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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 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 from the town of Bingham and from a stretch of the Roman roads Fosse Way (A46) between Newark and Leicester.Scarrington Appraisal and Management Plan Retrieved 1 January 2016. It is skirted by the A52 road between Nottingham and Grantham.
The member of Parliament (MP) for Newark, the constituency in which Scarrington is located in, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick.
Scarrington and Aslockton shared several landowners and could be covered by a joint Inclosure Acts in 1781.Aslockton Local History Retrieved 16 January 2016. The population of Scarrington was 152 in 1801, 171 in 1821, and 188 in 1831.William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire... (Sheffield, 1832), p. 479. Retrieved 3 April 2016. 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.Rushcliffe. Retrieved 1 January 2016. 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.Nottinghamshire Villages Retrieved 13 June 2017.
The medieval Anglican parish Church of St John of Beverley, Scarrington, a 13th-century building restored by J. H. Hakewill in 1867–1869, is Grade I listed.Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (Harmondsworth, United Kingdom: Penguin, 1979), p. 304. The belfry has three bells dated 1450.St John of Beverley Retrieved 4 January 2016. A Methodist chapel was built in 1818.William White: History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire... (Sheffield, 1832), p. 504. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
Another Grade II listed edifice is the village animal pound opposite the Smithy. It has 1.83 m brick walls with copings and is unusual in being circular. However, the pinfolds at nearby Flintham and Screveton are also circular, and it is suggested that all three were built by the same unidentified builder in the 19th century. Scarrington's has a diameter of 6.1 m. Renovation was carried out on it in 1988 and 2012.Waymarking. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
The village's third Grade II listed building is the old hall, Scarrington House in Hawksworth Road, built about 1700 for the Shipman family, prominent in the village since Elizabethan times. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
There was a hamlet of some 16 cottages known as Little Lunnon to the south of Scarborough. These thatched dwellings of poor quality were built in the mid-18th century to house the "impotent poor", under powers given to parish overseers under the Poor Relief Act 1601. That purpose was strictly served until the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, after which the destitute poor were sent to Bingham workhouse instead, but many Little Lunnon cottages remained occupied. The last two derelict cottages were demolished by the council as uninhabitable in 1945.Notts Villages Retrieved 1 January 2016. Many houses for the poor in earlier centuries were built on waste land, which may explain why the hamlet stood apart from the village.Undated Newark Advertiser article "Homes made of mud" Retrieved 4 January 2016.Our Nottinghamshire Retrieved 16 January 2016.
Here is an extract from A Topographical Dictionary of England (London: S. Lewis, 1848): "SCARRINGTON, a parish, in the union, and N. division of the wapentake, of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 12½ miles (E. by N.) from Nottingham; containing 230 inhabitants. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Orston: the tithes were commuted for land and money payments in 1780. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans." The parish link with Orston lasted until February 1867, when the chapelry of Scarrington was combined with that of Aslockton (hitherto under Whatton) to make a new vicarage: Scarrington-with-Aslockton.John Thomas Godfrey: Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham (Phillimore, 1907), p. 346. The two parishes separated again in 1919, when Aslockton, with its newly built church, was paired again with Whatton.Aslockton St Thomas Retrieved 22 February 2016.
Scarrington's Women's Institute (WI) meets at the WI Hall, Hawksworth Road, on the first Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm.The WI Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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