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Lenton in Nottingham County England History and GeographyLENTON, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 1 mile (W.S.W.) from Nottingham, containing 1240 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £9. 2. 5½., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The village of Lenton has recently increased in importance, several new streets, and many elegant mansions having been erected, and manufactories for lace and extensive bleaching-works established. The Nottingham canal passes through the parish. A fair for cattle, sheep, and hogs, is held on St. Martin's day, and another on the Wednesday in Whitsum-week. The Peverel court, for the recovery of debts not exceeding £50, the jurisdiction of which extends over parts of the counties of Derby, Nottingham, and Stafford, is held here every Tuesday: the charter for holding this court was granted by William the Conqueror to his son, William Peverel, and confirmed by others subsequently granted by Charles II. and Anne: the officers constituting the court are, a steward, deputy steward, and judge, prothonotary, and capital bailiff. Here is a prison for debtors, of which the bailiff is gaoler. There are some remains of a Cluniac priory, founded, in the reign of Henry I., by William Peverel, in honour of the Holy Trinity; it was subject to the great foreign abbey of Cluny, but, on the suppression of other Alien priories, the monks here procured it to be made denizen, and thus it survived till the general dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at £417. 19. 3. Here was also a house of Carmelite friars, and, in the church-yard, an hospital dedicated to St. Anthony. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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