Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OXTON

OXTON, a village and a parish in Southwell district, Notts. The village stands in Sherwood forest, near Dover beck, 4¾ miles N W of Lowdham r. station, and 5. W S W of Southwell; and has a post-office under Southwell. The parish contains Robinhood's Pot, Robinhood's Hill, Holbecks, Grangefield, and Fallows; and comprises 3, 580 acres. Real property, £5, 409. Pop. in 1851, 850; in 1861, 738. Houses, 175. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with Oxton Hall, belongs to H. Sherbrooke, Esq. There are three barrows; and one of them, 53 feet in diameter, was opened in 1789. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, alternately the Bishop of Lincoln and the Prebendary of Oxton in Southwell. The church is an old stone building., with a low tower; and was repaired in 1841. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £26 a year, six alms-houses rebuilt in 1852, and other charities £84.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Oxton AP/CP       Southwell RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Oxton

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