Fledborough
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Fledborough is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England. Although now redundant, the Anglican parish church of St Gregory's, earned the hamlet the nickname of "the Gretna Green of the Midlands" in the 18th century, due to the ease in which couples could obtain a marriage licence from the Reverend W. Sweetapple.
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Vinony files it under Bassetlaw District, Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire and Hamlets in Nottinghamshire.
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- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bassetlaw
- Population
- 38
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Fledborough is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England. Although now redundant, the Anglican parish church of St Gregory's, earned the hamlet the nickname of "the Gretna Green of the Midlands" in the 18th century, due to the ease in which couples could obtain a marriage licence from the Reverend W. Sweetapple.
The Bassett family effectively owned Fledborough from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fledborough” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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