WOODBOROUGH, a parish in the southern division
of the wapentake of THURGARTON, county of
NOTTINGHAM, 7 miles (N. E. by N.) from Nottingham,
containing 717 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Collegiate
Church of Southwell, rated in the king's books at £4,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the first and second Prebendaries of Oxton
in the same collegiate church. The church, dedicated
to, St. Swithin, has a fine Norman doorway,. and the
east window exhibits some remains of ancient stained
glass. The Doverbeck, a considerable stream turning
several mills, runs through the parish. The stocking
frame was invented here by William Lew, in 1528; about
one hundred and fifty of them are usually at work in
the village. The free school was built and endowed, in
1739, by Mr. Wood, and enlarged by the Rev. Richard
Oldanes, the master, in 1763; the income/about £90 a
year, arises from certain land at Blidworth, and other
premises at Stapleford, and the school is open to all
children of the parish.