DRAYTON (WEST), a chapelry in the parish of
EAST-MARKHAM, South-clay division of the wapentake
of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (N.W,
by N.) from Tuxford, containing 117 inhabitants. Henry
Walter, in 1688, directed a house to be built, and bequeathed
an annual rent-charge of £25 towards the maintenance
of a schoolmaster, for teaching all the poor boys
of this place, of Bothamsall, Haughton, Elksley, Gamston,
Milton, and Bevercotes.