HAYTON, a parish in that part of the liberty of SOUTHWELL-AND-SCROOBY which nearly separates the North-clay from the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (N. E. by N.) from East Retford, containing 244 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £4. 15. 5., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Chesterfield canal passes through the parish.