BOTHAMSALL, a parish in the Hatfield division
of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
4 miles (W. N. W.) from Tuxford, containing 310
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, and
in the patronage of the Duke of Newcastle. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary. The parish is bounded on the
north by the river Poulter, and intersected by the Meden,
which two rivers, uniting with the Maun, form the river
Idle, about two miles north of the parish. Henry-Walters,
in 1692, founded a free school atHoughton, In.this
parish, which is endowed with £ 25 per annum. The
inhabitants are entitled to the privilege of sending a
certain number of children to the school at West
Drayton. There is a tumulus, called Castle Hill, a
little westward from the village.