Treswell, Nottinghamshire

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Treswell is a village in north Nottinghamshire in England. It is at Ordnance Survey grid reference SK 780 793 GB Grid. Map at this link. The village is under the administration of Bassetlaw Council and Treswell parish council. The population is 260 living in 83 dwellings. Treswell has one post box, an old fashioned red telephone booth, a bus stop, a petrol and service garage, an active village hall, and a 13th century gothic church. The village also has a 19th century Methodist church but this recently closed and is being converted into a house.

Rampton Secure Hospital is nearby.

Its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Tireswelle and probably came from Anglo-Saxon Tīres wella = "well or spring belonging to [a man named] Tīr".