STURTON, a parish, with a village and a hamlet, in East Retford district, Notts; on the Manchester and Lincolnshire railway, 6 miles ENE of East Retford. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Retford. Acres, 4,610. Real property, £5,492. Pop., 583. Houses, 124. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, 324.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is Norman and early English. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £43.

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