FISKERTON, a chapelry in the parish of ROLLESTON,
southern division of the wapentake of THURGARTON,
county of NOTTINGHAM, 3 miles (S. E.) from Southwell,
containing 342 inhabitants. The chapel is dedicated
to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. Ralph de Ayncourt having given
the manor to Thurgarton priory, of which he was the
founder, there were placed in the manor-house a few
Black canons, who had a chapel, dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin, and several benefactions given them.