GAMSTON, a parish in the South-clay division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, f miles (S.) from East Retford, containing 385 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £ 11.16.5 and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a tower with eight pinnacles in the later English style.