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".[3]
Heritage
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:
Behold his Wives were number three:
Two of them died in right good fame:
The Third this Tomb erected she,
For him who well deserv'd the same.
Both for his life and Godly end,
Which all that knows must needs commend:
And they that knows not, yet may see,
A worthy Whalleye loe was he.
Since time brings all things to an end,
Let us our selves applye,
And learn by this our faithful friend,
That here in Tombe doth lye,
To fear the Lord, and eke beholde
The fairest is but dust and Mold:
For as we are, so once was he:
And as he ys, so must we be."
The hall was demolished in the 1820s.[4] The population of the village at the beginning of the 1870s was 241 in 60 houses.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
St Wilfrid's is a Grade I listed building from the 13th century, restored in the 1880s.[8] Other listed edifices in the village include the Old Priest's House, Top Farmhouse and adjacent buildings, and the circular pinfold,[9] whose unusual shape is also found in pounds at Scarrington and Flintham.[10]
Religion
St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton forms a joint Anglican parish with St Mary's Church, Car Colston. They now belong with Flintham, Kneeton and East Bridgford to the Fosse Group of parishes.[8] A service of Holy Communion is held at Screveton every two weeks at 10.30 am. Two former Methodist chapels in the village are now residences, but there is still an active Methodist church at Scarrington 2.5 miles (4.0 km) away.
The nearest pub is the Royal Oak at Car Colston (1 mile/1.6 km). Retail and catering facilities can be found 4 miles/6.4 km away in Bingham. There are primary schools at Flintham (1.9 miles/3.1 km), East Bridgford (2.9 miles/4.7 km) and Bingham.[12]Toot Hill School in Bingham is a secondary school with a sixth form and academy status.[13]
^J. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p. 229; E .Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p. 409.
