Awsworth Nottinghamshire Awsworht a little village two and half miles west of Nuthall next to the Nottingham canal, The chaplery was part of Nuthall, in the Deanery of Bulwell, where most of the marriages and Baptisms took place at Saint Patricks church on the corner of Nottingham road and Alfreton road until about 1720 when the chaple was consecrated. The curate endowed £50 per year The Earl of Stamford is the patron, and the Rev .S M Lund is the incumbent, for whom the Rev Wm Clementson M A officiates, he resides in a mansion built around 1843 and commands a fine view of Derbyshire and the Leicestershire Hills, The Earl of Stamford is the lord of the manor and principal land owner. The church itself stands on the right as you enter the village at the top of the hill. St Peters The village its self is situated on what seems the side and top of a hill, the population in the early years of 1801 was in the order of 378 and increased to 685 by the year 1851 and to 2,501 by 1901, It lands around are blessed with large coal seams that can be reached from the surface through what were called Drift mines, which must be why the Railways built there lines the Great Northern from Nottingham and Derby, and the Midland, from Bulwell and Watnall. St Peters The first church must have been the Barn-shaped like structure of red brick with nave and Bell,with a Vicarage with the annual fee of £150, which was a gift from The Earl of Stamford. There were two more churches in Aldworth which it used to be called they were a Primitive Methodist and United Free built 1884 at the cost of £300.00, and accommodate 400 people Also built at Awsworth in 1878 was a large building which was to serve as a school with a masters House ,at a cost £2500.00. Awsworth School Called the Awswoth Board school and built on 1878 as shown on the front of the building this picture taken in 2001 when walking through the village. Please take the time to Sign my Guestbook

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