WALLINGWELLS, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (N. by W.) from Worksop, containing 7 inhabitants. A Benedictine nunnery, in honour of the Virgin Mary, was founded here, in the reign of Stephen, by Ralph de Cheroulcourt, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £88. 11. 6.: it is now the residence of Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bart. In excavating near the house, in 1829, several stone coffins were found, and amongst them that of Dame Margery Dourant, second abbess of the convent, who died in the reign of Richard I.: on opening it, the body appeared nearly perfect, but, on exposure, soon suffered decomposition; her shoes were entire, as was also a silver chalice; these relics were again deposited, with the ashes, in the same receptacle, and re-interred.