Bassetlaw Wapentake

Bassetlaw was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) in the English county of Nottinghamshire.

The wapentake covered an area in the north of the county, roughly equivalent to the modern Bassetlaw local government district.

The place name Bassetlaw means the hill of the people of Bersa.

Other towns were Tuxford, Worksop and Ollerton (the latter of which is in the modern Newark and Sherwood district).

[2] At some point between 1610 and 1719, it absorbed the Oswaldbeck wapentake, which became the North Clay division.