Description
Bolea parish in the county of Nottingham, on the river Trent, and 2 miles SW of Gainsborough, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Sturton-le-Street, which is the station on the M.S. & L.R. Acreage, 1218; population of the civil parish, 177; of the ecclesiastical, including Saundby, 303. Lord Middleton is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage held with the rectory of Saundby, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £336 with residence. Patrons, the Bishops of Manchester and Lincoln alternately. The church is old. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
