MARNHAM, a parish in the northern division of
the wapentake of THURGARTON, county of NOTTINGHAM,
4 miles (E. by S.) from Tuxford, containing, with
the township of Grassthorpe, 351 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £8. 19. 2., and in the patronage of Earl
Brownlow. The church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid. A
school was lately erected by Lord Brownlow for the instruction
of ten children, £10. 10. being allowed to the
master out of the rents of a charitable bequest from
Henry Nicholson, in 1677. A fair for horses, cattle,
swine, &c., is held on September 12th, The river Trent
is here crossed by a ferry.