ELSTON, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of NEWARK, county of NOTTINGHAM, 5 miles (S.W. by S.) from Newark, containing 446 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £9. 8. 9. W. B. Darwin, Esq. was patron in 1819. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains several monuments to the Darwin family. A commo- dious school-house was erected in 1812, at the expense of Robert Waring Darwin, Esq., which is endowed with land allotted in 1801 by the commissioners for enclosing the open fields of Elston, in lieu of that bequeathed in 1652 by the Rev. Robert Pendleton, and other land purchased with £100, the legacy of Elizabeth Darwin, in 1784: there are also a dwelling-house, garden, and orchard, for the master, who gratuitously teaches nine poor children. An almshouse, for four poor widows, was built in 1744, in pursuance of the will of Ann Darwin, in 1792.