Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Weathervane at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England

I post a series of weather vane photographs every Wednesday.  This started with images of weathervanes from the Londonderry, New Hampshire area, but now I've found interesting weather vanes all across New England and across the globe.  Sometimes my weather vanes are whimsical, or historical, but all are interesting.  This series of 400 weathervane posts is almost complete, and will be posted by the end of this month.

Today's weather vane was photographed in England.

Do you know the location of weathervane post #398?  Scroll down to find the answer.

The local songbirds enjoy
perching on this!

Mayflower and Great Migration historians and genealogists will recognize Scrooby as the birthplace of the Pilgrim Father William Brewster ( 1568 - 1644).  Brewster was the elder and leader of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  William Brewster's father was the Bailiff of the manor house at Scrooby.  Scrooby Manor is famous in Mayflower history as the place where secret meetings of the Separatist movement took place between 1606 and 1607, before the Separatists fled to Holland.

This weathervane is over the village Anglican church, St. Wilfrid's, built in the 15th century.  The steeple has an octagonal spire. William Brewster probably worshiped in St. Wilfrid's before attending services at All Saints Church in Babworth where the Separatist Rev. Richard Clyfton inspired William Brewster and William Bradford to form their own congregation at Scrooby Manor.

I visited Scrooby and Scrooby Manor last year with the General Society of Mayflower Descendants Historic Sites tour.  We were given a private tour of Scrooby Manor by author Sue Allan, and lunch at the nearby Separatist Inn by the members of the Pilgrim Fathers UK Origins Association.

Our tour group at Scrooby Manor

You can read about our trip to Scrooby at this link:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/along-pilgrim-trail-scrooby-manor.html    

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday ~ A Weathervane at Scrooby Manor", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 16, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/01/weathervane-wednesday-weathervane-at.html: accessed [access date]).