LAXTON, or LEXINGTON, a parish in the Southclay
division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county
of NOTTINGHAM, 2 miles (S. S. W.) from Tuxford, containing,
with Moorhouse, 615 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham,
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at
£11, and in the patronage of Earl Manvers. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael. Forty shillings per
annum, being the interest of £40, the bequest of a person
unknown, is applied towards the education of children.