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A small group of local residents in Tollerton, Notts have formed a history group and are currently gathering information and stories about the village and its inhabitants. If there are GR members out there who have lived in Tollerton and have information/stories that they are willing to share l would be pleased to hear from you. We are gathering information under specific topics e.g. schools, farming, transport, shops, houses, clubs, airport, etc
Hoping to hear from a few GR members
Thanks
Yvonne Burbanks
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Maybe not exactly what you're after, but...
Lewis (1848) covers all of England - it's worth a lookup
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=445
One can lookup Tollerton - go to:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
It takes you to a modern map - embedded in the URL it took me to was
x=461751&y=334936
These are the OS coordinates for the arrowhead, measured to the nearest metre.
The zero datum point is abt 80km W of Bishop Rock lighthouse in the Scilly Isles.
The measure the easting (x) and the northing (y) from this point.
The blue grid lines on the map are 1km apart, so I can eyeball the coords for St Peters as 461500,334700.
I can then go to
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html
and input the coords, and look at old maps of various dates.
You'll soon realize that you want a 1:2500 or larger scale (i.e, a 25" map) for satisfactory viewing - 1:10560 (i.e., a 6" map) is just too small-scale.
The site covers GB & IoM.
For modern pics of the British Isles, do a search at:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/
[The extension to Ireland is more recent, and coverage there is less thorough]
This takes me to:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/SK6034
This is the 1km x 1km square just W of the church, but there's compas rose style navigational link by the map that gets me to adjacent squares.
There's a pic there of St Peter's:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/940067
Note in the details underneath, one finds:
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SK 615 347 [100m precision]
I can extend this new Landranger style ref of SK 615 347 to a somewhat spurious 1m precision as SK 61500 34700.
Comparing this with my eyeball old style OS ref of 461500,334700, and it's clear how to convert from one to the other if one knows the magic letters are SK for the leading digits 4,3.
SK essentially covers all of histric Notts.
[I say "essentially" as Notts might extend a couple of 100m into SE at its northernmost tip.
Notts's northernmost parish was Finningley, which included Blaxton Yks(W.R.).
Blaxton and Finningley are only 1km apart, so the old county line must have run between them, but the SE/SK boundary runs between them, too, and I don't know the precise location of the county line.]
Incidentally, Streetmap lets me search for 461500,334700 and SK615347 and SK6150034700 (all with no embedded blanks)
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If you haven't already, could you start a website which would come up on an internet search? How about getting your group mentioned on http://www.tollerton.org/
Ask the local primary school to include a paragraph in their next news letter asking for 'memories'?
Poster in the local shop/library/free newspaper? The latter might be willing to write an article.
Even though getting the group off the ground might be hard work, the information you manage to collect is worth preserving.
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Hello Yvonne and welcome to the Community Boards.
Sadly, it's not very likely that anyone connected with Tollerton will see your post as that isn't how these boards work.
However, if you have some names which are pertinent to the village ie those who died in the First World War, or maybe a former incumbent of the church or a famous (infamous) character, you may be able to discover if a member of GR has them in their tree. Click on Search/search all members trees above and enter any details you know. If you find a connection, you can contact the tree owner to see if they have any information for you - maybe stories which have been handed down and even photographs.
Good luck - it sounds like fun.
Note. I will let Yvonne know that she has replies to her query. :-)
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