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Retford (West) in Nottingham County England History and GeographyRETFORD (WEST), a parish in the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, ¼ of a mile (W.) from East Retford, containing 571 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £9. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Mayor and Corporation of East Retford. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small edifice, with a tower and an elegant crocketed spire. The Chesterfield canal passes through the parish, which is separated from the borough and parish of East Retford by the river Idle. Richard Brownlow, in 1691, bequeathed £300 for the endowment of a free school, but the money has not been applied to that purpose. Stephen Johnson, in 1725, gave a house and land for the use of a schoolmaster, with a rent-charge of £10, which he receives for teaching poor children to read. An hospital, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was founded. in 1664, by Dr. John Darrell, and endowed with lands for the maintenance of a master and sixteen brethren: part of the original building remains, and, with some modern additions, is occupied as an almshouse by poor men. Dr. Darrell also founded a scholarship in Exeter College, Oxford, and endowed it with an estate in this parish, now producing £52 a year; the scholar to be chosen from the counties of Nottingham and Lincoln alternately, by the archdeacon of the former and the subdean of the latter. The old hall was formerly the residence of the family of Denman, from whom, by intermarriage, descended two queens of England, ie., Anne, consort of James II., and Anne her daughter, who succeeded William III. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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