PISKERTON-cum-MORTON, anciently “Fiscartime,” formerly a township in Rolleston parish, was in 1884 amalgamated with Morton for poor law purposes under the Divided Parishes Act; it is pleasantly seated on the western bank of the river Trent, with a station on the Midland railway from Nottingham to Lincoln, three-quarters of a mile from the village, 6 miles south-west from Newark, 3 south-east from Southwell and 125 from London, in the Newark division of the county, Southwell division of the wapentake of Thurgarton, union and petty sessional division of Southwell and Newark county court district. Here is a ferry over the Trent to the parish of East Stoke. The Mission church, a small brick building, consisting of nave, west porch and a turret containing one bell, was erected by subscription, at a cost of £300 in 1874, and will seat 100 persons. Here is also a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. This manor having been given to Thurgarton Priory by Ralph de Ayncourt, the founder, some few Black or Austin canons belonging to that monastery were placed in the court or manor house, and had a chapel there dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. William Wright esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner, and resides at the Manor House, which is situated on a pleasant lawn, near the river Trent. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, gravel and stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area of the new parish is 1,548 acres of land and 25 of water; rateable value, £3,788; the population in 1901 was 369.