Ollerton, Nottinghamshire

Description
Ollerton, a small town, township, and ecclesiastical parish in Notts. The town stands on the river Maun, immediately below the influx of Rainworth Water, near the N border of Sherwood Forest. It has a station on the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast railway. It is environed by fine scenery, is a polling-place and a seat of manorial courts, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Newark, a good inn, a neat church with a tower, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a cemetery, and a police station. Acreage of township, 1759 of land and 14 of water; population, 726. Ollerton was separated from Edwenstone and made into an ecclesiastical parish in 1888. The manor belongs to Lord Savile, who is principal landowner. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, Earl Manvers.