Nottinghamshire Contents

Arnold, Daybrook and Red Hill

(Ordnance Survey Grid Reference SK5945)

• Arnold
  

• Daybrook
  
• Red Hill

Arnold Parish extends from three to nearly six miles north of Nottingham, contains 4,704 inhabitants, and 4,670 acres of land, including 2,280 acres of Sherwood Forest. It was enclosed in 1789, when 700 acres were allotted to the impropriator, which was then sold to Thomas Holdsworth Esq., who is subject to the reparation of the church; and 23a 3r 37p were allotted to the Crown.

Arnold is a large and populous village, half a mile east of Mansfield Road, and four miles north of Nottingham. It is pleasantly seated upon a sand rock, and has several neat mansions. The inhabitants are principally employed in framework knitting. Arnold Grove is a beautiful residence, occupied by William Williams Esq., solicitor.

The church, dedicated to St Mary, is a large ancient fabric, with a tower and four bells. A new vestry was added in 1838. The vicarage, valued in the King's books at £7 17s 8d, now at £310, is in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshire. The Rev. George Francis Holcombe is the incumbent, and the Rev. George Atkinson curate, who resides at the vicarage, a commodious mansion near the church. Besides 90a 2r 3p or glebe, the vicar has a yearly modus in lieu of small tithes. The Wesleyans, Kilhamites and Primitive Methodists, and the Particular and General Baptists, have each a chapel in the village. Here is a small National Infant School in the Chapel, which was formerly used by the New Connexion Methodists. The annual feast is on the last Sunday in September.

Daybrook is a considerable hamlet on the Mansfield Road, at the southern verge of the parish, three miles north of Nottingham. Near it is Cockcliff Farm, and a little to the south-east is Swinnows, where there is a brick-yard.

Red Hill is a large village on the Mansfield Road, half a mile west of Arnold. To the north are several forest farms, within the limits of the parish, whence a road diverges to Oxton and Southwell.

Charities The Free School at Arnold was rebuilt, and the master's house repaired, in 1814, at the cost of £135; since which a room has been built over it for a Sunday School. It is endowed with about £22 per annum, for the education of 32 poor children. Its founder was Daniel Chadwick, who endowed it with £50, laid out in the purchase of Roecroft House, for which £12 10s is paid yearly out of the poor rates to the master, and 30s to the poor in respect of £30 left by Bartholomew Fillingham, and expended in the same purchase. Henry Sherbrooke Esq. left a yearly rent charge of £5 to the school, and Margaret Birch left £2 yearly for the same purpose. In 1785, Rebecca Elley bequeathed to it the interest of £6, and the master receives £5 yearly as one moiety of the rent of Denison Land, which was purchased with poor's money, of which there still remained £34, the interest thereof ought to be distributed in bread, but like many other charities, this has been lost for many years. Henry Sherbrook Esq. left £3 per annum to be distributed in bread amongst the poor on the fifth of November.

 
Residents of Arnold Parish, 1853.

White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853

Population Table