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Scarrington
52°57′57″N 0°54′25″W / 52.965834°N 0.906966°W
Scarrington is an English civil parish and small village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. Its 968 acres (392 ha; 3.92 km2; 1.513 sq mi) had a population in the 2011 census of 183, falling to 167 at the 2021 census. It lies at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK7341 in the undulating farmland of the Vale of Belvoir, some 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of the Roman Fosse Way (A46) between Newark and Leicester. It is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham.
Most local government functions are performed by Rushcliffe Borough Council. The borough election results on 7 May 2015 confirmed Conservative control. Scarrington lies in Bingham East ward and its small population qualifies it only for a twice-yearly Parish Meeting, not a Parish Council.
The member of Parliament (MP) for Newark, the constituency in which Scarrington is located in, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick.
Scarrington may contain the Old English word, scearnig meaning dirty, filthy or mucky, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; or an estate, so perhaps "Dirty farm or settlement".
A flint sickle blade found at Scarrington in 1981 was dated to the late Neolithic age. There is also evidence that Scarrington was inhabited in Roman times (2nd–3rd century AD), in the shape of tools and remains of a villa. These were found while laying a water pipe in February/March 1991 between the village and Car Colston. Scarrington is noted in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Scarintone" and as belonging to the king. It had 27 households.
Scarrington and Aslockton shared several landowners and could be covered by a joint enclosure act in 1781. The population of Scarrington was 152 in 1801, 171 in 1821, and 188 in 1831. The size of the village changed little from the time of enclosure up to the 20th century, when some building took place northward along Hawksworth Road. A few working farms remain, but most inhabitants commute to work or school. Scarrington was in Bingham Rural District up to 1974 and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake.
The village lies mainly within a conservation area, established in 1990 and extended in October 2010, which includes four listed buildings, mature trees and wide grass verges. There is a unique 15-ft (4.88 m) pile of horseshoes outside the Grade II listed Smithy. It consists of some 50,000 discarded horseshoes, and was constructed by the village blacksmith between about 1945 and 1965, while working in the adjacent Old Forge.
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Scarrington
52°57′57″N 0°54′25″W / 52.965834°N 0.906966°W
Scarrington is an English civil parish and small village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, adjacent to Bingham, Car Colston, Hawksworth, Orston and Aslockton. Its 968 acres (392 ha; 3.92 km2; 1.513 sq mi) had a population in the 2011 census of 183, falling to 167 at the 2021 census. It lies at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK7341 in the undulating farmland of the Vale of Belvoir, some 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of the Roman Fosse Way (A46) between Newark and Leicester. It is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham.
Most local government functions are performed by Rushcliffe Borough Council. The borough election results on 7 May 2015 confirmed Conservative control. Scarrington lies in Bingham East ward and its small population qualifies it only for a twice-yearly Parish Meeting, not a Parish Council.
The member of Parliament (MP) for Newark, the constituency in which Scarrington is located in, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick.
Scarrington may contain the Old English word, scearnig meaning dirty, filthy or mucky, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; or an estate, so perhaps "Dirty farm or settlement".
A flint sickle blade found at Scarrington in 1981 was dated to the late Neolithic age. There is also evidence that Scarrington was inhabited in Roman times (2nd–3rd century AD), in the shape of tools and remains of a villa. These were found while laying a water pipe in February/March 1991 between the village and Car Colston. Scarrington is noted in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Scarintone" and as belonging to the king. It had 27 households.
Scarrington and Aslockton shared several landowners and could be covered by a joint enclosure act in 1781. The population of Scarrington was 152 in 1801, 171 in 1821, and 188 in 1831. The size of the village changed little from the time of enclosure up to the 20th century, when some building took place northward along Hawksworth Road. A few working farms remain, but most inhabitants commute to work or school. Scarrington was in Bingham Rural District up to 1974 and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake.
The village lies mainly within a conservation area, established in 1990 and extended in October 2010, which includes four listed buildings, mature trees and wide grass verges. There is a unique 15-ft (4.88 m) pile of horseshoes outside the Grade II listed Smithy. It consists of some 50,000 discarded horseshoes, and was constructed by the village blacksmith between about 1945 and 1965, while working in the adjacent Old Forge.
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