GREASLY, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 7 miles (N.W.) from Nottingham, containing 4241 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £8. 5., endowed with £10 per annum and £300 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant. Viscount Melbourne was patron in 1819. The church is a handsome edifice, with a lofty embattled tower. Lancelot Rolleston, in 1748, founded and endowed a free school, in which twenty-two boys are taught; the annual income is about £27, with a house and garden for the master. Five pounds a year, the bequest of the Rev. John Mansell, is paid to a schoolmistress for .teaching eight children to read. The Nottingham canal passes through the south-west part of the parish, on the line of which there are several coal wharfs, and in the neighbourhood is a railway. There are some remains of an ancient embattled mansion called Greysley castle, to the northward of which are slight fragments of the Carthusian priory of Beauvale, founded in the reign of Edward III. by Nicholas de Cantilupe, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, for a prior and twelve monks, which number was subseqxiently increased to nineteen, whose revenue at the dissolution was estimated at £227. 8. At the village of Kimberley, within the parish, are the ruins of an ancient chapel.