Screveton

Screveton
Screveton
Screveton shown within Nottinghamshire
Population	191 (2011)
OS grid reference	SK732437
District	Rushcliffe
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NOTTINGHAM
Postcode district	NG13

Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
EU Parliament	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Rushcliffe
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 52°59′07″N 0°54′42″W / 52.9853°N 0.9118°W / 52.9853; -0.9118Coordinates: 52°59′07″N 0°54′42″W / 52.9853°N 0.9118°W / 52.9853; -0.9118

Screveton (pronounced locally "Screveeton" or "Screeton") is a parish and village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England with about 100 inhabitants, increasing (including Kneeton) to 191 at the 2011 Census. 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.

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".

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:

The hall was demolished in the 1820s. The population of the village at the beginning of the 1870s was 241 in 60 houses. 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. 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.

St Wilfrid's is a Grade I listed building from the 13th century, restored in the 1880s. Other listed edifices in the village include the Old Priest's House, Top Farmhouse and adjacent buildings, and the circular pinfold, whose unusual shape is also found in pounds at Scarrington and Flintham.

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