Holme, Nottinghamshire Explained

Country:England
Static Image Caption:St Giles' Church, Holme
Coordinates:53.12°N -0.8°W
Official Name:Holme
Population:80
Population Ref:(2021)
Shire District:Newark and Sherwood
Shire County:Nottinghamshire
Region:East Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Newark
Post Town:NEWARK
Postcode District:NG23
Postcode Area:NG
Dial Code:01636
Os Grid Reference:SK 801590
Type:Hamlet and civil parish
London Distance Mi:115
London Direction:SSE
Static Image 2 Name:
Frame-Width:240
Frame-Height:220
Zoom:12
Static Image Name:St.Giles' church - geograph.org.uk - 236524.jpg
Static Image 2 Caption:Parish map
Area Total Sq Mi:1.76

Holme is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. The population of the civil parish (including Langford) at the 2011 census was 165,[1] Holme alone registered 80 residents at the 2021 census. It is within the district of Newark and Sherwood, on the east of the River Trent, less than half a mile from the riverside and 4 miles north of Newark-on-Trent.

The parish church of St Giles is an Early Tudor rebuild of a 13th-century church. The Lancashire wool merchant John Barton was responsible for the rebuilding. He died in 1491, and is buried in the chancel with his wife. In a window of his house at Holme is inscribed the verse:

I thanke God, and ever shall,

It is the sheep have paid for all.[2]

Holme was historically a chapelry in the ancient parish of North Muskham. Until about 1575 it lay on the west side of the River Trent, but there was then a cataclysmic flood which changed the course of the river.[3] Holme was therefore separated by the river from the rest of the parish. In 1866 Holme became a separate civil parish.[4]

The last known catch of a sturgeon on the Trent occurred in 1902 near the village, the fish was eight and a half feet long and weighed 250 pounds.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 10 April 2016. Office for National Statistics. Neighbourhood Statistics.
  2. Book: Pevsner, Nikolaus . 1979 . The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire . 145 . Harmondsworth . Penguin .
  3. http://www.winthorpe.org.uk/langford-church/ Winthorpe Community Website: Langford Church History
  4. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10262240/relationships Vision of Britain website
  5. Book: Stone, Richard . 2005 . River Trent . Phillimore . 1860773567. 101–102.