WHATTON, a parish in the northern division of
the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM,
2 miles (E.) from Bingham, containing, with the
chapelry of Aslacton, 663 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham,
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books
at £5. 6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in
the patronage of G. S. Foljambe, Esq. The church, de.
dicated to St. John of Beverley, contains the effigy of
a Knight Templar in armour, and a monumental tablet
in memory of Thomas Cranmer, father of the celebrated
Archbishop Cranmer, who was born at Aslacton, in thisparish,
in 1489. There is a place of worship forWesleyan
Methodists. Whatton is in-the honour of Tut-,
bury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every third Tuesday,
for the recovery of debts tinder 40s.