RANSKILL is a village and township on the Great North road, in the parish of Blyth and East Retford union, with a station on the Retford and Doncaster branch of the-Great Northern railway, 144 ¼ miles from London and 3 south-east-by-south from Bawtry. The church of St. Barnabas, erected in 1878, is a stone building, consisting of chancel, nave and a turret containing one bell: there are 200 sittings. Rev. Ralph Mowbray Howard M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, has been curate-in-charge since 1898. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built 1868. The Congregational. chapel is now used as a church room. Here is a reading room, built 1891. There are several owners of the manorial rights, under the Ecclesiastical. Commissioners. Viscount Galway is the principal landowner. The area is 1,311 acres of land and 6 of water; assessable value, £3,689; the population in 1901 was 416.