SCREVETON, a parish in the northern division of
the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM,
8j miles (S. "W. by S.) from Newark, containing 292
inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated
in the king's books at £6. 19. 1., and in the patronage
of Col. Hildyard. The church, dedicated to St.
Winifred, contains an altar-tomb and effigy to the
memory of Gen. Whalley, the supposed executioner of
Charles I., who commanded under Cromwell; figures
of his three wives and twenty-two children are represented
on the same monument: he died in 1683. A
small river, called the Car Dyke, runs through the
parish, which is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of
Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of
pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday, for the recovery
of debts under 40s. Dr. Thorotou, the antiquary
and topographer, was born in an ancient mansion here
belonging to his family.