A rough guide to Basford & Basford Registration District

[Jane Eden]

Hi

There often is confusion for people not local to Nottingham between Basford registration district and the parish of Basford, both of which are totally seperate. I wrote this answer in response to another Rootschatter but thought it may be of general use.

Basford register office covers a huge number of the parishes which lie in the county of Nottinghamshire but are geographically closest to the City of Nottingham.

To make this easy:

-Take a map of Nottinghamshire
-home in on the bottom quarter forget the rest
-a very small section in the middle is either Nottingham or Radford registration districts both cover the City area
-The rest of this bottom quarter covers the South part of Nottingham County
-The right hand strip is Bingham register office
- The very bottom strip is Loughborough
- all the rest is Basford register office

This is a rough guide. Just to confuse everyone there is a parish in Nottingham City called Basford. This comes under Nottingham register office and is nothing to do with the Basford register office which covers the County.

The breakdown of districts can be found on Genuki:

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Gazetteer.html

Jane

[mtp123]

I work there and yes it is confusing you should try explaining it to other people on the phone who do not live in the area.  As a matter of interest we only conduct Marriages here and do not Register Births and Deaths ( these are done at our sub districts)  because we are actually  physically situated in Nottingham Registration area.