BABWORTH, a parish in the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, lj mile (W.) from East Retford, containing 416 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £14. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the Hon. T. B. Simpson. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The Chesterfield canal passes along the northern side of the parish, the income arising from a share in which was bequeathed, in 1781, by Lindley Simpson, Esq., to support a -school for the instruction of poor children.