Flintham
"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 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
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."
[White's "Directory of Nottinghamshire," 1853]
- The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2483 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2717 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Augustine of Canterbury.
- The church was rebuilt with a smaller footprint in 1828.
- The village holds a feast on Whit-Sunday.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Parish Church on Geo-graph, taken in 2007.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1576 and is in fair order.
- The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
- The Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists had chapels here by 1869.
- The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
This village and parish are 6.5 miles south-west from Newark-on-Trent, 5 miles north-east of Bingham and 130 north of London. The parish covers about 2,450 acres. Coneygre is a cultivated estate in the parish.
If you are planning a visit:
- The village is on the A46 trunk road.
- Stop in at the Local History Museum, photographed here by Alan MURRAY-RUST in 2009.
- Flintham Hall, the seat of the HILDYARD family, was occupied by Captain Douglas LANE in 1881.
- The Hall was built of Ancaster stone and stood in a 22-acre park, half of which was a lake.
- The Hall still stands and has been used as a setting for several motion pictures.
- Here is a photograph Flintham Hall taken on a rainy day.
- Jonathan THACKER has a photograph of Flintham Hall on Geo-graph, taken in 2012.
- The national grid reference is SK 7446.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village.
- RAF Syerston was built in the late 1930s due to concerns about German aggression. The base lies mostly in Flintham parish, but Syerston parish is happy to claim the name.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the entrance to RAF Syerston on Geo-graph, taken in 2009.
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the north division of the Bingham Hundred or Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
- The Common Land was enclosed here in 1780.
- Robert HACKER left the income from land in Bandon, Lincolnshire, for the benefit of the parish poor. In 1881, that was about £43 a year.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
| Year |
Population |
| 1801 |
459 |
| 1841 |
611 |
| 1851 |
639 |
| 1861 |
524 |
| 1881 |
381 |
| 1891 |
346 |
| 1901 |
338 |
- A National School was built here in 1873.
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[Last updated: 15-January-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
