Flintham
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Flintham is a village in Nottinghamshire within a few miles of Newark, opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. It has a population of circa 650 and a school, village hall, church and cricket pavillion. It has one pub, the Boot and Shoe Inn on Main Street. It also has a community shop run by volunteers called Flintham Community Shop. The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village.
The church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury, and has "a Victorian nave attached to a Norman Tower and chancel."[1]
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[edit] Historical
Flintham "is a pleasant and well-built village, 6½ miles south-west by south of Newark, including within its parish 637 inhabitants and 2,110 acres (8.5 km²) of rich loamy land, at a rateable value of £3,324, which was enclosed about the year 1780, when 172 acres (0.70 km²) were allotted to the vicar, and about 300 acres (1.2 km²) to Trinity College, in lieu of tithes, exclusive of 165 acres (0.67 km²) 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 six 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." [2]
Thomas Hildyard was formerly called Thomas Blackborne Thoroton, but changed his name to Hildyard in 1815 on marrying a Hildyard heiress.[3][4]
A windmill stood in Broad Marsh field from 1779 to 1847 (grid reference SK742462)[5].
[edit] Flintham Plough Boy's play
Flintham is also the place where the traditional English folk play originated called the Plough Boy's Play. It was last performed in 1925. The play only consists of 151 lines of text and involves only 7 characters.[6]
[edit] Flintham Football Club
Football club founded in 1969, currently playing in Newark Alliance Division 3.
[edit] Notes
- ^ FLINTHAM, Flintham: St Augustine of Canterbury Church - Nottinghamshire | Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
- ^ White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853
- ^ Thoroton vs. Blackborne et al, 1731, William Kelynge's Reports in Chancery, Great Britain Court of Chancery, 1764
- ^ Thomas Thoroton, Dictionary of National Biography, Sidney Lee, 1898
- ^ Notts Archive ref. DDH 86/1
- ^ PLOUGH BOY'S PLAY: Flintham, Notts. (M.W.Barley Collection, 1948)
