[2] Hawton played an important part in the English Civil War as a Roundhead encampment against the Royalist stronghold in Newark.

In the early 14th century, the first manorial building was put up by the de Compton family on an earlier site in the demesne.

Sir Thomas Molyneux added the clerestory and tower to the church, which boldly overlooks the flood plain of the River Trent.

[3] "[Hawton,] 2 miles south-south-west of Newark, is a scattered village and parish pleasantly situated on the River Devon, comprising 227 inhabitants, and 2,150 acres (8.7 km2) of land, mostly belonging to Robert Holden Esq., of Nuthall Temple.

The Duke of Newcastle and Thomas Scales have small estates here, which was soc to Newark, to which this parish adjoins, near the extensive linen manufactory called Hawton's Mills.