.
By the River Devon.
Sibthorpe
Sibetorp: Fredegis from Count Alan; Robert from William Peverel; Arngrim from Ilbert de Lacy. Church, 1¼ mills.
Easter Sepulchre in church; 20 Irish yew trees in graveyard, said to be 1000 years old; old manor house; traces of a moat; medieval dovecote, 98ft in circumference.
Skegby (in Marnham)
Scachebi: Roger de Bully.
Near the Lincolnshire border.
Skegby (in Sutton in Ashfield)
Schegebi: King's land. Fishery, 2 churches.
Church.
Sneinton
Notintone: King's land.
Part of Nottingham; birthplace of William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army.
South Muskham
Muscham: Archbishop of York; Seric from the king.
Near the River Trent.
South Ordsall
Suderdeshale: King's land.
Part of Ordsall.
South Scarle
Scornelei: Bishop of Lincoln.
Views of Lincoln Cathedral; dovecote with a pyramidical roof.
Southwell
Sudeuuelle / Sudwelle: Archbishop of York. 3 mills, fishpond, ferry.
Town. South Minster, the mother church of Nottinghamshire, was begun in 1108 under the Archbishop of York and retains all 3 Norman towers. Charles I spent his last night of freedom at the 17th century Saracen's Head.
Spalford
Spaldesforde: Bishop of Lincoln; Roger de Bully.
On the Lincolnshire border.
Stanford on Soar
Stanford: Roger de Bully; Robert FitzWilliam. Mill, mill-site.

Stanton on the Wolds
Stantun(e): Alfred from Count of Mortain; Roger de Bully; William Peverel; Robert FitzWilliam.
Nearly deserted.
Stapleford
Stapleford: Robert from William Peverel. Church.
Town on the outskirts of Nottingham. St. Helen's Church is 13th century with a 10ft high Saxon cross.
Staunton
Stantun: King's land; Walter d'Aincourt. Church, mill.
Now Staunton in the Vale; church with a Norman font. Sir Walter Scott stayed with the Staunton family and used the 16th century Hall as 'Willingham' in The Heart of Midlothian, 1818.
Staythorpe
Startorp: Gilbert Tison. Mill.
On Pingley Dyke.
Stoke Bardolph
Stoches: Geoffrey Alselin. Church, fishery, 2 mills.
Chapel.
Stokeham
Estoches: Nigel from Bishop of Lincoln, formerly Lady Godiva.

Strelley
Straelie / Straleia: Godwin the priest and Ambrose from William Peverel; Wulfsi and Godwin from the king.
Unspoilt. Owned by 2 families since the 12th century; the Strelleys until the 17th century, the Edges until today.
Sturton le Steeple
Estretone: King's land; Roger de Bully.

Styrrup
Estirape: Bernard from Roger de Bully.
The 'Hanging Field' in this parish might have been the gallows site for Blythe and the surrounding area.
Sutton
Sudtone: Archbishop of York.
Near East Retford.
Sutton Bonington
Su(d)tone: Robert FitzWilliam from Earl Hugh; Count of Mortain; Henry de Ferrers; Siward and Coleman from the king. Mill.
17th century houses.
Sutton in Ashfield
Sutone: King's land. Mill, fishery (with Mansfield and Skegby).
Mining town; lake.
Sutton on Trent
Sudtone: Hervey from Count Alan; Roger de Bully. Church, 3 fisheries.
Church with Saxon foundations.
Sutton Passeys
Sudtune / Sutone:
Lost.
Swanston
Suanesterne:
Lost.
Syerston
Sirestun(e): King's land; Robert from Count Alan; Bishop of Lincoln; Godwin from Berengar de Tosny.

Teversal
Tevreshalt: Ralph FitzHubert. Mill.
Colliery; manor house.
Thoresby
Turesbi: King's land.
In Sherwood Forest; Thoresby Park, with lake and medieval oaks. Thoresby Hall was rebuilt on the site of the home of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the great English letter-writer.
Thorney
Torneshaie: Bishop of Lincoln.

Thoroton
Toruentun / ertune: King's land; Ilbert de Lacy.
Gave its name to Robert Thoroton, author of Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677).
Thorpe by Neward
Torp: Manfred from Ralph de Limesy.

Thorpe in the Glebe
Torp: King's land; Roger de Bully.
Ancient site on the Leicestershire border.
Thrumpton
Turmodestun: Roger de Bully. William Peverel; Hugh de Grandmesnil.
Prehistoric trackway nearby.
Thurgarton
Turgarstune: Walter d'Aincourt.
Walter's son Ralph founded the Augustinan priory. Parts remain in the rebuilt church and the undercroft of an adjoining house.
Tiln
Tille / Tilne: King's land; Archbishop of York. 2 mills, 2 mills (with Clarborough).
On the River Idle.
Tithby
Tiedebi: Fredegis from William Peverel; Walter d'Aincourt.
Tythby Grange.
Tollerton
Troclavestune: Roger de Bully. 2 mills, church.
Near Polser Brook; church; airport.
Torworth
Turdeworde: Azor the priest from Roger de Bully.

