WELBECK-ABBEY, (Nottinghamshire) 1 m. and half S. of Worksop, and not far from the source of the rs. Idle and Ryton, was given at the Diss. by Henry VIII. to Rich. Whalley, and his heirs, and sold in the R. of Eliz. to Edw. Osborn, of London, cloth-worker; but it reverting to the crown in that R. she granted it to Rob. Booth and Ranulph Cotterel, and has been since a noble mansion-house of the late D. of Newcastle, and of the present Earl of Oxford, to whose family it came by marriage of that D's. heiress. The chapel was buried under its own roof in 1674. The park is finely wooded, having some of the largest and oldest trees in the Co. and is well stored with deer. The acres of the woods of this abbey were computed in the close of the last century at 338.