BOLE, a parish in the district of Gainsborough, and county of Nottingham; on the river Trent and on the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 2½ miles SW of Gainsborough. Post Town, Gainsborough. Acres, 1,250. Real property, £2,101. Pop., 238. Houses, 44. The property is all in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £130. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The church is old. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £6.

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