HOVERINGHAM, a village and a parish in Southwell district, Notts. The village stands near the river Trent, 1½ mile E of Lowdham r. station, and 5 S of Southwell; and has a post office under Southwell, and a spa in a field at the back of the church. The parish comprises 1, 050 acres. Real property, £2, 288. Pop., 387. Houses, 83. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to Sir John Sutton, Bart. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £62. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is old, in fair condition; and has a Norman porch, a tower, and some old table tombs. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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