Woodborough, Nottinghamshire

Description
Woodborough, a parish, with a straggling village, in Notts, 3 miles WNW of Lowdham station on the M.R., and 7 1/2 NE of Nottingham. It has a post office under Nottingham; money order office, Epperstone; telegraph office, Lowdham. Acreage, 1945; population, 768. Woodborough Hall was purchased of the Parkyns by Mr C. H. Hill in 1895. A Roman settlement was here. Framework knitting and brickmaking are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is chiefly in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower, and was restored in 1893; it has a Norman doorway and font. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels, an endowed school, a cemetery formed in 1879, and some charities.