SCARLE (SOUTH), a parish in the northern division
of the wapentake of NEWARK, county of NOTTINGHAM,
7 miles (N. E. by N.) from Newark, containing,
with the chapelry of Besthorpe, 422 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's
books at £5.2.5., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Prebendary of South Scarle in the Cathedral
Church of Lincoln. The church is dedicated to St. Helen.