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Mansfield-Woodhouse in Nottingham County England History and GeographyMANSFIELD-WOODHOUSE, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 1¾ mile (N.) from Mansfield, containing 1598 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the court of the Lord of the Manor of Mansfield, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Duke of Portland. The church, dedicated to St. Edmund, is a large structure, with a spire-steeple one hundred and eight feet high, which was rebuilt in 1304, together with one of the aisles, after having been injured by a fire, which also destroyed part of the village. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. It anciently formed part of the adjoining parish of Mansfield, but it is not known at what period the separation took place. The village is large, and contains several very respectable houses. The free school was founded by Faith Clarkson, in 1725, and endowed with certain lands for a master and a mistress. Charles Thompson also, in 1784, bequeathed £1300, and Richard Radford, by deed dated May 10th, 1827, gave £800, the interest of both to be applied in educating children. There are lime-kilns and quarries of excellent freestone in the parish. Several hundred acres of land, formerly barren, have lately been converted into rich arable land, by means of irrigation, the Duke of Portland having dug a canal through this and the adjoining parish of Clipstone, communicating with the river Man, the waters of which are used for that purpose. In this parish are thirteen hundred acres of land, which, with some in the parish of Mansfield, is the only unenclosed part of the ancient Forest of Sherwood. In 1786, Major Rooke, distinguished for his fondness for antiquarian research, discovered two Roman vill' in the parish, on of which he called Villa Urbana, and the other Villa Rustica: the former contained nine rooms and a hypocaust, part of a very elegant mosaic pavement having been found in the centre room; and the latter comprised thirteen rooms, two hypocausts, and a cold bath: the walls of the rooms were plastered and painted, and the floors stuccoed. About one hundred yards to the south-east were two Roman sepulchres, in one of which was an urn containing ashes, with fragments of bones lying near it: coins and various other Roman relics were also found. Major Rooke enclosed the vill' with a stone wall, erected a square building over the room containing the mosaic pavement, and planted a variety of shrubs around them; but the whole, since his death, has suffered from neglect. Dr. Mason, Bishop of Sodor and Man, was born in this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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