# Alverton

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{{short description|Hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{infobox UK place
| country = England
| static_image_caption = Alverton centre
| coordinates = {{coord|52.97|-0.82|display=inline,title|scale:25000}}
| official_name = Alverton
| population = 61
| shire_district = [Newark and Sherwood](/source/Newark_and_Sherwood)
| shire_county = [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire)
| region = East Midlands
| constituency_westminster = [Newark](/source/Newark_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| post_town = NOTTINGHAM
| postcode_district = NG13
| postcode_area = NG
| dial_code = 01949
| os_grid_reference = SK 7942
| type = [Hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place)) and [civil parish](/source/civil_parish)
| static_image_name = Alverton, Nottinghamshire - geograph 3178838.jpg
| static_image_2_caption = Parish map
| mapframe = yes
| mapframe-zoom = 13
| area_total_sq_mi = 0.69
| london_direction = SSE
| london_distance_mi = 105
| population_ref = (2021)
}}
:''Alverton can also be a variant of Alverston or [Alton](/source/Alton_(disambiguation)).''

'''Alverton''' is an English [hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place)) and [civil parish](/source/civil_parish) in the [Newark and Sherwood](/source/Newark_and_Sherwood) district of [Nottinghamshire](/source/Nottinghamshire). It is joined by neighbouring [Kilvington](/source/Kilvington) to form an area for a [parish meeting](/source/parish_meeting). It contains 22 houses surrounded by farmland,<ref>NG13 9PJ postcode [http://www.addressesandpostcodes.co.uk/postcode/unit/NG13-9PJ/ Retrieved 17 January 2016.]</ref><ref>NG13 9PB postcode [http://www.addressesandpostcodes.co.uk/postcode/unit/NG13-9PB/ Retrieved 17 January 2016.]</ref><ref>Alverton & Kilvington Parish Meeting [http://www.akpm.org.uk Retrieved 4 January 2013.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907001002/http://www.akpm.org.uk/ |date=7 September 2011 }}</ref> and reported 61 residents in the [2021 census](/source/2021_United_Kingdom_census).<ref>{{NOMIS2021|id=E04007877|title=Alverton parish|accessdate=29 January 2024}}</ref> The [River Devon](/source/River_Devon%2C_Nottinghamshire) and its tributary, the Winter [Beck](/source/Gill_(stream)), run along its eastern border.

==Amenities==
There is a Montessori nursery school at Staunton-in-the-Vale (1.6 miles, 2.6 km), primary schools at [Orston](/source/Orston) (2.1 miles, 3.4 km) and [Bottesford](/source/Bottesford%2C_Leicestershire) (3.6 miles, 5.8 km), and secondary schools at [Bingham](/source/Bingham%2C_Nottinghamshire) (7.3 miles, 11.7 km), Bottesford and [Newark-on-Trent](/source/Newark-on-Trent) (7.5 miles, 12.1 km).

Alverton has no shops or places of worship. The nearest Anglican church is [St Mary's](/source/Staunton%2C_Nottinghamshire) at Staunton and the nearest Methodist church at [Long Bennington](/source/Long_Bennington) (3.8 miles, 6.1&nbsp;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 [Shelton](/source/Shelton%2C_Nottinghamshire) and the other Bottesford. The nearest train service is at [Bottesford railway station](/source/Bottesford_railway_station) on the line between Nottingham, [Grantham](/source/Grantham) and [Skegness](/source/Skegness) line.

==History==
Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in [Newark wapentake](/source/Newark_wapentake). It appears in the 1086 [Domesday Book](/source/Domesday_Book) as ''Alvretun'' and ''Alvritun''.<ref>''Place Names of Nottinghamshire'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=rBc7AAAAIAAJ&dq=alverton+nottinghamshire&pg=PA1 Retrieved 16 January 2016.]</ref> The [township](/source/Township_(England)) was recorded in 1832 as having only 16 inhabitants. It had been [enclosed](/source/Inclosure_Acts) in 1806. The Lord of the Manor was recorded as Rev. Dr. Staunton, and its "two farmers" as Robert Cross and Charles Neale.<ref>White's Directory, 1832 [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3cHAAAAQAAJ&dq=alverton+nottinghamshire&pg=PA636 Retrieved 16 January 2016.]</ref> In 1870–72 it had seven houses and a population of 40.<ref>Vision of Britain [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7219 Retrieved 16 January 2016.]</ref>

==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](/source/dressmaker) to [Queen Victoria](/source/Queen_Victoria), Mary Brown, who had returned to Alverton as housekeeper to her widowed brother and ruled his four children "with a rod of iron".<ref>''The Nottinghamshire Village Book''. Compiled from materials submitted by Women's Institutes in the County (Newbury/Newark: Countryside Books/NFWI), p. 9.</ref>

==External sources==
*Photographs of the old school and schoolmaster's house in 1978 appear in Our Nottinghamshire.<ref> [http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page_id__1371.aspx Retrieved 16 January 2016.]</ref>
*A 2014 photograph of the old school can be seen here.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3926109 Retrieved 17 January 2016.]</ref>
*A 1900 map showing Alverton and neighbouring villages can be found in the National Library of Scotland.<ref>[http://maps.nls.uk/view/101603226 Retrieved 16 January 2016.]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{OpenDomesday|SK7942|alverton|Alverton}}
*Alverton history in ''Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire...'', 1790. [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76000 Retrieved 5 January 2014.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SCF2FtE4Qw YouTube video - parish visit journal]
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Category:Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire
Category:Hamlets in Nottinghamshire
Category:Newark and Sherwood

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