COLLINGHAM (SOUTH), a parish in the northern
division, of the wapentake of NEWARK, county of NOTTINGHAM,
5 miles (N. N. E.) from Newark, containing
686 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in
the king's books at £14.1.10., and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Peterborough. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. Here is a school with
a very trifling endowment. This parish is bounded on
the west by the navigable river Trent. There is a
lofty tumulus, called Potter's hill, where many Roman
relics have been found. South of this, on the Fosseroad,
on the Lincolnshire boundary, is the site of the
Crococolana of Antoninus, now occupied by the village
of Brough, where coins, termed Brugh pennies, have
been ploughed up, and ancient foundations often discovered:
human bones, with remains of coffins, have
also been turned up in a place called the Chapel Close,
which was the burying-ground attached to a chapel
that formerly stood there, and belonged to the rectory
of Hawton.