Description
Cromwell, a parish in Notts, on the river Trent and the G.N.R., 2 miles S of Carlton railway station, and 5 N of Newark. It has a post and money order office under Newark; telegraph office, Carlton-on-Trent railway station. Acreage, 1423; population, 142. The manor formerly belonged to the Earls of Clare, but the Duke of Newcastle is now lord of the manor and principal landowner. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Newcastle. The church is old, and the interior was thoroughly restored in 1873 at the expense of the rector and ratepayers.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
