Description
Coddington, a village and a parish in Notts, near the G.N.R., half a mile E of Newark, with a post and telegraph office under Newark; money order office, Newark. Acreage, 1970; population, 553. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor. Coddington House and Goddington Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £304 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Southwell. The church was rebuilt in 1866. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a village library and reading-room for working men, national and Wesleyan schools, and Birche's Charity, left in 1738, producing about £90 per annum, which is applied mainly in supporting the schools.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
