Owthorpe

Owthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the Wolds of the English county of Nottinghamshire. The population of about 90 was included in the civil parish of Cotgrave in the 2011 Census.

Owthorpe is adjacent to the parishes of Cropwell Bishop, Stanton on the Wolds, Cotgrave, Kinoulton and Colston Bassett, two miles south-east of Cotgrave and nine miles south-east of Nottingham. It forms part of the borough of Rushcliffe. The Grantham Canal lies to its east, as does the Fosse Way, whose line is followed by the A46 trunk road between Leicester and Lincoln. In 2006 the borough council recorded a population of 90 for Owthorpe, so that the parish is too small to have a parish council and has a parish meeting instead.

There are low-frequency weekday bus services to Cotgrave and Keyworth and term-time school buses to Bingham. The nearest railway station is at Radcliffe on Trent (4 miles, 6.5 km). The nearest shops and medical and sports services are in Cotgrave. There is self-catering accommodation at Woodview Cottages, Newfields Farm. The Little Retreat, Colston Bassett Lane, provides spa treatments.

A large manor house, Owthorpe Hall, was located here until it burned to the ground in a fire. It was the seat of the Hutchinson family, one famous member of which was John Hutchinson, the Parliamentarian army officer and regicide. The family vault under the nave of the church is now sealed off, but when the floor gave way in 1859 it was found to contain 17 coffins.

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