ARNOLD, a parish in the northern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3£ miles (N. by B.) from Nottingham, containing 3572 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £7. 17. 8., and in the patronage of the Duke of Devonshh-e. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, and situated to the north of the village, is a large edifice in the later style of English architecture, with a tower: on a tablet in the interior are recorded various charitable bequests, amounting to about £150 per annum. There are places of worship for General and Particular Baptists and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists, The village occupies a large plot of ground, the houses being, for the most part, detached: the inhabitants are principally employed in the manufacture of lace and hosiery for the Nottingham market. In the neighbourhood are a few mills for spinning cotton and worsted yarn. A fair for the sale of live stock is held on the first Wednesday after September IQth. A school for the instruction of poor children is endowed with £22. 18. per annum, the produce of benefactions by Daniel Chadwick and others.