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  Personal recollections from Brian BAGNAL from Texas, January 2005 We first moved to Coddington in 1954.  My father was a Master Technician in the Royal Air force when he was posted to RAF Winthorpe.  The airfield at Winthorpe had not been used since its days as a Heavy Bomber Operational Conversion Unit in WW2.  It was resurrected in 1953 as a Central Servicing Development Establishment (CSDE) unit, with the mission of developing the complex maintenance schedules for the vastly more complicated...

Transcribed from the Newark Advertiser - 6 Mar 1946 CODDINGTON DIAMOND WEDDING MR. & MRS. JAMES HOLLINGWORTH Many friends in the Newark district will extend their congratulations to Mr and Mrs James HOLLINGWORTH, of The Manor Dairy Farm, Coddington, who will celebrate their diamond wedding on Friday. It was on March 8th, 1886 that Mr and Mrs HOLLINGWORTH were married at St. Nicholas’ Church, Nottingham.  At that time the bridegroom was in the butchering trade in Nottingham.  He hailed from Ufton...

In the 1930s and 1940s Arthur HENTON and his wife Clara kept The Plough.  Arthur died in 1945 aged 54, and his wife Clara in 1962.   In 1957 there were two HENTONs: Charles HENTON on Balderton Lane and Montague HENTON at 22 Main St. There are records of HENTONs in the village from the 1840s; two HENTON households appear on the small surviving part of Rev Frederick TAVERNER's 1863 village sketchmap. In 1883 Emily HENTON was appointed as sewing mistress when Joseph Chauntry HUNT became headmaster - she...

“Houghs Yard” and the HOUGHs Following development in 2020, the new road sign at the top of Brownlow’s Hill names the newly erected close of houses set back behind Post Office Row and Brownlow’s House. The reason for the naming of the new close references the HOUGH family.  The HOUGHs were agricultural contractors who owned the land behind Brownlow’s House where they stored their traction engines and threshing machines and which was known locally as Houghs Yard. HOUGHs have been in Coddington...

Coddington History Group Annie Elizabeth (Nancy) Sleight b. 3rd November 1930 d. 25th November 2015           Nancy Slack was born at “Drove Cottage”, Drove Lane, Coddington (the house where Bernard Allen lives) on the 3rd November 1930; her parents were Richard and Elizabeth. The house had four bedrooms but no main services; a kitchen range for heating and cooking on which a kettle would stand all day long. The well was in the garage and the toilet down the yard.            Her father was a smallholder with 13...

The Ransome & Marles Air Raid of 1941 This article is about the Luftwaffe’s air-raid on the Beacon Hill factory of Ransome & Marles, as witnessed by people in Coddington. There is also a link to a list of the names of the people killed as a result of that raid.   Ransome & Marles Ransome and Marles Stanley factory (later RHP and now owned by NSK), although outside of Coddington’s parish border on Beacon Hill, is very close and has undoubtedly played a large part in the life of many Coddington...

    The Roll of Honour Men who served in the armed forces in WWI, as recorded in Coddington Church.  Additional information and biographical details researched by Fred Reed.  Some additional men who were not included in the original list have been found, and CHG is keen that they too should be remembered.   We remember these men connected with our village: those who lost their lives, those who lost their health and those whose lives were damaged by the terrible things they witnessed.  We remember the losses...

  History of the Site of the Beaconfield Drive and Thorpe Oaks Estates   Before 1918 These two housing estates are built on land that once formed part of the Thorpe Coddington Estate. This estate was bought by James Thorpe around 1840, and developed largely by his son James, then later by his grandson, who was killed on the Somme in 1916. When James Thorpe bought the estate from the Fishers, it was called Beaconfield House.   This house and grounds, which appears on the 1835 Sanderson map (and the...

  A Timeline of Coddington 1500 - 1600   1485-1509  Reign of Henry VII   1501    Deed pole. John Capp to Robert Browne of Newerke (and his wife Agnes) all his lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, rents and services in Codyngton; witnesses Thomas Birche, William Spalford, William Lane, Robert Birche, William Birche, Thomas Bristawe, William Cundy all of Codyngton & others.   1501   Coddington document dated 1501, in "Magnus Charity Chest" "(Calendar of various deeds, some of medieval ones relate to Trinity...

The Village Sign and Time Capsule   At the corner of Beckingham Rd, Newark Rd and Brownlow's Hill stands the village sign, next to a seat and small village Millenium Garden. The village sign was designed and painted by a local resident with help from local schoolchildren. It has a time capsule at its base.   Hidden in the trees nearby is the fishpond which is linked to the moat on Balderton Lane. The stream which fed it once flowed into the River Fleet according to an 1806 map, later became a...