Description
Whatton, a village, a township, and a parish in Notts. The township lies on the river Smite, a quarter of a mile SE of Aslackton station on the G.N.R., and 2 1/2 miles E of Bingham, and has a post office under Nottingham; money order and telegraph office, Bingham. Acreage, 1759; population, 281. The manor, with the Manor House, belongs to the Hall family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £138 with residence. The church is in the Early English and Late Decorated styles, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and a central tower with spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some charities. Archbishop Cranmer was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
