Welbeck

For Welbeck Colliery Village, see Meden Vale. For other uses, see Welbeck (disambiguation).

Welbeck is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck, in the Bassetlaw district, in Nottinghamshire, England. It is slightly to the south-west of Worksop.^[1] In 2001 the parish had a population of 31.^[2]

Welbeck
Le Parc de Welbeck, after Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Welbeck Location within Nottinghamshire
Population	31 (2001 census)
Civil parish	Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck
District	Bassetlaw
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 53.261°N 1.168°W / 53.261; -1.168

Welbeck became a coal-mining centre in 1912^[3] and has a famous stately home, Welbeck Abbey, home of the Dukes of Portland,^[4] and which was founded in the twelfth century as a monastery.^[5]

The cricketer Ted Alletson, who held a batting world record for 50 years, is from Welbeck.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand accepted an invitation from the Duke of Portland to stay at Welbeck Abbey and arrived with his wife, Sophie, by train at Worksop on 22 November 1913. This was almost a year before his assassination, which triggered the First World War. The Archduke narrowly avoided being killed in a freak hunting accident during his stay.^[6]

Civil parish

Welbeck was formerly an extra-parochial tract,^[7] from 1858 Welbeck was a civil parish in its own right,^[8] on 1 April 2023 the parish was abolished and merged with Holbeck, Norton and Cuckney to form "Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck".^[9]

Colliery

The Welbeck Colliery operated from 1912 to 2011, with a maximum of 1,400 miners producing 1.5 million tons per year. It was eventually operated by UK Coal after the dissolution of the National Coal Board.^[10] In 2010 UK Coal were fined £1.2 million of safety breaches at Welbeck Colliery that resulted in the death of a worker.^[11]

See also

• Listed buildings in Welbeck

References

1. Maps of the world, country map search – powered by Multimap
2. Neighbourhood Statistics
3. Welbeck
4. Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | Great Houses of Nottinghamshire: Welbeck (part 1)
5. Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | Miscellaneous articles: Country Homes: Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1)
6. BBC News 25 November 2013: "Could Franz Ferdinand Welbeck gun accident have halted WWI?" Accessed 25 November 2013
7. "History of Welbeck, in Bassetlaw and Nottinghamshire". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
8. "Relationships and changes Welbeck ExP/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
9. "The Bassetlaw (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2022" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
10. "Welbeck Colliery". UK coal. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
11. "UK Coal fined over miner deaths at Daw Mill and Welbeck". BBC News. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.

External links

Media related to Welbeck at Wikimedia Commons