- Flintham
Flintham is a village in
Nottinghamshire within a few miles of Newark, oppositeRAF Syerston on the A46. It has a population of circa 650 and a school, village hall, church and cricket pavilion. It has one pub, the " [http://www.thebootandshoeinn.com Boot and Shoe Inn] " on " [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/81058 Main Street] ". It also has a community shop run by volunteers called Flintham Community Shop. TheHam class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village.The [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/81024 church] is dedicated to St Augustine of
Canterbury , and has "a Victorian nave attached to a Norman Tower and chancel." [ [http://www.acny.org.uk/5527/ FLINTHAM, Flintham: St Augustine of Canterbury Church - Nottinghamshire | Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham ] ]Historical
Flintham "is a pleasant and well-built village, 6½ miles south-west by south of Newark, including within its parish 637 inhabitants and convert|2110|acre|km2 of rich loamy land, at a rateable value of £3,324, which was enclosed about the year 1780, when convert|172|acre|km2 were allotted to the vicar, and about convert|300|acre|km2 to Trinity College, in lieu of tithes, exclusive of convert|165|acre|km2 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'sDuchy 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." [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Flintham/index.html White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853] ]Thomas Hildyard was formerly called Thomas Blackborne Thoroton, but changed his name to Hildyard in 1815 on marrying a Hildyard heiress. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=2acKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=%22flintham+house%22&source=web&ots=Cxanad4f5V&sig=3W6UZRITmMPYAXnhTOrWhnCdKgM&hl=en Thoroton vs. Blackborne et al, 1731, William Kelynge's Reports in Chancery, Great Britain Court of Chancery, 1764] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=ECgJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=thoroton+blackborne&source=web&ots=B6LjUw0Txf&sig=XJs55_0rw6Dbx-jNgEkjP9WJAUI&hl=en#PPA314,M1 Thomas Thoroton, Dictionary of National Biography, Sidney Lee, 1898] ] He was descended from Mary (Levett) Blackborne, daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, and her second husband Robert Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=HBVbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA794&dq=blackborne+thoroton The Dictionary of National Biography, Sidney Lee, Vol. XIX, The Macmillan Company, New York, London, 1909] ]
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windmill stood in Broad Marsh field from 1779 to 1847 (gbmapping|SK742462) [Notts Archive ref. DDH 86/1] .Flintham Plough Boy's play
Flintham is also the place where the traditional English folk play originated called the "Plough Boy's Play". It was last performed in 1925. The play only consists of 151 lines of text and involves only 7 characters. [ [http://www.folkplay.info/Notts/Td00462.htm PLOUGH BOY'S PLAY: Flintham, Notts. (M.W.Barley Collection, 1948) ] ]
Flintham Football Club
Football [http://www.freewebs.com/flinthamfc club] founded in 1969, currently playing in Newark Alliance Division 3.
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