Description
Elksley, a village and a parish in Notts, on the river Poulter, 4 1/2 miles SSW of Retford railway station, with a post office under Retford; money order and telegraph office, Retford. Acreage, 2661; population, 268. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Newcastle. The church is ancient and good, and has a tower; it was partly rebuilt in 1884.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
