Description
Bleasby, a parish, with a village and a railway station, in Notts, on the river Trent and on the M.R., 4 miles SE of Southwell. It includes the hamlets of Gibsmere, Notown, and Goverton, and its post town is Southwell. Acreage, 1538 ; population of civil parish, 282; of the ecclesiastical, with Halloughton, 347. Bleasby Hall is the seat of the Kelhams. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Halloughton, in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient and very good. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
