Screveton

Also known as Screveton, Nottinghamshire

Screveton (pronounced locally "Screveeton" or "Screeton") is an English civil parish and village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, with (including Kneeton) 191 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Screveton singularly reported 164 residents at the 2021 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.

Key facts

UK place.mapframe zoom: 12
UK place.official_name: Screveton
UK place.country: England
UK place.static_image_name: Hawksworth Road, Screveton - geograph.org.uk - 1611638.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Hawksworth Road, Screveton
UK place.population: 164
UK place.population_ref: (2021)
UK place.shire_district: Rushcliffe
UK place.shire_county: Nottinghamshire
UK place.region: East Midlands
UK place.constituency_westminster: Newark
UK place.post_town: NOTTINGHAM
UK place.postcode_district: NG13
UK place.postcode_area: NG
UK place.dial_code: 01949
UK place.os_grid_reference: SK 732437
UK place.type: Village and civil parish
UK place.mapframe: yes

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==Toponymy== 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".

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