MISTERTON, a parish in the North-clay division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 4 toiles (N. W.) from Gainsborough, containing, with the chapelry of West Stockwith, 1429 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the lord of the manor of Gringley on the Hill, rated in the king's books at £10. 5., endowed with £10 per annum, and £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1100 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There are places of worship for Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists, and a Roman Catholic chapel. The Chesterfield and Trent canal, also Bycar Dyke, from the stop of the river Idle, passes through the parish.