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Stanton Hill

Coordinates: 53°08′30″N 1°16′45″W / 53.1417°N 1.2791°W / 53.1417; -1.2791
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Stanton Hill
All Saints Church, Stanton Hill
Stanton Hill is located in Nottinghamshire
Stanton Hill
Stanton Hill
Location within Nottinghamshire
Population2,400 
OS grid referenceSK483607
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSutton in Ashfield
Postcode districtNG17
Dialling code01623
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
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53°08′30″N 1°16′45″W / 53.1417°N 1.2791°W / 53.1417; -1.2791

Stanton Hill is a village in the Ashfield district of Nottinghamshire.

History

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Skegby Colliery, owned by the Dodsley family, was originally located on Wharf Road, which is now in the area known as Stanton Hill, but in the first half of the 19th century was just part of Skegby. It was situated near a triangular piece of land known as Gore Field.[1]

Stanton Hill was first mentioned in the census in 1871, and then only as a street within Skegby. It probably took its name from the Stanton Ironworks Company, which started sinking the Teversal (Butcher Wood) Colliery in 1867, and later the Silverhill Colliery in 1878. Many of the workers for these new collieries moved from other coalmining areas including Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire.

Skegby Colliery was replaced by New Skegby Colliery (later renamed Sutton Colliery) in 1873. It was also known as Brierley Colliery, possibly renamed by the many Staffordshire colliers moving from the Brierley Hill area. This was later taken over by the Blackwell Colliery Company.[2]

The huge increase in population of Skegby – from 805 in 1869 to over 3,000 in 1884 – meant that new housing was required in the immediate area. One hundred and thirty-two houses were initially built on Cooperative Street, Institute Street and Cross Row by the Stanton Ironworks Company, beginning in 1877. However, these street names only developed later, because in 1881 they were all recorded as Stanton Hill. By 1881 Stanton Hill was described as a hamlet within the parish of Skegby.

Mining Tub on the Roundabout, Stanton Hill
The former Victoria hotel in 1960

Two years after the sinking of Silverhill Colliery the Stanton Ironworks Company acquired more land at Meden Bank, on which were built a further one hundred and twenty cottages and allotments for the workforce.

The Blackwell Colliery Company also contributed to the housing in the Stanton Hill area, building the terraces of houses named Longden, Bainbridge, Marshall, Gardiner, Cochrane and Scott's. These streets were named after some of the Directors of the Blackwell Company at the time of construction.

The former Miners Arms, Stanton Hill

All Saints' Church was built in 1899.

Notable residents

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References

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  1. ^ Pike (1901) Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, retrieved 8th February 2023
  2. ^ "Ashfield District Council - Brierley Forest Park and visitor centre". www.ashfield.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
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