Holme

The Library at Newark on Trent will prove useful in your research.

• The parish was in the Kneesal sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
   
• The church is believed to have been constructed in about 1485 by John BARTON, a local wool merchant.
   
• Over the church porch is a room called "Nan Scott's Chamber," where Nan Scott shut herself inside during the Great Plague of 1666. She is said to have survived the plague while most of the village died.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of Nan Scott's Chamber on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2005.
   
• The church was in a dilapidated state in 1881.
   
• In 1932, Nevile TRUMAN, a local historian and member of the British Association of Master Glass Painters, undertook the restoration of this church.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Giles' Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2007.
   
• John SUTTON has a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in February, 2010.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1703.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Collingham.
   
• The International Genealogical Index (IGI) includes records from this parish for the period 1623-1843.
   

• The parish was in the Kneesal sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

Holme is both a parish and a village on the east bank of the River Trent. The parish lies 128 miles north of London and 3.5 miles north of Newark-on-Trent. The parish covers 1,128 acres.

If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A1133 trunk road north out of Newark-on-Trent for about 3 miles. Turn left (west) onto the county road that leads to Holme.
   
• The village feast is held on the Sunday before September 19th.
   

• Geograph
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• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Holme to another place.

The Milestone Society has a photograph of the Old Central Cross by Main Street on Geo-graph, taken in 2018.

• Holme Hall was, in the middle of the 17th century, the residence of Lord Bellasis.
   
• By 1869, the Hall was occupied as a farm house.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK803591 (Lat/Lon: 53.123035, -0.801515), Holme which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Great War Bulletin for December 7, 1914 tells us that two men of Holme had been appointed as "Special Constables" to assist the police force in the event of a German invasion. J. S. BODDY, a farmer's son and A. H. PLUMB a cottager.

There is a single War Memorial plaque inside St. Giles Church dedicated to Herbert ("Bertie") Charles KEY, who died in France in September, 1917. It reads:

"In loving memory of Herbert Charles Key Lance Corporal 1/8th Sherwood Foreseters. Killed in action in No Man's Land in France. September 12th 1917, aged 22 years He died the noblest death a man may die, fighting for God and Right and Liberty, and such a death is immortality."

Within ten metres is the grave of another soldier, Arthur DEANE, 305800, who, records show, enlisted like Herbert Key at Newark and was also a lance-corporal in the 1/8th Sherwood Foresters. He died of wounds two months after Herbert KEY, also in France.

There is a grave slab in the Lady Chapel of the parish church:

"Here lie interred ye Body of John Belasys of Holme in the County of Nottingham, Esquire, And of Cathrine (sic) his wife. Catherine Dyed the 10th of March, 1716, and Mr. Belasyse the 10th of April, 1717. Requiescant in Pace. "

John Belasys was a descendant of the last of the Bartons. John and Catherine married in November 1716 but he died the following April, one month after his wife and their lines came to an end. The Barton estates passed to the Earl of Fauconberg who, in about 1780, sold them to the Duke of Newcastle. A member of the Belasys (Bellasis) family had been Governor of Newark during its last siege in the Civil War.

• This place was an ancient Chapelry and hamlet of North Muskham in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• In 1600, the River Trent shifted its path, separating Holme from North Muskham.
   
• In 1866, Holme was established as a separate Civil Parish.
   
• This parish was in the northern division of the Thurgarton Wapentake (or Hundred) in the southern division of the county.
   
• In March, 1884, this Civil Parish was enlarged by gaining a portion of Winthorpe Civil Parish.
   
• The citizens of Holme have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council, but they hold periodic Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political matters.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Newark petty session hearings every other Wednesday.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	111
1841	127
1861	121
1871	107
1881	127
1891	100
1901	100
1911	94
1921	73

• The children of this parish attended school in North Muskham.