Description
Shelton, a parish, with a village, in Notts, 2 miles W from Gotham station on the G.N.R., and 7 S by W of Newark. Post town, Newark; money order office, Flintham; telegraph office, Staunton-in-the-Vale. Acreage, 853; population, 89. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £203 with residence. The church is small, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisle, and bell turret, and was restored in 1878.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
