Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire

Description
Edwinstowe, a village, a township, and an extensive parish in Notts. The village stands on the river Maun, 2 miles WSW of OUerton, and 7 NE of Mansfield station on the M.R., and has a post and money order office under Newark; telegraph office, Ollerton. The township includes the village. Acreage, 6052; population of the township, 944; of the ecclesiastical parish, with Carburton and Perle-thorpe, 1683. The parish contains the townships of Clipstone, Bndby, and Carburton, and includes the northern part of Sherwood Forest. Edwinstowe Hall and Cockglode are chief residences. Thoresby Hall, the seat of Earl Manvers, is also actually in Edwinstowe proper. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelries of Carburton and Perlethorpe, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £443 with residence. Patron, Earl Manvers. The church has an octagonal spire, and is good. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, four almshouses, a village library, and charities worth about £180.