Flintham, Nottinghamshire
Historical Description
Flintham, a large village and a parish in Notts, on the Fosse Way and the river Trent, at Hazleford ferry, 3½ miles ESE of Thurgarton railway station, and 6½ SW of Newark, with a post and money order office under Newark; telegraph office, East Bridgeford. Acreage, 2201; population, 346. The manor belongs to T. B. Thoroton Hildyard, Esq., M.A., D.L., J.P., whose seat, Flintham Hall, is a handsome building standing in a park of 250 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net yearly value, £138 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church was mainly rebuilt in 1828, but retains the chancel and the tower of a previous church, which was cruciform. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. An endowed school has £12, and other charities.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Nottinghamshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Flintham St. Augustine | |
Poor Law union | Bingham | |
Wapentake | Bingham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Flintham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Flintham (St. Augustine))
- Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire, 1904
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Nottinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Flintham are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Nottinghamshire newspapers online: