WOLLATON, a parish in the southern division of
the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
3 miles (W.) from Nottingham, containing 571 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, with the
perpetual curacy of Cossal annexed, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the
king's books at £14.2. 6., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Lord Middleton. The church, dedicated to
St. Leonard, exhibits a mixture of the several styles
of English architecture. The Nottingham canal passes
through the middle of the parish, in various parts of
which coal mines have been wrought from time immemorial.
Wollaton Hall, the seat of Lord Middleton,
is a large and lofty edifice, in the Elizabethan
style, built by Sir Francis Willoughby, entirely of
freestone, which was brought from Ancaster, in the
county of Lincoln, in exchange for coal obtained upon
the estate.