Saundby is a hamlet and
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in
Nottinghamshire
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two miles west of
Gainsborough. Although it comes under Beckingham cum Saundby
parish council, by 2011 it had become a separate civil parish in its own right. The parish is bordered on one side by the
River Trent
The Trent is the third Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, longest river in the United Kingdom. Its Source (river or stream), source is in Staffordshire, on the southern edge of Biddulph Moor. It flows through and drains the North Midlands ...
. The village
Church of St Martin was extensively restored in 1885.
Profile
Saundby Origin – Saun+by (+by – farmstead of) Danish origin, possibly when the Danes travelled inland up the River Idle and settled in the area). Saundby is a small hamlet adjoining Beckingham with a population reported in the
census of 2021 of 88.
Saundby was a village of farmstead and small holdings. At one point a cheese farm existed as a way of dealing with excess milk that arose when the school canteens were closed.
Population
The ''very'' small population of around 100 people
in Saundby has had little or no change in the last 50 years. The population was measured at 165 at the 2011 census (including Beckingham),
and 88 for the 2021 census.
History
A worker with
Eve Transmission, 33 year old Jeremy Dunn, from Allerton Grange Close in Leeds, fell to his death from an electrical 400kV transmission tower on Tuesday 22 June 1993, north of
West Burton power station. The electrical transmission line lies to the east of the village. Eve Transmission was in
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Sutton-in-Ashfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 36,404 in 2021. It is the largest town in the district of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, Ashfield, four miles west of Mansfield, from the Derbyshire border and ...
; in 1989 another employee, 30 year old Simon Bulmer, at
Ossington, fell 60 ft from a pylon at 12.30pm on Wednesday 25 October 1989, and had to be taken to the
Queen's Medical Centre
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by police escort.
[''Newark Advertiser'' Friday 27 October 1989, page 1]
See also
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Listed buildings in Saundby
References
External sites
YouTube video - parish visit journal{{Nottinghamshire, state=expanded
Bassetlaw District
Hamlets in Nottinghamshire
Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire