Walesby Nottinghamshire Family History Guide

Walesby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.

Other places in the parish include: Willoughby.

Alternative names:

Parish church: St. Edmund

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1580
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

WALESBY (St. Edmund), a parish, in the union of Southwell, Hatfield division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 3 miles (N. E.) from Ollerton; containing 416 inhabitants. It comprises 1429a. 1r. 29p. The soil is partly clay and bog, but chiefly a fertile sand; the surface is generally flat, and watered by a small brook. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 1. 3.; net income, £158; patron, the Earl of Scarborough. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1821; the glebe comprises 152 acres. The church is in the Norman style, with a low tower surmounted by a pyramidical roof.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848