CROPWELL (BISHOP), a parish in the southern
division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM,
8 miles (E. S. E.) from Nottingham, containing
392 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Collegiate Church of
Southwell, rated in the king's books at £5. 3. 4., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Prebendaries of Oxton
in the Collegiate Church of Southwell. The church
is dedicated to St. Giles. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. The old Fosse-road and the
Grantham canal pass through this parish.