Caunton, Nottinghamshire

Description
Caunton, a parish in Notts, on an affluent of the river Trent, 4 miles SW of Carlton railway station, and 6 NW by N of Newark. It includes the hamlets of Knapthorpe and Beesthorpe, and has a post and money order office under Newark; telegraph office, Newark. Acreage, 3105; population, 396. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; value, £190. Patron the Bishop of Ripon. The church is old, and has a tower with three bells, nave, north and south aisles, chancel, and south porch. The oldest portion, namely, the three easternmost bays of the nave, dates from about 1180. A handsome clock with two dial plates was added by public subscription to commemorate the Queen's jubilee in 1887. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.