Babworth, Nottinghamshire

Description
Babworth, a township and a parish in Notts. The Chesterfield Canal and the G.N. and M.S. & L. railways pass through the township, which is about 1 mile from East Retford. It has a post office under Retford, which is the nearest railway station. The parish includes also the hamlets of Great and Little Morton and Morion-Grange, and part of the hamlet, of Ranby. Acreage, 6344; population of the civil parish, 753; of the ecclesiastical, 736. Babworth Hall is the seat of the Denison family, and stands in very fine grounds, which were laid out by Repton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £725 with residence. The church is a neat Gothic structure, with a small steeple, and was thoroughly restored in 1877. There is a school, with an endowment of £9 per annum