WOODBOROUGH, a parish, with a straggling village, in Basford district, Notts; 3 miles WNW of Lowdham r. station, and 7½ NE of Nottingham. It has a post-office under Nottingham. Acres, 1,940. Real property, £3,950. Pop., 893. Houses, 200. The property is divided chiefly among four. W. Hall is the seat of M. Parkyns, Esq. A Roman settlement was here. Frame-work-knitting and brick-making are carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £118. Patron, the Chapter of Southwell. The church is tolerable. There are three dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £110 a year, and some charities.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))