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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]
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The Library at Nottingham will prove useful in your research.
The Community Library at Bingham is also an excellent resource.
- The parish was in the Ratcliff on Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District until November, 1883.
- After November, 1883, the parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year | Piece No. |
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| 1841 | H.O. 107 / 853 |
| 1851 | H.O. 107 / 2133 |
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2485 |
| 1871 | R.G. 10 / 3548 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2718 |
- The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Margaret.
- The church was built about 1650.
- The church occupies the site of a much larger and older ediface.
- The church seats 75.
- Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of St. Margaret's Church on Geo-graph, taken in October, 2011.
- The Anglican parish register dates from 1735.
- You can find Owthorpe burials 1814 -1902 on Notts FHS burials CD.
- And marriages 1605 - 1900 on Notts FHS marriages CD.
- IGI Batch nos. covering Owthorpe are C060551 C060552 M060551 M060552.
- The church was in the South Bingham rural deanery.
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Ratcliff on Trent sub-district of the Bingham Registration District until November, 1883.
- After November, 1883, the parish was in the Bingham sub-district of the Bingham Registration District.
Owthorpe is both a village and a parish 9 miles south-east of Nottingham between Cropwell Bishop and Kinoulton, on the western edge of the Vale of Belvoir. The parish covers 1,700 acres.
The Grantham Canal passes just east of the village. If you are planning a visit:
- By automobile, take the A46 between Newark and Leicester and turn off to the east at Owthorpe Road.
- We have an extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Owthorpe to another place.
- See our Maps page for additional resources.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK671334 (Lat/Lon: 52.893871, -1.004059), Owthorpe 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.
- There is a monument in the church to Colonel John HUTCHINSON (1615-1664), 'one of the regicides'. He was one of 39 men to sign the death-warrant for Charles I. In 1659 he was made High Sheriff of Nottingham.
- There is a modern Great War Memorial brass plaque on a wooden base mounted on the south wall of the nave in St. Margaret's Church.
These are the names listed on the St. Margaret Church War Memorial Plaque:
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There is a World War Two brass plaque memorial to private John STEWART in the church.
- This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
- This parish was in the southern division of the county in the south division of the Bingham Wapentake.
- The citizens of this parish have elected to forgo a formal Parish Council and have instead decided to have Parish Meetings to discuss civic and political issues.
- District governance is provided by the Rushcliffe Borough Council.
- Bastardy cases would be heard in the Bingham petty session hearings held every other Thursday.
- After the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, this parish became part of the Bingham Poor Law Union.