Flintham
| Flintham | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St Augustine of Canterbury Church, Flintham | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK740460 |
| Location: | 53°0’22"N, -0°53’49"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 597 (2011) |
| Post town: | Newark |
| Postcode: | NG23 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Rushcliffe |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Flintham is a village in Nottinghamshire, some seven miles from Newark-on-Trent, opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. Its population was 597 at the 2011 Census.
The name 'Flintham' seems to contain an Old English personal name, presumed to be Flinta, so Flintan ham would mean 'Flinta's homestead (or village)'.[1][2] The presumption that it is named after flint in the soil (which would indeed be flint ham in Old English) is exploded by the fact that flint does not exist in the neighbourhood.[1]
Parish church
The parish church is the Church if St Augustine of Canterbury. It is a mediæval church, with a Norman tower. It was heavily restored in the Victorian Age though and so this Romanesque tower has a Victorian nave and chancel attached to it.[3]
The church is within the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham and now belongs to the Fosse Group of parishes, with S Peter's Church, East Bridgford; St Helen's Church, Kneeton; St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton; and St Mary's Church, Car Colston.[4]
History and heritage
White's Directory of Nottinghamshire described Flintham in 1853 as:
"a pleasant and well-built village, 6½ miles south-west by south of Newark, including within its parish 637 inhabitants and 2,110 acres of rich loamy land, at a rateable value of £3,324, which was enclosed about the year 1780, when 172 acres were allotted to the vicar, and about 300 acres to Trinity College, in lieu of tithes, exclusive of 165 acres which had previously belonged to the said college. The greater part of the parish belongs to Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard Esq., but Francis Fryer Esq., Richard Hall Esq. and John Clark Esq. have also estates here. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor, which he holds in fee of the King's Duchy of Lancaster, together with several others in this neighbourhood. His Grace has no land here except 6 acres allotted to him at the enclosure. Flintham Hall, which has been successively the seat of the Husseys, Hackers, Woodhouses, Disneys, Fytches and Thorotons, is now the residence of Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard Esq. It is a handsome modern edifice, erected on the site of the ancient mansion. It owes many of its present beauties to the late Col. Hildyard."[5]
Plough Boy's play
Flintham is one of twenty or so places in Nottinghamshire where the local historian Maurice Barley (1909–1991) found evidence of a traditional Plough Boy's Play being performed. It consists of 151 lines of text and involves seven characters. It was last performed in Flintham in 1925.[6]
Flintham Hall
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Flintham Hall is a Grade I listed country house in the Flintham estate, on the western edge of Flintham village. It was built in 1798 on the site of an earlier house bought from the Disney family by Thomas Thoroton in 1789. It was extended in 1820–1830 by the architect Lewis Wyatt for Colonel. T. Thoroton and again remodelled in 1853–1859 by George Thomas Hine for Thomas Blackborne Thoroton Hildyard.
The house is built on two and three storeys, 11 bays wide and 3 bays deep with an attached glassed Victorian conservatory. The conservatory, influenced by London's Crystal Palace, is the finest of its type left in Britain.[7]
The Thoroton Hildyard family continues to reside at the Hall.[8]
Flintham Hall, now the home of Myles's nephew Sir Robert Hildyard and his wife Lucy. It has fequently been used as a filming location, including Easy Virtue, a film based on the Noël Coward play and And When Did You Last See Your Father?, a film directed by Anand Tucker.
About the village
The village pub is the Boot and Shoe Inn, on Main Street.
There is also a voluntarily run Flintham Community Shop and a museum of rural life.[9] Several gardens are normally open to the public for a summer weekend each year.[10]
The village has a circular brick pinfold resembling those at Screveton and Scarrington.[11] A windmill stood in Broad Marsh field from 1779 to 1847 (SK742462).[12]
Sport
- Cricket: (the village has a cricket pavilion)
- Football: Flintham Football Club was founded in 1969.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Flintham) |
- "Papers of the Thoroton and Hildyard families of Screveton and Flintham, Nottinghamshire; 1478–2005", University of Nottingham
- Hilyard Family of Flintham Hall, 17th–19th Century, National Register of Archives, nationalarchives.gov.uk
- Flintham Hall today, Flickr.com
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Nottinghamshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1940), page 224
- ↑ Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
- ↑ Flintham: St Augustine of Canterbury Church: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
- ↑ Fosse Group: services
- ↑ White's Directory of Nottinghamshire (1853),p. 429.
- ↑ M. W. Barley, "Plough Plays in the East Midlands", Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Vol. 7:2 (1953),pp. 93–94. Text: PLOUGH BOY'S PLAY: Flintham, Notts. (M. W. Barley Collection, 1948).
- ↑ National Heritage List 1272727: Flintham Hall and Adjoining Terrace Wall, Flintham (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Flintham Hall in the 1920s, Nottinghamshire History, nottshistory.org.uk.
- ↑ "The Flintham Museum Collection". Flintham-museum.org.uk. 16 October 2013. http://www.flintham-museum.org.uk/..
- ↑ Flintham Village
- ↑ Waymarking. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ↑ Notts Archive ref. DDH 86/1