RAMPTON, a parish in the South-clay division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, 6 miles (E.S.E.) from East Retford, containing 391 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Rampton in the Collegiate Church of Southwell, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 0. 3., endowed with £ 200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Thirteen children are educated free for £6. 5., and the occupation of land worth £1. 10., per annum, given by some persons unknown. Here is a curious ancient gateway, which formerly belonged to a mansion-house erected in the reign of Henry VIII., and taken.'down about a century ago.