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East Retford lay just off the Great North Road, about 30 miles north of Nottingham and 18 miles south of Doncaster, in Yorkshire. D.

‘This county hath for its eastern bounds, Lincolnshire, from which for a good distance it is severed by the River Trent; for its southern, Leicestershire; for its western, the counties of Derby and York; and for its northern also Yorkshire’. R. Blome, Britannia (1673), 183. The county comprised two main regions – the fertile arable lands of the southern and eastern parts, watered by the Trent and its tributaries; and the western part, dominated by Sherwood Forest with its largely pastoral economy. Blome, Britannia, 183; Wood, Notts.