STURTON, a parish in the North-clay division ,of
the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
6 miles (E. N. E.) from East Retford, containing 605 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the
king's books at £5. 7. 3., endowed with £600 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of York. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.
The Roman road from Lincoln to Doncaster
passes through the parish, and the river Trent forms its
southern boundary. A National school, erected in 1830,
is partly supported by a rental of £6. 14., the gift of
George Green, in 1710, for teaching eight poor children.
Several coins were lately discovered here, and among
them one of Louis XIII., and a leaden seal of Pope
Innocent III.