Description
Calverton, a village and a parish in Notts. The village stands near an affluent of the river Trent, 6 miles from Linby station on the G.N.R. and M.R., and 6 1/2 NNE of Nottingham, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes Salterford manor. Acreage, 3424; population, 1199. Many of the inhabitants are stocking makers. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell ; gross value, £250. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is of the 13th century, but contains interesting Saxon remains. It has been restored. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. Lee, the inventor of the stocking frame, was a native and vicar.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
