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Eakring

Eakring is an extensive village and parish, situated on a gentle declivity 4 miles south by east of Ollerton, comprising 710 inhabitants and 2397 acres of land. Earl Manvers and the Earl of Scarborough are princupal owners, and there are also a few small freeholders in the parish. The two noble Earls are lords of the manor, and they each hold a court baron at Michaelmas.

The church, which stands on an eminence, is an ancient structure, with a tower and three bells. The roof of this venerable edifice was burnt down in 1837, but is now covered with slates at the expense of the parishioners, the same year. The living is a rectory, valed in the King's books at £9 16s 0½d, now at £480. The Rev. Theophilus Sampson, the present incumbent, was presented to the living in 1830 by the Earl of Scarborough, and resides in an old rectory house near the east end of the church. The tithes were commuted in 1840 for £600, including a rent charge of £10 on the glebe, 38a 2r 27p. The living is in the alternate patronage of Earl Manvers and the Earl of Scarborough. In the chancel lie the remains of the Rev. W. Mompesson, prebendary of the Collegiate Church of St Mary's at Southwell, and Rector of this parish, having been presented to this living by the late Sir George Saville, after the fatal ravages of the plague, which swept off, in 1665, so many of the inhabitants of the rural village of Eyam, in Derbyshire, of which parish he was then rector. Though his tomb may moulder in the dust and be forgotten, yet his memorial of humanity and devotedness to the wants of his afflicted parishioners may never perish.

A great part of this parish was of the King's soc of Mansfield. and a small portion of it was "Soc to Laxton of Goisford de Alsella's fee". The feast, or Eakring Ball Play, is held on Easter Tuesday, and has no doubt derived its name from its being anciently a great meeting for a trial of skill in the game of football, which was formerly such a favourite amusement in this county. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel in the village, the former built in 1835, and the latter in 1837. Here is a small school supported by subscription. In 1770, Mr Foster left £17 to the poor, for which the overseers distribute 17s yearly out of the poor rates.

White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853

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