West Stockwith, Nottinghamshire

Description
Stockwith, West, a township, with a village, in Misterton parish, Notts, on the river Trent, at the junction of the Chesterfield Canal, opposite East Stockwith in Lincolnshire, 1 mile from Misterton station on a branch of the G.N.R., and 4 miles NNW of Gainsborough. It has a fair on 4 Sept for horses and cattle, a ferry, and a post and money order office under Gainsborough; telegraph office, Misterton. Acreage, 688; population, 723. The living is a donative in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £160 with residence. The chapel of St Mary was erected in 1722 and restored and reseated in 1887; it is in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, and bell-turret. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, a police station, and some almshouses.