CALVERTON, a parish in the southern division of
the wapentake of THURGARTON; county of NOTTINGHAM,
7 miles (N.N.E.) from Nottingham, containing 1064
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Chapter of the Collegiate
Church of Southwell, rated in the king's books at £4,
endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the alternate
patronage of the Prebendaries of Oxtpn in the Collegiate
Church of Southwell. The church is dedicated to St.
Wilfrid. There-is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
This parish is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy
of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of
pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery
of debts under 40s. A school is endowed with
£6 per annum, and a house and garden.