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Hucknall-Torkard in Nottingham County England History and GeographyHUCKNALL-TORKARD, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 6½ miles (N.N.W.) from Nottingham, containing 1940 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £4. 18. 1½., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Portland. The church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, is an ancient edifice, containing several monuments in memory of different members of the Byron family: here lie the remains of the late celebrated poet, George Gordon, Lord Byron; he died at Missolonghi, in Western Greece, in 1824, and was interred here, on the 16th of July in that year, in the family vault, which is beneath the communion table, and contains twelve leaden coffins: in the chancel is a neat mural monument, with an appropriate inscription, to his memory, placed there by his lordship's sister, the Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh. In the church is a book wherein the names of several hundred visitors to the poet's tomb are entered. There is also a monument to his ancestor Richard, Lord Byron, who, with the rest of his family, being seven brothers, faithfully served Charles I. during the civil war, and sustained great losses and hardships on account of his loyalty to that monarch; he died in 1679. Here are places of worship for General Baptists, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. A Sunday school is endowed with £13 per annum, being a third portion of the proceeds of a bequest for charitable purposes by John Byron, in 1571: a parochial school-room was built by subscription in 1815. Frame-work knitting is carried on to a great extent in the parish. On the enclosure of the waste lands twenty-five acres were allotted for the benefit of poor housekeepers, now yielding the sum of £22. 10. per annum. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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