Weston is a village in
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...
, England. It is located 10 miles south of
Retford
Retford (), also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105. It lies on the River Idle and the Chesterf ...
. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 312, increasing to 393 (and including Grassthorpe) at the 2011 Census.
The
parish church of All Saints is 13th century. At the south-east end of the village are three 16th century tenements built with cruck trusses.
[Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. ''The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire''. pp 289–290. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.]
In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Weston like this:
"WESTON, a parish, with a village, in Southwell district, Notts; on the Great Northern railway, 3 miles NNW of Carlton-on-Trent. Post town, Newark. Acres, 1,690. Real property, £2,745. Pop., 380. Houses, 85. The manor belongs to Earl Manvers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £500. Patron, Earl Manvers. The church was recently repaired, and has a tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school."
References
Villages in Nottinghamshire
Newark and Sherwood
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