Flintham

The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.

The Community Library at Bingham is also an excellent resource.

Flintham has a large Cemetery out behind the churchyard, located at 3 Inholme Road.

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Augustine of Canterbury.
   
• The church was rebuilt with a smaller footprint in 1828.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Augustine's Church on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2013.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1576 and is in fair order.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Bingham.
   
• The Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists had chapels here by 1869.
   

• The parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This village and parish are 6.5 miles south-west from Newark-on-Trent, 5 miles north-east of Bingham and 130 north of London. The parish covers about 2,450 acres. Coneygre is a cultivated estate in the parish.

If you are planning a visit:

• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Flintham Museum and Community Shop on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2009.
   
• The village is on the A46 trunk road.

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Flintham to another place.

Colonel Thomas Blackburn HILDYARD was born in 1788. the eldest son of Colonel Thomas Thoroton. In 1815 Thomas married Anne Catherine Whyte (1784-1853), niece and heiress of Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard, 4th Baronet (1744-1814), of Winestead and Sedbury, Yorkshire. Thomas took the surname Hildyard under the terms of the 4th Baronet's will. Thomas was a colonel in the Coldstream Guards, and served as High Sheriff of Nottingham in 1817. He lived here prior to his death in July 1830.

• The village holds a feast on Whit-Sunday.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Flintham pinfold on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of the Boot and Shoe Public House on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
   
• These are the names associated with the Boot and Shoe P. H. in various directories:

• Visit the Community website for more information on the village.
   

• Flintham Hall, the seat of the HILDYARD family, and was occupied by Thomas Blackborne Thoroton HILDYARD, Esq. in 1869.
   
• The Hall was occupied by Mrs. Ann Cath. HILYARD in 1832.
   
• The Hall was occupied by Captain Douglas LANE in 1881.
   
• The Hall was built of Ancaster stone and stood in a 22-acre park, half of which was a lake.
   
• The Hall still stands and has been used as a setting for several motion pictures.
   
• Jonathan THACKERY has a photograph of Flintham Hall on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2012.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the conservatory at Flintham Hall on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2014.
   

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK740460 (Lat/Lon: 53.00621, -0.898644), Flintham which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for October 19, 1914 tells us that farmer Elston REVILL hosted the Flintham Ploughmen's Association annual ploughing match. They donated all the money from the event to the War Relief Fund.

The Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 7, 1914 tells us that:

"Flintham School's 45-year-old head master Albert John TUCKER, a father of four, joined the Dorset Regiment last week – and served on the Home Front until his demob as a Lieutenant on 27 December 1918.  His wife Rosa Elizabeth and their oldest child, 21-year-old Doris Minnie, taught the village children until his return."

• The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village.
   
• Robbie SHAW has a photograph of HMS Flintham on ShipSpotting, taken in August, 2008.
   
• RAF Syerston was located just north-west of the village.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a derelict building at RAF Syerston on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2009.
   
• James ALLAN has a photograph of a the Airmens' quarters for RAF Syerston on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2010.
   
• There is a brass plaque inside the parish church that commemorates World War I.
   

The names on the World War I plaque inside the church are:

1. JACKSON, Henry L
2. JACKSON, Henry Percy
3. PATTINSON, George Ernest
4. RAWSON, Ernest
5. SHEPHERD, Fred
6. WHITAKER, Charles
7. WHITAKER, John

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for June 7th, 1915 tells us that 22-year-old private Ralph PALMER of the 16th Royal Engineers died of Malaria while serving in Sierra Leone.

The Newark Great War Bulletin ('Our Nottinghamshire' site) for December 6th, 1915 tells us that Flintham raised £8 for Christmas presents for its troops and decided to send socks to the men at the Front, plus pork pies, chocolates, cakes and tobacco.

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• This parish was in the north division of the Bingham Hundred or Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Flintham Parish Council regarding civic or political issues, but they are NOT staffed to help with family history lookups.
   
• District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings held every other Thursday.
   
• The Common Land was enclosed here in 1780.
   
• Robert HACKER left the income from land in Bandon, Lincolnshire, for the benefit of the parish poor. In 1881, that was about £43 a year.
   
• After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Population
1801	459
1831	545
1841	611
1851	639
1861	524
1881	381
1891	346
1901	338

• The first Primary School was built here in 1779.
   
• In 1869 the parish also had a school for 12 girls.
   
• A National School was built here in 1873.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of a the current Flintham Primary School in Church Lane on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2009.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of a the Disused Al-Jamia Al-Islamia School on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2007.
   

• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Flintham Museum operated by the Flintham Society on Geo-graph, taken in December, 2009.