MUSKHAM (NORTH), a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of THURGARTON, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (N.) from Newark, containing, with the township of Bathley, 617 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage in medieties, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Southwell: the first.mediety is rated in the kings books at £5. 6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Prebendary of North Muskham in the Collegiate Church of Southwell; the second is rated at £8. 19. 7., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Duke of Portland. The church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is bounded on the east by the Trent, which is crossed by a ferry to Holme. A free grammar school was founded in 1727, by Mrs.Woolhouse, who endowed it with land producing upwards of £50 per annum. There are two almshouses, founded by a Mr. Kemp; also a bequest of £ 10 per annum, with clothing, for ten poor persons, by John Smith, who also left £1. 6. 8. each to six poor scholars in Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.