Toton
Toluestone / Touetune: Warner from William Peverel; Ralph FitzHubert. ½ church, 2 mills, small willow bed.
Part of Beeston, Nottingham; near the marshes and lakes of a nature reserve.
Treswell
Tireswelle: Robert de Moutiers from Count Alan; Roger from Roger de Bully.

Trowell
Torwalle / Trouualle: William the Usher; Aelfric, the pre-Conquest holder, Haldane and Ernwin from the king. ½ church.
Within a few miles of the exact centre of England.
Tuxford
Tuxfarne: Roger de Bully. Mill.
Small market town. Its charter for a weekly market and annual fair was granted by Henry III in 1218.

Upper Broughton
Brotone: King's land. Mill.
Also called Broughton Sulney; known for its healing spring waters.
Upton
Uptone / tun(e): King's land; Roger de Bully.
Within village of Headon; birthplace of James Tennant (1808-81) who superintended the cutting of the Koh-i-noor diamond for Queen Victoria's crown.

Walesby
Walesbi: King's land; Roger de Bully; Geoffrey Alselin; Roger de Poitou.

Walkeringham
Wachering(e)ham: King's land; Roger from Roger de Bully.
Between the Chesterfield Canal and the River Trent.
Wansley
Wanddeslei: Ralph FitzHubert. ½ church.
Wansley Hall; Wansley Hall Farm.
Warborough
Wareberg:
Lost.
Warsop
Wares(h)ope / Warsope: King's land and a blind man from the king; Roger de Bully. Church. mill, ½ mill-site.
Mining town divided by the River Meden; mainly Norman church.
Watnall
Watenot: Grim, Aelmer, Jocelyn and Grimkell from William Peverel.
On the outskirts of Nottingham.
Welham
Wellon / Wellun: King's land; Archbishop of York.
Welham Hall.
Wellow
Creilege: Gilbert de Ghent.
Wellow Park; ducking stool.
West Bridgford
Brigeforde: William Peverel.
Town adjoining Nottingham, mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles for the year 920, when Edward the Elder ordered a bridge across the River Trent, and a borough to be built on the south side of the river.
West Burton
Burtone: 2 men-at-arms from Archbishop of York.
Site of Burton Round, now fenland; new power station nearby.
West Drayton
Draitone: Roger de Bully. 3 mills.
Between the Maun and Idle rivers.
Weston
Westone: Fulk, Robert and Turold from Roger de Bully. Church, mill.
Church; moat.
Whatton
Watone: Robert from Gilbert de Ghent. Mill, millstone quarry.
Ancient fishpond.
Wheatley
Watelaie: King's land; 2 men-at-arms from Archbishop of York; Roger de Bully.
Now 2 villages, North and South Wheatley, on a Roman road.
Widmerpool
Wimarspol(d): Ralph FitzHubert; Haldane from the king.
Among the Wolds.
Wigsley
Wigesleie: Bishop of Lincoln.
Near the Lincolnshire border.
Wilford
Wilesforde: William Peverel. ½ fishery.
District of Clifton, Nottingham. The ashes of the 19th century poet Henry Kirke White are in the churchyard.
Willoughby
Wilgebi: Archbishop of York; Geoffrey Alselin. ½ mill.
Willoughby Farm, near Norwell.
Willoughby
Wilgebi: King's land; Geoffrey Alselin; Roger de Poitou.
Near Walesby.
Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
Wigebi / Willebi: Roger de Bully; William Peverel; Roger de Poitou; Henry de Ferrers; Algar, Alwin and Ernwin from the king.
Home of the Willoughby family from 13th century to 1924; site of one of Nottinghamshire's 5 Roman stations.
Wimpton
Wimentun: King's land.
Whimpton Moor, near Dunham.
Winkburn
Wicheburne: Gilbert Tison. Church.
Secluded; owned, with the mainly Norman church, by the Knights Hospitalers in the 12th century.
Winthorpe
Wimuntorp: Bishop of Lincoln.

Wiseton
Wisetone: King's land.
Unspoilt.
Wiverton
Wivretone: William Peverel; Walter d'Aincourt.
15th century gatehouse.
Wollaton
Waletone / Ol(l)avestone: King's land; Warner from William Peverel.
Part of Nottingham; Elizabethan Wollaton Hall, now a Natural History museum.
Woodborough
Ude(s)burg: Archbishop of York; Roger de Bully; Ralph de Limesy; Haldane, Ulfkell, the pre-Conquest holder, and Aelfric from the king. Mill with Epperstone, 4 mills, church.
Large; Iron Age hill fort discernable; Norman church rebuilt in the 14th century; once a centre for stocking knitting.
Worksop
Werchesope: Roger de Bully.
Market town on the edge of Sherwood Forest. Remains of Anglo-Saxon and Norman residences, and an ancient British earthwork, are on Castle Hill.
Wysall
Wisoc: Roger from Roger de Bully. Church.
In the Wolds; church with the county's oldest pulpit, c.1400.