Elston, Nottinghamshire

Description
Elston, a parish in Notts. The parish lies near Car Dyke, about 2 miles from the river Trent, 3 1/4 SE of Fiskerton railway station, and 5 SW of Newark. It has a post office under Newark; money order office, Flintham; telegraph office, Newark. Acreage, 1610; population, 325. Elston Hall was the birthplace of Dr Darwin. Middleton House is a mansion in the Tudor Gothic style, and has a chapel with baptistery and organ annexed. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £135 with residence The church contains monuments of the Darwins, and was renovated in 1859. There is a chapel for Wesleyans, alms-houses founded by Mrs Ann Darwin for four poor widows, and a charity called the Poor's Close, consisting of 30 gardens, the rents of which are distributed among the widows and infirm.