Flintham
Flintham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire within a few miles of Newark, opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. Its population was 597 at the 2011 Census. The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village.
The Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Augustine of Canterbury and has "a Victorian nave attached to a Norman tower and chancel." It belongs to the Fosse Group, with St Peter's Church, East Bridgford, St Helen's Church, Kneeton, St Wilfrid's Church, Screveton, and St Mary's Church, Car Colston. A service is held about once a month.
The village has a primary school with an enrolment of 108 in 2009, a village hall (the old school building) and a cricket pavilion. Its one pub, the Boot and Shoe Inn is in Main Street. In addition, there is a community shop run by volunteers called Flintham Community Shop, and a museum of rural life. Several gardens are opened to the public for one summer weekend a year.
Flintham Football Club was founded in 1969 and currently plays in Newark Alliance Division 3.
The place-name Flintham seems to contain an Old English personal name, Flinta, + hām (Old English), a village, a manor, an estate or a homestead, so probably, "Flinta's homestead or village". The hard grey rock, flint, does not exist in the neighbourhood.
White's Directory of Nottinghamshire described Flintham in 1853 as:
"a pleasant and well-built village, 6½ miles south-west by south of Newark, including within its parish 637 inhabitants and 2,110 acres (8.5 km2) of rich loamy land, at a rateable value of £3,324, which was enclosed about the year 1780, when 172 acres (0.70 km2) were allotted to the vicar, and about 300 acres (1.2 km2) to Trinity College, in lieu of tithes, exclusive of 165 acres (0.67 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's Duchy of Lancaster, together with several others in this neighbourhood. His Grace has no land here except 6 acres (2.4 ha) 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."
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