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West Stockwith Village Trail West Stockwith Village Heritage Trail St West Stockwith Village Trail West Stockwith Village Heritage trail St. Mary’s Chapel of Ease: The Church also had a row of (Point 1) attached almshouses for the poor This trail around the village gives a route that can be started from of the parish - the course of their whichever point you wish and followed as far around the village as rooflines can still be seen in the you feel. brickwork at the rear of the Church. There are two points at which it is easiest to start, however. The Behind St. Mary's is the building village has two car parks suitable for visitors, both of which are that was used as the village's opposite or alongside one of the two public houses of the village. Wesleyan Methodist chapel until the 1930s. Starting at either of these points allows a circular route around the village, with the public houses providing handy areas to break up the This chapel was used by many trail into smaller pieces whilst allowing time to rest and refuel. villagers, with services also attended by parishioners from Of course, this trail does not detail all the history of West Stockwith, nearby villages. so more information can be found by contacting the local history The Church of the Blessed Virgin group: Mary was built in 1722 in order to help serve the spiritual needs The chapel ran a Sunday school, but due to its size the West Stockwith Parish Council of the village. It was raised thanks to the donations of schoolroom was further down the c/o The Gertrude Morris Hall, village by the side of the water Main Street, William Huntingdon, who lies interred in the chapel. lane marked Point 7. It was also West Stockwith used as a meeting and practice DN10 4HA room for the chapel band, though it was known to flood email: [email protected] occasionally! Sepulchre of William Huntingdon West Stockwith’s water lanes: The old primitive Methodist (Points 2-4, 6-8 and 10) chapel: (Point 9) These historic This chapel used to stand on the routes between site that is now home to Fox the houses of House, north of the area of the the village old Malt Kiln. It was a place of helped supply worship for the Primitive people living Methodists of the area, who here with fresh One of the village’s believed in simple services and restored waterlanes water. surroundings, rather than the For more information, see the more impressive offices of the local heritage interpretation Church of England. This area of Reconstruction of The Mayflower The Aegir at Stockwith in 2000. ©Margret Arbon board in the Nottinghamshire was well known Malt Kiln area of the village. for non-conformist worshippers in Passage of the Pilgrim Fathers: The Aegir: (Point 12) the past, the most famous of (Point 11) The Malt Kiln: these later becoming known as The Aegir is the name given to (Point 5) the Pilgrim Fathers. A walk along the village towards the action of the tidal bore of the the canal basin will bring you to River Trent. Occasional surges of This was once the location of the the point where the River Idle water at high tides from the river Malt Kiln, where cereal crops joins the Trent. This may be the estuary at the Humber will force would have been prepared ready point where the religious water back upriver against the for brewing in the village. For travellers now known as the flow of the Trent. This creates a more information, see the Pilgrim Fathers, from the nearby miniature tidal wave that has interpretation board in the old villages of Babworth, Scrooby previously been recorded at Malt Kiln area of the village. and Bawtry came to transfer to heights of up to 1.5m (5ft) high. larger ships. These would take Site of the old Primitive Methodist Chapel, c1900 them, via the River Humber, away from religious persecution in England. Conjectured portrait of Etching of the village malt kiln Site of the old Primitive Methodist Chapel today William Brewster, a Pilgrim Elder West Stockwith 10 Village Trail 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 11 1 15 14 12 13 18 17 16 2 shillings per week. Instead of paying this much, many workers bought boats in groups and rowed across the Trent to work. Local stories state the ferry rarely suffered any problems, but there were a few occasions when it foundered. One accident West Stockwith ferry circa 1890 drowned a ferry-load of cattle West Stockwith Ferry: when their moving weight tipped (Point 13) the platform into the water during bad weather. The winch operated ferry was the quickest way to cross the river Trent for the people of both East Site of the former bridge now and West Stockwith. The ferry went from the area in front of The former bridge: East Stockwith’s ‘Ferry House’ (Point 14) pub (The white building opposite), straight across the This wall hides the remains of a Trent to land on the Western bridge that ran across to the bank. Behind the houses current road. This bridge was opposite there is still an area West Stockwith ferry circa 1900 probably placed here in order to called ‘Ferry Landing’ from the cross the Mother Drain, which Early Ordnance Survey map showing the bridge days that East and West drew water out of the River Idle Stockwith were linked by the upriver of Misterton Carr. ferry’s chains. The course of the Mother Drain More recently, the mother drain In the first half of the 19th can still be traced in maps of has been halted a little way century, William Morris brought 1901 as crossing the main road before the field opposite, with his Chemical Works to West at this point, with the bridge pumps upstream to divert water Stockwith making manures, possibly installed by the away from its old route to the sheep dips and disinfectants. It Chesterfield Canal Company. Trent. cost workers a penny per trip, making commuting costs for workers living in East Stockwith The Dutch Houses: (Point 15) Stone for the Houses of Hatfield Chase, in the counties of Parliament: Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and (Point 16) Lincolnshire. Several of the nearby fields were apparently drained by the works. Vermuyden’s land reclamation was unpopular with commoners, as he reduced the amount of common land that was theirs to use freely, creating drained enclosed land that was then granted to landowners, with some land being granted to Vermuyden himself. “Dutch House” style from Oude Doelenkade, Holland Many local attacks and These houses are built with skirmishes followed Vermuyden and his works, to the extent that ornamentation in imitation of the The Palace of Westminster popular Dutch style of the 17th he was given Royal permission to century. This is to commemorate erect a gallows The original Houses of Woodhouse being floated to West the influence of Vermuyden in wherever he was Parliament burnt down in 1834. Stockwith, where it was the area, who was appointed by draining land to One of the quarries chosen to transferred to Humber sloops. King Charles I to drain and deal with any provide stone for the buildings reclaim lands for cultivation on attacks upon his that stand today was North From West Stockwith, the sloops the Isle of Axeholme and at workers. Anston, in south Yorkshire, sailed down the Trent, the another being Parliament Quarry Humber and into the North Sea, in Mansfield Woodhouse. then down the east coast to the Thames and the Westminster The new blocks of stone were embankment. It took four years dragged by cart to the to carry the amount of stone Chesterfield Canal at Dog needed to rebuild the Houses of Kennels Bridge, Kiveton Park. Parliament, much of it passing The stone was loaded onto boats through West Stockwith Basin. and taken down the canal, to join the stone from Mansfield Signature of Cornelius Vermuyden West Stockwith Basin: The Chesterfield Canal: (Point 17) (Point 18) This is an area that has long Built between 1771 and 1777, been involved in the boatbuilding this canal continued the village’s business, tying the village to river links with water transport, and is traffic. For more information, see still used today by cruising the interpretation board opposite narrow boats. For more the lock gates at the basin. information, see the interpretation board opposite the lock gates at the basin. Tomlinson’s Boatyard in Stockwith basin c1900 Chesterfield Canal Cuckoo Boats West Stockwith Parish Council c/o The Gertrude Morris Hall Main Street West Stockwith DN10 4HA email: [email protected] DP&P/04.08/COM/5713.
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