CROPHILL, (Nottinghamshire) or, as 'tis called in the Maps, CROPWELL-BISHOP; and CROPWELL-BUTLER, lie contiguous bet.
Bingham and Stanton, and have their lands intermixed in one field; so that they were both probably only one p. but made
distinct on account of the two Lps. in it, one of which bel. formerly to the Abp. of York, and was called Crophill-
Bishops, and the other was called Crophill-Butler, from the Butlers of Warrington in Lancashire, who were Lds. of this
manor from the R. of Hen. III. to Hen. VIII. The Grange was lately in the possession of the Ld. Chaworth; but the manor
being vested in Tho. Hutchinson, after some contest with Ld. C.J. Saunders, continued in his family some successions, till
Sir Tho. Hutchinson sold the farms to divers freeholders, and the demesne to the E. of Kingston; from whom it passed to
his descendants the Ds. of Kingston. The inh. resort to Titheby, as their p. Ch. There's a hill bet. the 2 Cropwells,
call'd Heu-Hill.