Description
Walesby, a parish, with a village, in Notts, 4 miles W of Tuxford station on the G.N.R. It has a post office under Newark; money order and telegraph office, Ollerton. Acreage, 1474; population of the civil parish, 274; of the ecclesiastical, 318. The manor belongs to Lord Savile. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; gross value, £149 with residence. Patron, Lord Savile. The church is ancient, consists of chancel, nave, S aisle, and an embattled western tower, and was restored during 1884-87. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a village library.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
