TEVERSALL (St. Catherine), a parish, in the union of Mansfield, N. division of the hundred of Broxtow and of the county of Nottingham, 4 ½ miles (W. by N.) from Mansfield ; containing 423 inhabitants. The parish comprises about 2500 acres : coal and limestone abound, but neither is now worked. The village is situated on a lofty eminence, near the source of the river Meden. A few persons are employed in stocking-frame weaving. The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £9. 19. 2., and in the gift of the Earl of Carnarvon : the tithes have been commuted for £522. 8.; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains nearly 42 acres. The church is principally in the Norman style, and contains several old monuments of the Greenhalghe, Molyneux, and Babington families; there is a curious arch, said to be Saxon, over the chief entrance, marked with symbolical representations of religious subjects. South of the church are the extensive ruins of the ancient mansion-house, built by Gilbert Greenhalghe in the reign of Henry VII., and the remains of a hanging garden, on a very magnificent scale.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.
