[.] EAli'T~~~~T} 864 (POST OFFICE • field and other parts of Yorkshire: it is calculated that the incorporated by the name (as worded by the d nor) of "The produce of nearly thirty villages comes to this market. The Master and Governor and Brethren of the holy and un~ chartered fairs are held on the 23rd March and October divided Trinity in West , in the county of .Not­ 2nd, for borses, cattle, cbt>ese, and hops· there are also tingham." In 1680, owin!( to a falling off of rents and fairs held on the last Thul'!!day in July for fambs, Thursday insufficiency of income, the number of brethren on the after June 11th, and second Thursday in December, for foundation was reduced to ten; each receiving the £10 cattle, sheep and borses. yearly. About the year 1776, durin~ the mastership of Dr. The area of the parish is 288 acres; rateable value, £8,852; Pay ling, owing to an increase in the value of the estates and the population of the parish and municipal borough, inclu~ a corresponding economy in the general expenditure, the

ing Chapelgate1 in 1871, was 3,327, and of the parliamentary trust was enabled to increase the number as originally to 16; borough, 49,257. and also to increase their annual allowance. In the last Parish Clerk, Edwin Swannack. few years, by improved and judicious management of the estate, also by the sale of lands and the purchase of others, West Retford is a parish and village situate on the under the sanction of the Cl.tarity Commissioners, the yearly Great North road, in the Northern division of the county, revenue of the charity has been considerably increased. In Hatfield division of the Bassetlaw wapentake, East Ret­ conformity with an order made by the Board of Charity ford union, county court district and petty sessional Commissioners in 1863, it was directed that each of the division: it is separated from East Retford by the river brethren should receive £3 4s. per lunar month, and the Idle~ over which there is a substantial iron girder bridg-e, master governor £84: yearly. The hospital occupies a A Local Board was formed here in April~ 1850. The salubrious position near the south-west verge of the parish, church of St. Micbael was thoroughly restored and a north and was erected on the site of the previous building in 1833 : aisle added in 1864: it is situate on an acciivity, and has it is a rectangular building, and consists of separate dwell­ chancel with vestry, nave, aisles, north and south porches, ings for the 16 brethren, an audit room, matron's apart­ and a handsome square tower with buttresses; the upper ments, and a handsome chapel for the use of the inmates; in part of which is octagonal: it is adorned with pinnacles, which prayers are said daily: over the audit room, in bold and out of the intersection rises a lofty octangular spire : relief, are the arm:~~ of the founder. The audit room, there are three bells : ~he church is principally in the matron's apart~ents, and a clock tower were erected in Decorated style, five bays divide the nave from the aisles: 1872. The present master govemor is the Right Rev. Dr. the chancel arch is of fine proportions, springing from clus­ Mackenzie, Bishop Suffragan of Notts. Mr. J. H. Worth, tered shafts, with ·carved corbels: the pulpit is of oak, as of' Westfield, is the bailiff or steward of the estates; and are the chancel benches, reading desk and lectern; -each the Rev. Watkin Homfray, rector of West Retford, is the being carved in the Decorated style: there are several chaplain. Dr. Darrel also gave to trustees, by the same stained windows, the eastem was erected by the public to will, all the lands he himself purchased, the income of the memory of the Rev. Charles D. Butterfielrt, a former which should be applied in the maiutenance of some rector : the church is seated with open benches to accom­ inf!'enious scholar, the father's income, at that time, not modate 400 people: the register dates from the year 1770. exceeding £30 yearly, from land or estate; the said scholar The living is a di.schar~red rectory, gross yearly value .