THE

HISTORY OF RETFORD,

IN THE

County of Nottingham.

COMPRISING

ITS ANCIENT, PROGRESSIVE, AND MODERN

STATE,

WITH

AN HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

VILLAGES

OF WEST RETFORD, BABWORTH, ORDSALL,

GROVE, AND CLARBOROUGH.

BY JOHN S. PIERCY.

yore

"Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of
Who danced our infancy upon their knee,
And told our marvelling boyhood legend's store,
Of their strange 'ventures happ'd by land or sea,
How are they blotted from the things that be!
How few, all weak and wither'd in their force,

Wait on the verge of dark eternity,

Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse,

To sweep them from our sight! Time rolls his ceaseless course."

Sir Walter Scott.

RETFORD:

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