Darlton is a small village and civil parish in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England.

[3] Kingshaugh House was originally a hunting lodge built to serve the eastern Le Clay division of Sherwood Forest.

The present Kingshaugh House is a late 17th-century farmhouse that appears to incorporate some masonry from the lodge.

In 1667 Read founded a grammar school and a set of almshouses at Drax in Yorkshire.

When Read died, his will founded further grammar schools at Tuxford in Nottinghamshire and Corby Glen in Lincolnshire.