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"Owthorpe is a small village and parish upon the Grantham Canal, and on the eastern side of the lofty range of hills called the Wolds, nine miles south-east by east of Nottingham, and six miles south-south-west of Bingham. It contains only about 25 humble dwellings, 143 inhabitants, and 1,450 acres of cold clay land, of which Sir Robert Howe Bromley, Bart, is lord and principal owner, his father, Sir George Smith Bromley, Bart, having purchased the manor, with 1,300 acres of land, in 1773, of the Hutchinson family, who had held it for many generations.
For some time after the Conquest it was held by a family of its own name, and was of the fee of Roger de Busli. The hall and the church were both rebuilt about 1650 by Colonel John Hutchinson, who was an active parliamentary partisan during the civil wars of Charles I, in which he was sometime governor of Nottingham Castle. Though he sat in judgement upon his Sovereign, no active means were taken to apprehend him at the Restoration, and he seems to have lived secretly in Owthorpe Hall till 1663, when he was arrested on his road to the church by a party of horse under the command of Cornet Atkinson, and was conveyed to Deal castle in Kent, where he died a prisoner, but was interred in Owthorpe Church. The Hall, a large square mansion, was pulled down by the present owner of the estate."
[White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853]
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2133 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2485 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2718 |
Owthorpe is both a village and a parish 9 miles southeast of Nottingham between Cropwell Bishop and Kinoulton, on the western edge of the Vale of Belvoir. The parish covers 1,700 acres.
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Year Inhabitants 1801 107 1851 137 1861 112 1871 113 1881 131 1891 105 1901 89 1911 115 1921 114 1931 99
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