SCROOBY, a parish within the liberty of SOUTHWELL-and-SCROOBY,
though locally in the wapentake
of Bassetlaw, county of NOTTINGHAM, 1 mile (S.) from
Bawtry, containing 269 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, with that of Sutton, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York. The
church is dedicated to St. Wilfred. In this parish are
some remains of an ancient palace of the Archbishops
of York, converted into a farm-house; in the garden
is a mulberry-tree, said to have been planted by Cardinal
Wolsey.