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MARKET TOWNS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (from SDUK Penny Cyclopedia)

Tuxford in 1839

Tuxford is in the South Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, l37½ miles from London by Newark, and about 30 from Nottingham. The parish has an area of 3000 acres ; the population, in 1831, was 1113, about one third agricultural. The town has a modern appearance, after having been rebuilt after a great fire, AD. 1702. The principal trade is derived from its situation on the great north road, or from the cultivation of hops, which are grown to a considerable extent in the neighbourhood. The church exhibits a mixture of various styles of architecture. There is a Methodist meeting-house. The market is on Monday, and there are two yearly fairs, one for cattle and other livestock, the other for hops. The living is a vicarage of the clear yearly value of £260, with a glebe-house. There were, in 1833, an infant-school, with 84 children ; an endowed free-school, with 40 boys; and four other day schools, with 70 children ; a national day and Sunday school, with 53 children in the week and 100 on Sundays ; and two Sunday-schools, with 105 children.