Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EVERTON

EVERTON, a township and a parish in East Retford district, Notts. The township lies near the Chesterfield canal and the river Idle, 2 miles E of Scrooby r. station, and 3 SE of Bawtry; and it includes part of Drakeholes hamlet, and has a post office under Bawtry. Pop., 605. Houses, 149. The parish includes also the township of Scaftworth, and the hamlet of Harwell. Acres, 4, 679. Real property, £8, 360. Pop., 849. Houses, 208. The property is much subdivided. Roman relics have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £209.* Patron, the Rev. W. Metcalfe. The church is tolerable; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £8.


(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: Everton AP/CP       East Retford RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Everton

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