{{Short description|Village in Nottinghamshire}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{infobox UK place | official_name = Screveton | country = England | coordinates = {{coord|52.9853|-0.9118|display=inline,title|scale:25000}} | static_image_name = Hawksworth Road, Screveton - geograph.org.uk - 1611638.jpg | static_image_caption = Hawksworth Road, Screveton | map_type = | population = 164 | population_ref = (2021) | shire_district = Rushcliffe | shire_county = Nottinghamshire | region = East Midlands | constituency_westminster = Newark | post_town = NOTTINGHAM | postcode_district = NG13 | postcode_area = NG | dial_code = 01949 | os_grid_reference = SK 732437 | type = Village and civil parish | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 12 | mapframe-point = none | static_image_2_caption = Parish map | area_total_sq_mi = 2 | london_distance_mi = 105 | london_direction = SSE }} '''Screveton''' (pronounced locally "Screveeton" or "Screeton") is an English civil parish and village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, with (including Kneeton) 191 inhabitants at the 2011 census.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128261&c=Screveton&d=16&e=62&g=6458166&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1460384865342&enc=1 |title=Civil parish population 2011 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |publisher=Office for National statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref> Screveton singularly reported 164 residents at the 2021 census.<ref>{{NOMIS2021|id=E04007999|title=Screveton parish|accessdate=13 February 2024}}</ref> It was formerly in Bingham Rural District and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake. It is adjacent to Kneeton, Flintham, Hawksworth, Scarrington, Little Green and Car Colston.
==Toponymy== Screveton may contain the Old English word ''scīr-rēfa'' for a sheriff or the king's executive, + ''tun'' (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; or an estate, so probably "Sheriff's farm/settlement".<ref>J. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton (eds.), ''Place Names of Nottinghamshire'' (Cambridge, 1940), p. 229; E .Ekwall, ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'' (Oxford, 1960), p. 409.</ref>
==Heritage== Richard Whalley, who died at the old hall in Screveton in 1583, had been elected to Parliament four times in the troubled Tudor period. His three successive wives bore him a total of 25 children. A fine monument to him in the parish church bears an inscription: :Behold his Wives were number three: :Two of them died in right good fame: :The Third this Tomb erected she, :For him who well deserv'd the same. :Both for his life and Godly end, :Which all that knows must needs commend: :And they that knows not, yet may see, :A worthy Whalleye loe was he. :Since time brings all things to an end, :Let us our selves applye, :And learn by this our faithful friend, :That here in Tombe doth lye, :To fear the Lord, and eke beholde :The fairest is but dust and Mold: :For as we are, so once was he: :And as he ys, so must we be."
The hall was demolished in the 1820s.<ref>Cornelius Brown: ''A History of Nottinghamshire'' (1896) [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/Brown1896/screveton.htm Retrieved 13 January 2016.]</ref> The population of the village at the beginning of the 1870s was 241 in 60 houses.<ref name="Great Britain Historical GIS - A Vision of Britain through Time - Screveton Nottinghamshire">{{Cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7751 |title=Screveton Nottinghamshire |work=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=Great Britain Historical GIS |accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref> The main landowners at that time were the politicians Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers, and Thomas Thoroton-Hildyard, a descendant of the 17th-century local historian Robert Thoroton.<ref>A Vision of Britain through Time [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7751 Retrieved 14 January 2016.]</ref> Two young men from Screveton who died for their country in the First World War are remembered on a memorial stone in the village churchyard.<ref>Screveton St Wilfrid War Memorial [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/screveton/hwarmem.php Retrieved 14 January 2016.]</ref>
==Listed buildings== {{main|Listed buildings in Screveton}} St Wilfrid's is a Grade I listed building from the 13th century, restored in the 1880s.<ref name="Southwell"/> Other listed edifices in the village include the Old Priest's House, Top Farmhouse and adjacent buildings, and the circular pinfold,<ref>Listed buildings [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/nottinghamshire/screveton#.VpbjirYrIYu Retrieved 14 January 2016.]</ref> whose unusual shape is also found in pounds at Scarrington and Flintham.<ref>Waymarking. [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMKN64_Scarrington_Village_Pinfold_Nottinghamshire_UK Retrieved 1 January 2016.]</ref>
==Religion== St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton forms a joint Anglican parish with St Mary's Church, Car Colston. They now belong with Flintham, Kneeton and East Bridgford to the Fosse Group of parishes.<ref name="Southwell">Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/screveton/hhistory.php Retrieved 14 January 2016.]</ref> A service of Holy Communion is held at Screveton every two weeks at 10.30 am. Two former Methodist chapels in the village are now residences, but there is still an active Methodist church at Scarrington {{Convert|2.5|mi|km}} away.
==Transport and facilities== Screveton lies 1 mile/1. km from the A46 road between Newark-on-Trent and Leicester, which meets the A52 road between Grantham and Nottingham at Saxondale. The nearest station is at Aslockton, which has daily trains every one or two hours between Nottingham and Grantham or Skegness. Screveton has a service of three buses a day on weekdays to Bingham and to Newark.<ref>Stagecoach [https://www.stagecoachbus.com/timetables Retrieved 13 January 2016.]</ref>
The nearest pub is the ''Royal Oak'' at Car Colston (1 mile/1.6 km). Retail and catering facilities can be found 4 miles/6.4 km away in Bingham. There are primary schools at Flintham (1.9 miles/3.1 km), East Bridgford (2.9 miles/4.7 km) and Bingham.<ref>RM School Finder [http://home.rm.com/SchoolFinder/ShowSchools.aspx?l=Screveton,Nottinghamshire&t=pri Retrieved 13 January 2016.]</ref> Toot Hill School in Bingham is a secondary school with a sixth form and academy status.<ref>Toot Hill School [http://www.toothill.notts.sch.uk/ Retrieved 7 February 2016.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203042245/http://www.toothill.notts.sch.uk/ |date=3 February 2016 }}</ref>
==External sources== *Screveton St Wilfrid. History<ref name="Southwell"/> *Thorotons and Hildyards<ref>[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/thorotonhildyard/thorotonhildyardfamilyhistory.aspx Retrieved 14 January 2016.]</ref> *Screveton Hall<ref>[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/thorotonhildyard/familyseats.aspx Retrieved 14 January 2016.]</ref>
== See also == * Scranton, Pennsylvania
==References== {{reflist|30em}}{{Nottinghamshire|state=expanded}}{{authority control}}
Category:Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Category:Villages in Nottinghamshire Category:Borough of Rushcliffe