Description
Collingham, South, a township and a parish in Notts. The township stands on the Fosse Way, near Collingham railway station, 4 1/2 miles NNE of Newark, and occupies the site of the ancient Crocolana. The parish includes also the hamlets of Brough and Danethorpe, and its post town is Collingham under Newark. Acreage, 3028; population, 705. Ancient relics have been found at Potter's Hill barrow. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £331 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is old with some good Norman work; the tower was restored in 1886, and the rest of the church in 1890.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
