PAPPLEWICK, a parish in the northern division of
the wapentake of BROXTOW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
7 miles (N. by W.) from Nottingham, containing, with
Newstead Priory, 767 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and
diocese of York, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and
£1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of
Fontayne Wilson, Esq. The church, dedicated to St.
James, was rebuilt in 1797, in the later style of English
architecture. Here are extensive cotton-mills, affording
employment to a great number of persons. In the side
of a hill in the neighbourhood is a curious ancient
excavation, with passages and doorways, traditionally
called Robin Hood's Stable.