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Flintham is a village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district in Nottinghamshire, 7 miles (11 km) from Newark-on-Trent and opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. It had a population of 597 at the 2011 census,. estimated at 586 in 2019, City Population. Retrieved 30 January 2021. and a fall to 563 at the 2021 census. The village name was taken by the Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham.
The village has a primary school, currently closed, 12 August 2021. a village hall (the old school building),Village site Retrieved 9 April 2016. and a cricket pavilion. Its one pub, the Boot and Shoe Inn, is in Main Street. There is also a voluntarily run Flintham Community Shop and a museum of rural life.. Several gardens are normally open to the public for a summer weekend each year.Village site Retrieved 9 April 2016.
Flintham Football Club was founded in 1969, however, it was rebranded 3BFC in 2011 and moved out of the village.
"a pleasant and well-built village, 6½ miles south-west by south of Newark, including within its parish 637 inhabitants and of rich loamy land, at a rateable value of £3,324, which was enclosed about the year 1780, when were allotted to the vicar, and about to Trinity College, in lieu of tithes, exclusive of 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 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." White's Directory of Nottinghamshire (1853), p. 429.
In 1846 Hildyard entered political life as the Conservative Member of Parliament for the southern division of Nottinghamshire. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament, Vol. XCV, G. Woodfall and Son, London, 1848. It was a toughly contested election. Hildyard was supported, according to the University of Nottingham, by the 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme "in spite of the fact that Newcastle's son, the Earl of Lincoln, was his opponent. Lincoln attacked Hildyard's youth and inexperience, but the 'young squire' still defeated him by a majority of almost 700. Hildyard held South Nottinghamshire from 1846 until 1852. He was re-elected in 1866. He then continued to represent the South Nottinghamshire constituency until his retirement in 1885." Thomas Blackborne Thoroton-Hildyard (1821–1888; M.P.), The University of Nottingham, nottingham.ac.uk.
The name of the Hildyard family of Flintham was initially Thoroton. The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, thorotonsociety.org.uk Col. Hildyard, father of MP Hildyard, was formerly called Thomas Blackborne Thoroton. The second son of Thomas Hildyard, formerly Thomas Thoroton, took holy orders and became a rector. In 1816 the Rev. Levett Thoroton married in London the daughter of Grant Baronets of Dalvey, Elgin, Scotland, and MP. Rev. Levett Thoroton later became a rector in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where his family owned land, . but changed his name to Hildyard in 1815 on marrying a Hildyard heiress, the niece of Sir Robert d'Arcy Hildyard, 4th and last Baronet, who died without issue leaving his estate to his niece. Thoroton vs. Blackborne et al., 1731, William Kelynge's Reports in Chancery, Great Britain Court of Chancery, 1764. Col. Thoroton Hildyard was descended from Mary (Levett) Blackborne, who was the daughter of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of LondonMost of the Levett family portraits and other heirlooms went to Mary Levett's older sister, who married Edward Hulse, physician to the Royal family. The Hulse baronets resides at Breamore House in Hampshire. and the widow of merchant Abraham Blackborne, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, Thoroton Society, published by the Society, 1953 and her second husband Robert Thoroton of Screveton Hall, Nottinghamshire. (Robert Thoroton and his wife Mary became parties to a contentious lawsuit with the Blackborne family heirs — Thoroton vs. Blackborne — over an enormous estate left by William Hewer, longtime friend of diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty Samuel Pepys.) William Kelynge's Reports in Chancery, In the 4th and 5th Years of George II (1730–1732), Great Britain Court of Chancery, Peter King, Robert Raymond, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Philip Yorke Hardwicke, William Kelynge, Published by Stevens and Haynes, London, 1873.
The Thoroton Hildyard family continues to reside at the Hall. Flintham Hall in the 1920s, Nottinghamshire History, nottshistory.org.uk.Before their purchase of Flintham Hall, the Thorotons owned Screveton Hall, another family property, located in Screveton, less than two miles south of Flintham. Screveton Hall has since been demolished.[21]. Flintham Hall, now the home of Myles's nephew Sir Robert Hildyard and his wife Lucy, was recently chief location for "Easy Virtue," a movie based on the Noël Coward play. Newark Advertiser, newarkadvertiser.co.uk . It was also used in And When Did You Last See Your Father?, a film starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth, directed by Anand Tucker,
The village has a circular brick pinfold resembling those at Screveton and Scarrington.Waymarking. Retrieved 1 January 2016. A windmill stood in Broad Marsh field from 1779 to 1847 ().Notts Archive ref. DDH 86/1
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