MISSON, a parish in the Hatfield division of the
wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 2
miles (E. N. E.) from Bawtry, containing 720 inhabitants/
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the-king's
books at £6. 4. 4., and in the patronage of the Crown,
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
A free school, erected, here in 1693, by Thomas Mowbray
and John Pinder, is endowed with land, &c., now
producing an annual income of about £ 65, for teaching
poor children.