Weston, Nottinghamshire
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  Weston |
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| Population | 393 (2011) |
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| OS grid reference | SK775679 |
| District | Newark and Sherwood |
| Shire county | Nottinghamshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | NEWARK |
| Postcode district | NG23 |
| Dialling code | 01636 |
| Police | Nottinghamshire |
| Fire | Nottinghamshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
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Coordinates: 53°12′N 0°50′W / 53.20°N 0.84°W
Weston is a village 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] 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.[3]
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 chapeland an endowed school."
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- ↑ "Area: Weston CP (Parish)"
- ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire. pp 289-290. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.