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ANNESLEY, a parish in Basford district, Notts; on the border of Sherwood forest, 2½ miles NW of Linby r. station, and 6½ SSW of Mansfield. It contains the hamlets of Annesley, Woodhouse, and Wansley; and its Post Town is Linby under Nottingham. Acres, inclusive of the extra-parochial tract of Felley, 3,360. Real pro perty, £2,748. Pop., 288. Houses, 57. Annesley Park was the birthplace of Mary Chaworth, the object of the early attachment of Lord Byron, celebrated in the poem of "the Dream;" and is now the seat of J. Chaworth Musters, Esq. The manor belonged, for some time after the Conquest, to the Annesleys, now of Bletchingdon; who built a castle in the park, and a priory in Felley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £64. Patron, J. Chaworth Musters, Esq. The church is old but good, and contains monuments of the Annesleys. There are two Wesleyan chapels, a free school, and charities £46.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Annesley AP/CP Basford RegD/PLU Nottinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Annesley |
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