Kirton Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Kirton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Other places in the parish include: Willoughby.
Alternative names: Kirkton
Parish church: Holy Trinity
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1616
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
KIRKTON (Holy Trinity), a parish, in the union of Southwell, South-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 2¾ miles (N. E. by E.) from Ollerton; containing 265 inhabitants.
The parish comprises by computation 917 acres: the village is at the foot of a steep and richly wooded eminence, and has a pleasingly rural appearance.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king’s books at £7. 14. 9½.; net income, £259; patron, the Duke of Newcastle. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1821; the glebe altogether comprises 180 acres. The church has a lofty tower.
There is a place of worship for Baptists.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Southwell
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Retford
- Poor Law Union: Southwell
- Hundred: Bassetlaw
- Province: York