Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCARLE (South)

SCARLE (South), a township and a parish in Newark district, Notts. The township lies 1 mile W of Swinder-by r. station, and 7 N N E of Newark. Acres, 1, 540. Real property, £8, 818. Pop., 175. Houses, 43. The parish contains also the township of Besthorpe, with a post-office under Newark; and comprises 2,050 acres. Pop., 513. Houses, 108. The manor of Moreland, including all the parish and extending beyond it, is heldby the Duke of Newcastle under lease from the Crown. The living is a vicarage, with Besthorpe and Girton, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £300.* Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is ancient. There are a chapel of ease, three dissenting chapels, a freeschool, and charities £19.


(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: South Scarle CP/AP       Newark RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place names: SCARLE     |     SCARLE SOUTH     |     SOUTH SCARLE
Place: South Scarle

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