Aslockton Nottinghamshire Aslockton, March 18th 1540 Kings land; Wakelin from Walter de Aincourt Gilbert de Ghent; Wulfic from ilbert de Lacy; Wulfic from the King Ancient earthwork, the county only 3 mud cottages. Aslockton half c. of landtaxable, land for one and a half ploughs.9 freemen have three ploughs Nestling in the rolling hills of south east Nottinghamshires is the sleepy village of Aslockton where the church is dedicated to St Thomas, built in 1891 and consecrated on July 21st 1892 built in the early english style and designed by Sir Arther Bloomfield. Up the pathway from main Road St Thomas church is built of Ancaster stone and consists of a Nave, chancel and vestries on the north side: a south isle, with south porch and an organ chamber, the tower has one single bell. The chancel looking towards the doors Early years of the Cranmer family, the old Manor House has dissappered said to be on a woodland walk called Cranmers walk that windes its way towards the village of Orston,not far from the church there was some earhtworks, beleived to be that of the 7th century mott and bailey of the castle known to many as Cranmers mount where as the boy Archbishop use to spend all his time sitting here listening to the country side and the church bells of Whatton church. Lighting the way In 1489 there was a birth in the village that was to be come famous over the next sixty years Thomas Cramer, at 14 he was sent to Cambridge where he applied himself to his new learning and he became the first Protestant Archbishop of Cantabury and translated the moden Bible. Into the Nave His first act within a week of being primate of England was to marry Henry eighth to Anne Boleyn only to three years later to declare the marriage as bigamous and null and void and he died for his faith in March 1556 being beheaded. Please take the time to Sign my Guestbook

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