Ompton

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Ompton
Nottinghamshire
Location
Grid reference: SK688651
Location: 53°10’48"N, -0°58’12"W
Data
Population: 449  (2011 (with Laxton,
Moorhouse and Ossington)
Post town: Retforrd
Postcode: NG22
Local Government
Council: Newark and Sherwood
Parliamentary
constituency:
Newark

Ompton is a village in Nottinghamshire, three miles south-east of Ollerton. To the south-west stands Kneesall and to the north-west Wellow.

The village has a red-brick chapel of 1860, while about half a mile to the west is a water pumping station, built 1965–68 as a tiled pyramid on a glazed plinth.[1]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Ompton)

References

  1. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1page 282

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