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Cheyne Drive, NEWARK, NG22 8SB

The south side of this Grade I-listed Parish Church. It has a history of developments in the C13th, C14th, C15th and C16th with major restoration work in 1663 and then finally in 1873 by T. C. Hine of Nottingham.

A view of the summit of Church Hill, a cul-de-sac, from the steps of St Margaret's Church. A path within the Church's 'overspill' cemetery is visible in the background.

Steps leading up to the church. St Margaret's Church is situated at the summit of Church Hill. The Rev. William Mompesson (of Eyam, the plague village) was the rector of both Wellow + Bilsthorpe & Eakring in the mid-1600s. The practice of “a living” being held in plurality, usually within that of the more populous parish, was apparently a common occurrence until this time. Later on in the same decade, Mompesson made his ill-fated move with his young family to Eyam, Derbyshire. From 1671 Mompesson held the parishes of Bilsthorpe and Eakring in plurality whilst residing most of the time at Eakring. He resigned the Bilsthorpe rectory in 1688 and at the end of July in that year Rev John Raworth was instituted as his successor. Raworth had been curate here for five years and less than a year after becoming rector, he married Elizabeth Mompesson, who had been sent away from Eyam as a 3 year old to escape the 1666 plague. At the time of her dispatch, the Rev. John Raworth was the ten year old son of the Eyam schoolmaster.

Church Hill, a cul-de-sac, is seen here joining/leaving Kirklington Road.

This OS cut mark can be found on the SW angle of St Margaret's Church. It marks a point 82.357m above mean sea level.

Largely fourteenth century though the window is a sixteenth century insertion.

The east-facing end of this Grade I-listed Parish Church with the different colours and sizes of stones providing evidence of extensions and developments.

A corner of a recreation ground at the junction with Maid Marian Avenue and a couple of 'local' shops. Farnsfield Road - ahead - can be reached within a few minutes on foot.

The steps, trodden by thousands of people over the centuries, are at the top of the quite steep Church Hill. Possibly the highest point in Bilsthorpe?