:''Alverton can also be a variant of Alverston or Alton.'' Alverton is an English hamlet in the

Newark and Sherwood Newark and Sherwood is a local government district and is the largest district in Nottinghamshire, England. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the municipal borough of Newark with Newark Rural District and Southwell R ...

district of Nottinghamshire. It is joined by neighbouring

Kilvington Kilvington is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, part of the Newark and Sherwood district. Dr Robert Thoroton in ''Antiquities of Nottinghamshire'' mentions enclosure 'about the Year 1750', but an Act of Parliament to enc ...

to form an area for a

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. It contains 22 houses, surrounded by farmland. The River Devon and its tributary, the Winter

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, run along its eastern border. It is covered by the

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of Staunton.

Amenities

There is a Montessori nursery school at Staunton-in-the-Vale (1.6 miles, 2.6 km), primary schools at

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(2.1 miles, 3.4 km) and Bottesford (3.6 miles, 5.8 km), and secondary schools at Bingham (7.3 miles, 11.7 km), Bottesford and

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(7.5 miles, 12.1 km). Alverton has no shops or places of worship. The nearest Anglican church is St Mary's at Staunton and the nearest Methodist church at

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(3.8 miles, 6.1 km). The nearest shopping centres are Bingham and Newark. The closest pubs are the ''Staunton Arms'' at Staunton and the ''Durham Ox'' at Orston. Two buses run through Alverton on Wednesdays and Fridays between Newark and in the one case

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and the other Bottesford. The nearest train service is at

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on the line between Nottingham,

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and

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line.

History

Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in

Newark wapentake Newark was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. Constituents It was in the east of the county with the River Trent forming most of the western boundary. It consisted of the parishes of Alverto ...

. It appears in the 1086

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as ''Alvretun'' and ''Alvritun''. The

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was recorded in 1832 as having only 16 inhabitants. It had been

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in 1806. The Lord of the Manor was recorded as Rev. Dr. Staunton, and its "two farmers" as Robert Cross and Charles Neale. In 1870–72 it had seven houses and a population of 40.

Ghosts

The former Staunton Church of England School in the village is now a private house, said to be haunted by a teacher once murdered there. There have been two purported sightings of a ghost at another house, The Chestnuts, each describing the figure of an elderly lady in Victorian garb, thought to be a former sempstress to

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, Mary Brown, who had returned to Alverton as housekeeper to her widowed brother and ruled his four children "with a rod of iron".

External sources

*Photographs of the old school and schoolmaster's house in 1978 appear in Our Nottinghamshire. *A 2014 photograph of the old school can be seen here. *A 1900 map showing Alverton and neighbouring villages can be found in the National Library of Scotland.Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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References

External links

* *{{OpenDomesday, SK7942, alverton, Alverton *Alverton history in ''Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire...'', 1790
Retrieved 5 January 2014.
Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Hamlets in Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood