Dunham-on-Trent
| Dunham-on-Trent | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 Church Walk, Dunham-on-Trent | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK813744 |
| Location: | 53°15’36"N, 0°46’48"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 343 (2011) |
| Post town: | Newark |
| Postcode: | NG22 |
| Dialling code: | 01777 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Bassetlaw |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Dunham-on-Trent is a village in the very east Nottinghamshire, hard by the Lincolnshire border, formed here by a tidal reach of the River Trent. It on the A57 road, about half a mile west of Dunham Bridge, a toll bridge crossing the Trent.
The 2011 census recorded a population of 343.
The parish church, St Oswald, is the Grade I listed building,[1] The earliest part of the church is the tower, dating from the 15th century and is in the Perpendicular Gothic style.[2] The rest is mostly Victorian, built 1861–62 in a restoration by T.C. Hine, father of George Thomas Hine, though the south nave wall remains from an earlier reconstruction completed in 1802.[3]
The site of Whimpton Village, a deserted mediæval village, is about a mile and a quarter west of Dunham.
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1370101: Church of St Oswald (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1page 111
- ↑ St Oswald's, Dunham: Southwell Churches