£550, to be chosen out of Lincolnshire and al­ with residence, in the gift of the trustees of John Hood, esq., ternately, and to be educated in Exeter College, Oxford: and held by the Rev. Watkin Homfray, M.A •• of Exeter this portion of the estate has con!liderably increased in College, Oxford. The Holy Trinity Hospital was founded value during the last few years. The present allowance to by John Darrel, M.D., of West Retford, who, by will dated the scholar is .£60 yearly, tenable for four years. The November llth, 1664:, devised all property inherited by him church and poor's land is 27 acre~, rent of which is divided to trustees, for the purpose of founding a hospital or alms­ equally between the poor and the church. house to have continuance for ever, for the sustenance of Granville Harcourt Vernon, esq., is lord of the manor. 16 poor bachelors or widowers, of good character; who The principal landowners are MN. Simpson, Benja.min are elected out of a radius of ten miles from the parish Huntsman, esq., the Trinity Hospital, and the Rev. church of We~~t Retford: and by his will, appointed the Watkin Homfray, M.A. The area is 930 acres; rateable sub.dean of Lincoln Cathedral, and his successors, master valne, .£6,246; and the population in 1871 was 691. and governor thereof; and that the said hospital should be Parish Clerk~ William Burrows. Official Establishments, Local Institutions, &c. POST & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Charles Thorold, esq. Welham ball • Savings Bank & Government Insurance & Annuity Office. The Rev. Henry Augustus Marsh, Tuxford vicarage Postmi8tres.,-Mrs. Susannah Spencer, Chapel gate. John Champion, esq. Ranby house, Babworth There are two deliveries by letter carriers daily, commencing Henry Beevor, esq. Blyth, Spittal at 7 a. m. & 1.15 p.m. Arrival of mails :-From Williarn Overend, esq. Q.c. West Retford house & York, 6.35 a.m.; delivered at 7 a.m.: from York, Benjamin Huntsman,esq. West Retford hall Sheffield, Derby, Crewe, Nottingham, Normanton, & George William Mason, esq. Morton hall Stalybridge, Peterboro', Leeds, York, Millland T. P .0. & Right Hon. Viscount Galway, M.P. Serlby, Bawtry from London & the South of England at 12.45. p.m.; Robert Laycock, esq. Wiseton hall delivered at 1.15 p.m Henry Eyre, esq. Rampton manor, Lincoln Mails are dispatched t.o Leeds at 12 noon, containing letters F. J. S. Foljambe, esq. M.P. Osberton hall, for some parts of Yorkshire, Cumberland, Northumber­ Clerks, Burnaby & Denman, Church gate land, Westmorland & Ireland ; box closes at ll.oo a.m. To London & foreign parts, at 2.10 p.m.; box closing at List of parishes & townships comprised in the petty 1.56 p.m. To London & Peterboro' at 6.10 p.m.; box sessional district :-Askham, Awklev, Babworth, Barnbl closing at 6.0 p.m. General dispatch to all parts, 7.45 Moor Beckingham, Bevercotes, Blyth, Bole, Botbamsal , p.m.; box closing at 7.2 p.m., or with extra stamp till Boughton, Burton West, Clarborough, Claywortb, Cotham, 7.30 p.m • Darlton, Drayton East, Drayten West, Dunham, Eaton, PILLAR & WALL LETTER BoxEs, South Retford,cleored Egmanton, Elksley, Everton, Finningley, Fenton, Gringley­ 7.22 p.m.; West Retford, 6.12 p.m.; Railway station, on-the-Hill, Gamston, Grove, Hubblesthorpe, Hayton, 6.42 p.m.; & West Field, at 6.25 p.m. on week days Headon-cum-Upton, Houghton, Kirton, Laneham, Leverton only North, Leverton South, Laxton, Littleborough, Lound, There is one delivery on sunday, commencing at 7.0 a.m. Markham East, Markham West, Mattersey, Mission, Mis­ The office is open for ordinary business from 9 till6 daily. terton, Moorhouse, Ompton, Ordsall, Perlethorpe, Ragnall, Telegraph office open fl'Om 7 a.m. till 8 p.m.; sundays, Rampton, Ranskill, Retford West, Rufford, Saundley, from 8 till10 a.m Scuftworth, Scrooby, Stockworth West, Stoke-ham, Sturton, Sutton, Torworth, , Tuxford, Upton, W>~lesby, MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Walkeringham, Wheatley North, Wheatley South, Wiseton. "Francis John Savile Poljambe, esq. Osberton, Worksop; 31 Great Cumberland place to; & Brooks's club, London s.u CORPORATION. William Beckett Denison, esq. 43 Lowndes square, London LORD HIGH STEWARD-His Grace the Duke of Neweastle & Mearwood park, Leeds s.w ; RECORDER-John Hilyard, esq. Q.c COUNTY MAGISTRATES. MA YOR-George Cutts, esq • ,(PORMING THE SESSIONAL BENCH, EAST RETPORD.) ALDERMEN • ..t'be Rev. William Bridgm.an Simpson (chairman), Bab~ Thomas Cottam John J enkinson worth rectory William Wilkinson I Edmund Beeley