Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SCOFTON

SCOFTON, a chapelry in Worksop parish, Notts; on the river Ryton and the Chesterfield canal, 2¾ miles E by N of Worksop r. station. Post-town, Worksop. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £ £150.* Patron, G. S. Foljambe, Esq. The church is modern.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Worksop CP/AP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Scofton

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