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| | Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology | Piercy (1828) | HUNDRED OF BASSETLAW. |
 | | RETFORD being the principal market town in the Hundred of Bassetlaw, a short account thereof will not be unacceptable at the commencement of this history. |
 | | The Hundred of Bassetlaw (called in Nomina Villarum, about the year 1315, Bersetelowe, afterwards we find it written Bernedsetlawe, Bernedeslawe, and Bassetlawe,) is somewhat of an oval shape, and extends along the bank |
 | | The latitude of the Hundred of Bassetlaw extends from fifty-three degrees, nine minutes, to fifty—three degrees, thirty—two minutes north; it is about twenty— seven miles long, and seventeen broad ; its circumference is estimated at upwards of eighty miles, and its superficial content at 174000 acres. |
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