WOLLERTON, (Nottinghamshire) near the r. Lin, 3 m. from Nottingham, bel. anciently to the Willoughbies, since created Ld.
Middleton, and is the noblest in the Co. having a park enclosed with a brick wall, which is much finer than that adjoining
to Nottingham-Castle, and much better planted with timber. There is a pretty house panelled and cieled with looking-glass,
and under it a water-house with grotesque work of shells. The hall, at the first entrance into the house, is so high, that
a man on horseback might exercise a pike in it. This seat was built in the last century by Sir Fr. Willoughby.