Description
Ranskill, a village and a township in Blyth parish, Notts. The village stands near the G.N.R., 3 1/2 miles S of Bawtry, and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post office under Bawtry; money order office, Blyth. The township comprises 1317 acres; population, 414. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Viscount Gal-way is the chief landowner. The church was erected in 1878 and enlarged in 1893; it consists of chancel, nave, and bell-turret. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a church room, formerly the Congregational chapel, and a public reading-room.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
