Holme
"HOLME, a parish in Southwell district, Notts; on the river Trent, adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 3½ miles N of Newark. Post town, Newark. Acres, 1, 330. Real property, £1, 912. Pop., 121. Houses, 26. The manor belongs to the Duke of Newcastle. Holme Hall was, in the middle of the 17th century, the residence of Lord Bellasis; and has, ever since then, been inhabited by the Wells family. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Langford, in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £172. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is ancient; consists of nave, chancel, and S aisle, with a tower; contains several very ancient monuments, one to Lord Bellasis, and some to the Bartons; and has, over its porch, "Nan Scott's Chamber, " to which a woman of that name fled from the great plague."
[John Marius Wilson's "Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales." 1870-72]
- The parish was in the Kneesal sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
Census
Year |
Piece No. |
| 1861 |
R.G. 9 / 2474 |
| 1891 |
R.G. 12 / 2710 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Giles.
- The church is believed to have been constructed in the 14th century.
- 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.
- The church was in a delapidated state in 1881.
- Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Giles Church on a sunny day, on Geo-graph, taken in 2006.
- John SUTTON provides a photograph of the church interior on Geo-graph, taken in 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.
- 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.
- The national grid reference is SK 8059.
- You'll want an Ordinance Survey Explorer map, which has 2.5 inches to the mile scale.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
- 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.
- 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.
| 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.
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[Last updated: 4-February-2013 - Louis R. Mills]
