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Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire

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Fiskerton is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England on the west bank of the River Trent about 3 miles southeast of Southwell. Until the 1950s there was a ferry boat service over to the other side of the River Trent at Stoke Field. Fiskerton Mill lies on the River Greet a few hundred yards upstream from its junction with the River Trent.Fiskerton Windmill was a wooden postmill with a substantial brick roundhouse, standing off Station Road. A mill was marked at this site on Chapman's map of 1774. The mill ceased working some time in the last quarter of the 19th century. Only the roundhouse now remains.The village's location beside the Trent attracts walkers, picnickers and casual visitors in summer. The village has a riverside pub called the Bromley Arms.The village of Fiskerton is also known in Evangelical Christian circles as the homeplace of Henri and Connie Staples, who lived there from 1964 to 2000 and regularly held 'revival meetings' in the Methodist Chapel.Richard Thomas Parker, who murdered his mother in Fiskerton in 1864, was the last person to be publicly hanged in Nottingham.