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Hablesthorpe

Hablesthorpe Parish includes the two hamlets of Hablesthorpe or Applesthorpe and Coates, and contains 103 inhabitants and 783a 2r 10p of land, extending from North Leverton to the trent.

Hablesthorpe is situated 5½ miles east of Retford, and is so closely connected with North Leverton, that a stranger would suppose it to be part of that village and parish. It anciently had a chapel, of which no traces now remain, except a desecrated burial ground, which has not been used for the past 90 years. It has a non-resident vicar and a prebendary in York Cathedral. The vicarage was certified at £9 11s 8d, now at £81, and is in the incumbency of the Rev. john Mickle, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Lincoln. At the enclosure in 1795 an allotment of 293a 0r 23p was awarded to the appropriator in lieu of the great tithes, and 31a 3r 31p (including the old glebe) to the vicar in lieu of the small tithes. A Wesleyan chapel was erected in the village in 1806.

Elizabeth Palmer in 1726 charged her estates at Coates with the payment of two annuities, viz £20 to the poor widows and orphans of Coates, and £30 to be divided betwixt the vicars of North Leverton and Hablesthorpe, as the parishioners attended the church at the former place, even in her time. In 1740, Elizabeth Bryan left £200, and directed 40s of the interest to be given to the poor of Hablesthorpe, and the residue to be divided amongst the poor relations of her brother Michael Bland, on the feast of St Michael. She also left a yearly rent charge of 40s out of a cottage, and 8a 2r of land in Coates (now belonging to George Motley Esq. of Worksop) to be distributed in weekly doles of bread every Sunday at North Leverton church, amongst the poor of Hablesthorpe. the vicars of North and South Leverton and Sturton are the trustees.

Coates, a small hamlet 2 miles east of Hablesthorpe, is all in this parish, except one cottage, which is claimed by North Leverton, and in which that parish places a poor widow, who partakes of Palmer's charity.

White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853

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