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MATTERSEY, a village and a parish in East Retford district, Notts. The village stands on the river Idle, 2 miles E of Ranskill r. station, and 3½ SE of Bawtry; was once a market-town; and has a post office under Bawtry. The parish contains also the hamlet of Thorpe, or Mattersey-Thorpe, 1 mile NW of the village. Acres, 2,210. Real property, £3,828. Pop., 436. Houses, 107. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Maresays; was given, before 1192, to a Gilbertine priory, then founded on it; passed to the Nevilles, the Hickmans, and others; and belongs now to the Duke of Portland. Remains of the priory still stand, about a mile from the village. Blaco Hill, about a mile SE of the village, is 118 feet high. There are sand pits. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Valne, £260.* Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church has an embattled tower; and contains a curious carving, found in 1804, and supposed to have belonged to the priory. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a slightly endowed school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Mattersey AP/CP East Retford RegD/PLU Nottinghamshire AncC |
| Place: | Mattersey |
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