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Church View, NEWARK, NG22 8TB

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 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.

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.

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.

A path on the east side of the graveyard that provide rear access to a house at the closed end of the Church Hill cul-de-sac, and by taking a left turn near to where the on-coming walkers are, a public footpath towards the local tip/ recycling centre.

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?

The main track leads from Kirklington Road (behind the photographer) towards a covered reservoir ahead that is sandwiched between Eakring Brail Wood and Long Springs Wood. The footpath running in a north-easterly direction, parallel with the metal fencing, leads to Brail Wood Road (within 5 mins). The fence provides security for a vehicle-dismantling and scrap yard.