| 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 | ||||||
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| 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]