Farms and manors
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John Pemberton Plumptre and Jane Austen’s niece updated
During the latter part of 1814 Jane’s niece Fanny Knight, the daughter of her brother Edward, wrote to Jane asking her advise as to whether she should marry J.P.P., who was described as gentlemanly…
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The Church Lane Denehole-updated with photographs
Notes made by Dr. Hardman concerning the discovery of a denehole at Church Lane, Nonington, in May of 1939. Discovered in the last week of May 1939 in the grounds of Mr. F. G.…
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Nonington and The Great War-plans for evacuation in the event of a German invasion
As the outbreak of armed conflict between the British Empire and the German Empire became more certain plans were made to evacuate the civilian population of Kent in the event of invasion. The…
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The Napoleonic Wars:-Nonington’s 1804 evacuation plan
In 1803 Napoleon began planning an invasion of England and began to gather and train a new army in camps on the north French coast which eventually amounted to some 200,000 men supported…
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John Pemberton Plumptre and Jane Austen’s niece
During the latter part of 1814 Jane’s niece Fanny Knight, the daughter of her brother Edward, wrote to Jane asking her advise as to whether she should marry J.P.P., who was described as gentlemanly…
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The Redd Lyon at Frogham-renamed The Phoenix in 1833
In 1833, during John Hopper’s tenure as land-lord, “The Red Lion” was renamed “The Phoenix”. In December of 1832 John Pemberton Plumptre of Fredville had been elected to Parliament as one of the two…
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Recently come to light photographs of: the Fredville Houses and the hamlet of Frogham
Recently I have been fortunate enough to have had access to the archive of the late Aubrey Sutton, a Nonington born man with an interest in local history whose father harvested the last…
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The Plumptre Hospital in Plumptre Square, Nottingham
The Plumptre Hospital in Plumptre Square was founded by John de Plumptre, a wool merchant and sometime Mayor of Nottingham, in 1392 during the reign of Richard II. The hospital was more of…
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The Nonington Poor Houses in Church Street and Easole Street-revised
The system of poor relief in post-Reformation England had its origins early in the reign of Elizabeth I when consolidating Acts of Parliament of 1597 and 1601 established the civil parish as the…
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Beating the Nonington Parish Bounds in 1895
The following are taken from the Nonington parish magazines of May and June of 1895 May, 1895