Wilson's Directory 1871

Babworth, Morton and Ranby

BABWORTH, a village and a parish in East Retford district, Notts. The village stands near the Chesterfield canal and the Great Northern railway, 1½ mile W of East Retford; and has a post office under Retford. The parish includes also the hamlets of Great and Little Morton and Morton-Grange, and part of the hamlet of Ranby. Acres, 6,165. Real property, £7,205. Pop., 701. Houses, 133. The property is divided among a few. Babworth Hall is the seat of the Simpson family, and stands in very fine grounds which were laid out by Repton. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £826. Patron, the Hon. B. J. Simpson. The church is a neat Gothic structure, with a small steeple; and was repaired in 1859. A charity school has £8.

John Marius WILSON's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales," 1870-72