HAYTON, a parish in East Retford. district, Notts; on the Chesterfield canal, 3 miles E of Sutton r. station, and 3 NE by N of East Retford. It includes the hamlet of Tyln; and its post-town is Retford. Acres, 2,700. Real property, £3,519. Pop., 258. Houses, 59. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to H. B. Simpson, Esq. There was formerly a moated castle. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £152.* Patron, the Bishop of Chester. The church is Norman, with a lofty tower; and was re-stored in 1858. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £5.

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