Flintham Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Flintham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Augustine
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1576
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
FLINTHAM (St. Augustine), a parish, in the union and N. division of the wapentake of Bingham, S. division of the county of Nottingham, 6½ miles (S. W.) from Newark; containing 611 inhabitants.
It is situated on the Trent, and comprises by admeasurement 2101 acres, whereof 1471 are arable, 420 pasture, and 210 woodland; the soil is a red marl in the lower part of the parish, and in the upper part sandy.
The village, which is of considerable extent, is near the Roman fosse road, and several relics of Roman antiquity have been found.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £6. 2. 6.; net income, £308; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge; the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1775; the land comprises 172 acres. The church, an ancient and spacious structure, was, with the exception of the chancel, rebuilt in 1828, at an expense of £1100, defrayed by Col. Hildyard.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. In 1727, Robert Hacker bequeathed land, the income of which, about £20, is applied to instruction.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Bingham
- Probate Court: Court of the Manor of St John of Jerusalem or Shelford St Johns
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Bingham
- Poor Law Union: Bingham
- Hundred: Bingham
- Province: York