Perlethorpe
| Perlethorpe | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St John, Perlethorpe | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK648711 |
| Location: | 53°13’59"N, 1°1’41"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 183 (2011) |
| Post town: | Newark-on-Trent |
| Postcode: | NG22 |
| Dialling code: | 01623 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Newark and Sherwood |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sherwood |
Perlethorpe is a small village in Nottinghamshire. It is located three miles north-west of Ollerton. According to the 2001 the parish had a population of 183 at the 2011 Census.
Nearby is Thoresby Hall, the former home of the Earl Manvers.
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Name
The name of Perlethorpe is of uncertain etymology. It contains the Old Norse þorp, meaning 'village'; a place-name element common in Nottinghamshire, and nearby Lincolnshire. The first element of the name, perle is unknown. However, there are three particularly popular suggestions: the first is "rush of water" from the Old English and Middle English perle, the second is that the original name may have been Palethorpe, with 'pale' meaning area enclosed by a boundary; thirdly it may have been a deviation from 'Peverelthorpe'[1] after William Peverel, a powerful landowner in the area during the reign of King Henry II.
Geography and history
The village itself is located about a quarter of a mile west of the A614, about half a mile north of Ollerton and ten miles north east of Mansfield. The River Meden runs nearby.
The village is built beside a large green, with a village hall, a large church, St John the Evangelist, and a village shop. There was once a primary school in the village but that has since been closed down and the building used as an Environmental Education Centre.
Although the village has a much longer history, the oldest buildings which now remain date back only as far as the middle of the 19th century.
Parish church
The Church of St John was built in 1876 and became the parish church in 1877.[1]
St John's was built by the architect Anthony Salvin for the Lord of the Manor, third Earl Manvers. It underwent restoration in 1904[2] Salvin designed the church in a Decorated Gothic style typical of the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.
About the village
The half-timbered Almshouses near the church were built by Walter Owen Hickson c. 1890.[3] Perhaps the most striking buildings are the "Redbrick" buildings, dating from the 1950s which are found clustered around the village green. These, like many of the older dwellings, were used exclusively for workers at Thoresby Hall when they were first built.
Roman coins were found in the village in the 2000s.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Perlethorpe) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Perlethorpe: Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project
- ↑ National Heritage List 1045471: Perlethorpe (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1
