FARNDON, a parish in Newark district, Notts; on the river Trent and the Fosse way, near the Newark and Nottingham railway, 2 miles SW by W of Newark. It has a post office under Newark. Acres, 1, 710. Real property, £5, 915. Pop., 692. Houses, 152. The property is subdivided. Many of the inhabitants are stocking makers. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Lincoln; and, till 1864, was united with Balderton. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is good; and there are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. Charities, £32.

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