Austerfield, West Riding

Description
Austerfield, a village and a township in the W. R. Yorkshire, adjacent to Notts, and to the Retford and Doncaster railway, 11 mile NNE of Bawtry railway station. Post town, Bawtry. Acreage, 2781; population, 341. A Roman camp occurs here on the line of North Wathng Street; and a great battle is supposed to have been fought adjacent between the Britons and the Romans under Ostorius. The living is a vicarage joined with Bawtry, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £370, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is Norman; there is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.