LOVERSALL, a parish, with a village, in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3½ miles SSW of Doncaster r. station. Post town, Doncaster. Acres, 2,122. Real property, £2,660. Pop., 175. Houses, 32. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Mrs.E. Cooke. St. Catherine's, a fine mansion in the later English style, is the seat of the Rev. R. J. Banks; and Loversall Hall is the residence of H. Huntsman, Esq. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £60. Patron, the Vicar of Doncaster. The church is early and decorated English, with a plain tower; was partly rebuilt in 1855; and contains an effigies of a knight, and several modern monuments.

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