Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AVERHAM

AVERHAM, a township and a parish in Southwell district, Notts. The township lies at the confluence of the Greet river with the Trent, adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 2 miles W by N of Newark. Real property, £4,049. Pop., 175. Houses, 36. The parish includes also the township of Staythorpe; and its Post Town is Newark. Acres, 2,646. Real property, £5,299. Pop., 237. Houses, 48. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to Sir William Sutton; who is commemorated by a curious monument in the church. Averham Hall is the parsonage. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Kelham, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £1,435.* Patron, J. H. M. Sutton, Esq. The church is good. The monument to Sir William Sutton records that he had sixteen children; one half of whom

Ushered to heaven their father; and the other
Remained behind him to attend their mother.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Averham CP/AP       Southwell RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Averham

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