Flintham

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Flintham is a village in Nottinghamshire within a few miles of Newark. It has a population of circa 650 and a school, village hall, church and cricket pavillion. It has one pub, the Boot and Shoe Inn. It also has a community shop run by volunteers called Flintham Community Shop. The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village.

The church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury, and has "a Victorian nave attached to a norman Tower and chancel."[1]

[edit] Historical

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." [2]

[edit] 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.[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.acny.org.uk/5527/
  2. ^ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/NTT/Flintham/index.html White's Directory of Nottinghamshire 1853
  3. ^ http://www.folkplay.info/Notts/Td00462.htm
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