It is singular that in the parishes surrounding Scrooby the mansions and estates of Viscount Galway, C.B., A.D.C., the Chairman of the Notts.
Scrooby is well watered, "like the garden of the Lord," for the five streams of the Rainworth-water, the Maun, the Meden, the Wollen, and the Poulter, become the Idle, and form the eastern boundary of the parish.
Another diversion was made in Scrooby by the Turnpike Road Trustees who had authority to construct and divert so as to overcome the disability owing to the narrowness of the road in the village.
Scrooby Top House, about a mile south of Scroobyvillage, was built in 1780 by Thomas Fisher, formerly of the Swan in Bawtry.
This farmhouse, or Scrooby Manor, as it is called was the birthplace of one William Brewster, (1567-1644), English separatist and Plymouth colonist.
After studying briefly at Cambridge he became the chief member of the congregation at Scrooby that broke away, or separated, from the Anglican Church in 1606; the members, after their migration to Holland in 1608, were known as Pilgrims.
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