George Nelson Godwin (1846–1907) was an English cleric, known for his antiquarian works with emphasis on Hampshire.
[1] After filling curacies at Heanor (1869–72), East Bergholt (1873–6), and Capel St. Mary (1876–7), Godwin was appointed a chaplain of the forces in 1877.
From 1890 to 1893 he was vicar of East Boldre, and after holding other parochial appointments, became curate in charge of Stokesby in Norfolk.
[2] Godwin died suddenly of heart failure while staying for the night at an inn in Little Walsingham on 10 January 1907, and was buried in the churchyard there.
He wrote, with other topographical works, The Green Lanes of Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex (1882), and (with Henry March Gilbert) Bibliotheca Hantoniensis (1891).