Description
Beckingham, a large village and a parish in Notts, near the river Trent, 2 1/2 miles W by N of Gainsborough, under which the parish has a post office, and a station on the G.N.R. Acreage, 2634; population, 492. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £217 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good, and it was thoroughly restored in 1892. The vicarage house was erected in 1874 by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and small charities. Dr William Howell the historian was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
