Description
Bunny, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts, 3 miles SW of Plumtree railway station, and 6 1/2 S of Nottingham, which is the post town. Acreage of the township, 2137; population, 239 ; of the civil and ecclesiastical parish, with Bradmore, 483. Bunny Park was the seat of the erudite and eccentric Sir T. Parkyns, and passed to Lord Rancliffe. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Bradmore, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £327 with residence. The church is partly Decorated English, and has a crocketed spire. There is an endowed school and some charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
