WALESBY, a parish in the Hatfield division of
the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM,
3 miles (N. E.) from Ollerton, containing 308 inhaT
bitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York,
rated in the king's books at £6. 1. 3., endowed with
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Hon.
and Rev. John Lumley Saville. The church, dedicated
to St. Edmund, is in the Norman style of architecture,
with a low tower surmounted by a pyramidical roon
The Rev. Richard Jackson, in 1760, bequeathed a
rent-charge of £2 for teaching poor children: nine
are educated for £5. 5. a year, being the rental of land
received in lieu of the annuity. Walesby is in the
honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within
the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury
every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under
40s.