Place:Fiskerton cum Morton, Nottinghamshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

source: Family History Library Catalog

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Fiskerton is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England on the west bank of the River Trent about 3 miles southeast of Southwell. Fiskerton has been part of the civil parish of Fiskerton cum Morton since 1884. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 UK census was 902. Fiskerton became a civil parish in 1866 having previously been a township in the ancient parish of Rolleston.

In the 1800s merchants and businessmen built substantial homes on the waterfront and commuted to their businesses in nearby Nottingham by rail from the local station.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Fiskerton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"FISKERTON, a township in Rolleston parish, Notts; on the river Trent, and on the Derby and Lincoln railway, 3 miles SE of Southwell. It has a station on the railway, a post office under Newark, a ferry to East Stoke, and a Wesleyan chapel; and it anciently had an Augustinian friary, founded in 1132 by Ralph D'Eyn-court, made subject to Thurgarton abbey, and suppressed in the time of Philip and Mary. Acres:, 1,043. Real property: £3,169. Population: 319. Houses: 77."

Morton

Morton is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 1 mile west of Fiskerton, and is part of the civil parish of Fiskerton cum Morton. The parish church of St Denis was built in 1756. Morton was a chapelry in the parish of Southwell before becoming an ecclesiastical parish. A Vision of Britain through Time could not provide a date but stated it was "early".

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Morton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"MORTON, a parish, with a village, in Southwell [registration] district, Notts; on the Nottingham and Lincoln railway, near Fiskerton [railway] station, and near the river Trent, 2½ miles SE by S of Southwell. Post town: Fiskerton, under Newark. Acres: 498. Real property: £1,252. Population: 142. Houses: 34. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to W. Wright, Esq. Morton Grange is the residence of H. Barnett, Esq. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bleasby, in the diocese of Lincoln. The church is a neat brick structure, of nave and small chancel, with an embattled tower.

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