Description
Aslacton or Aslockton, a village and a township in Scarrington parish, Notts, on the river Smite, with a station on the G.N.R., 3 miles E of Bingham. It has a post office under Nottingham; the money order office is at Bingham. Area, 1273 acres; population, 358. A chapel here was a peculiar of the collegiate church of Southwell, but is now a ruin. Archbishop Cranmer was a native. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and the Cranmer Mission Rooms. The living is a joint vicarage with Scarrington.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
