EDINGLY, a parish within the liberty of SOUTHWELL-and-SCROOBY,
though locally in the wapentake
of Thurgarton, county of NOTTINGHAM, 2 miles
(W.N.W.) from Southwell, containing 344 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's
books at £4, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and in
the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Chapter
of the Collegiate Church of Southwell. The church is
dedicated to St. Giles. A school is endowed with a
house, garden, and a few acres of land, partly the gift
of Samuel Wright, in 1731, and partly allotted in 1767
by the commissioners for enclosing common lands, for
teaching poor children.