Weston, Nottinghamshire

Shire countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townNEWARKPostcode districtNG23Dialling code01636PoliceNottinghamshireFireNottinghamshireAmbulanceEast Midlands UK ParliamentWebsitewww.westonparishnotts.org.uk 53°12′N 0°50′W / 53.20°N 0.84°W / 53.20; -0.84

Weston is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 10 miles south of Retford. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 312,^[1] increasing to 393 (and including Grassthorpe) at the 2011 census,^[2] Weston alone reported 333 residents at the 2021 census.^[3] The parish church of All Saints is 13th century. At the south-east end of the village are three 16th century tenements built with cruck trusses.^[4]

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Weston like this: "WESTON, a parish, with a village, in Southwell district, Notts; on the Great Northern railway, 3 miles NNW of Carlton-on-Trent. Post town, Newark. Acres, 1,690. Real property, £2,745. Pop., 380. Houses, 85. The manor belongs to Earl Manvers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £500. Patron, Earl Manvers. The church was recently repaired, and has a tower and spire. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school."

See also

• Listed buildings in Weston, Nottinghamshire

References