The Vikings – An Evening with Peter Liddle

St. Luke’s Church, Hickling, Friday 4th October, 7.30pm

Tickets £5 including tea & biscuits

Proceeds towards the Information Boards Project

We are very excited to share the details for the inaugural Belvoir Angels Society  meeting on Saturday August 10th 2024 which will be held in Nether Broughton.

We feel that it would be nice to move events around the Vale of Belvoir villages; each time we hope to start with a short tour of the Belvoir Angel headstones in the village and then follow up with the event itself.

We hope to include opportunities to ask questions and share information as well as refreshments and informal chats, too.

Please share the poster with friends and neighbours and please, also, consider putting up a poster in your own village, too – all welcome!

We really hope that you will be able to join us and we very much look forward to starting this wonderful project with you all!

Best wishes,

David, Ann, Jane and Jane

Thank you, Richard, for this perfect tribute.

D-day 80 anniversary Commemoration

Hickling Parish Council commemorated the 80^th anniversary of the Normandy landings on 6^th June 1944 by flying the official D-day 80 Flag of peace from the village hall:

We had a lovely weekend celebrating the Belvoir Angels; lots of photographs available.

And our event on Sunday saw the beginning of what we hope will be a successful Belvoir Angels Society for everyone and anyone interested in these beguiling headstones.

The Hickling Local History Group has produced our first in a series of information booklets. This one is written by Carol Beadle and focuses on the Churchyard of St. Luke’s, Hickling.

Please contact us if you would like to buy a copy – the booklet has 24 pages in full colour and they cost £4.50 each.

Plough Open evening – Tuesday 30th April 5pm-8pm

HOW DO WE FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR HOUSES?

Maps, House Deeds and documents, anecdotes – there are many tools that we can use to piece together the history of the houses of Hickling and the stories that emerge are just wonderful.

If you would like to find out more or have some information that you would like to share, please come along on Tuesday!

We are beginning to build up some detailed pages, already: click here

Two dates for your diary – we really hope you would like to come along!

• Tuesday 30th April 5pm-8pm: Plough Inn local history evening – focusing on houses and house deeds plus all things Hickling.
• Belvoir Angels Weekend:
  • Saturday 18th May; Open Day in Church – activities & refreshments
  • Sunday 19th May: Discussion Event in the Village Hall

Chapman’s Map of Nottinghamshire – 1794

(National Library of Scotland)

Historians and researchers can generally rely on maps as a valuable source of information; they can be used to date buildings, boundaries and infrastructure as well as recording names used at the time. We often use reliable map makers as a primary source to verify other data or source material.

So when a post popped up on the Grantham Canal Society’s Facebook page asking for a definitive date for the construction of the Grantham Canal there was a general sense of dismay.

• Nottinghamshire, 1794 – National Library of Scotland (nls.uk)

John Chapman’s map of Nottinghamshire is dated 1794 – it shows the Grantham Canal in place including a branch line to Bingham which was never constructed. The completion of the Grantham Canal wasn’t formally confirmed by Act of Parliament until 1797.

The source of the mapping detail used by John Chapman is easily identified; his map transcribes the plans created in 1792 and published with the proposal submitted to (and passed by) Parliament in 1793. To show the canal as constructed in 1794 was somewhat premature as well as proving to be inaccurate, too.

• A later map of Nottinghamshire produced by Greenwood in 1826 is annotated: ‘Map of the county of Nottingham from an actual survey made in the years 1824 & 1825’ – more accurate and not including the Bingham branchline.
• https://maps.nls.uk/joins/10470.html

The Chapman map offers an interesting insight into the work of mapmakers and how they collated the information recorded on their maps; it also acts as a reminder that historic data does need checking and double-checking …

Click here for images of the maps

Please join us for our next local history talk on Friday March 8th in Hickling Village Hall!