Shelford, Nottinghamshire

Description
Shelford, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts. The village stands near the river Trent, 2 miles from Burton Joyce station on the M.R., and 3 1/2 WNW of Bingham, and has a post office under Nottingham; money order and telegraph office, Radcliffe-on-Trent. The township contains also Newton hamlet. Acreage, 3126 of land and 67 of water; population, 389. The parish contains also the township of Saxondale, and comprises 3877 acres; population, 474. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Earl of Carnarvon. An Austin priory was founded here, in the time of Henry IL, by Ralph de Hanselyn. and went at the Dissolution to the Stanhopes. The living is a vicarage, with Newton and Saxondale annexed, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £250 with residence. The church is in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and embattled tower, and there is a Primitive Methodist chapel.