Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OWTHORPE

OWTHORPE, a parish in Bingham district, Notts; on the Grantham canal and adjacent to the Fosse way, 4¼ miles S S E of Ratcliffe r. station, and 4¾ S S W of Bingham. Post-town, Cotgrave, under Nottingham. Acres, 1, 700. Real property, £1, 589. Pop., 112. Houses, 25. Owthorpe Hall was the seat of Col. Hutchinson, whose " Memoirs" were written by his wife. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £70. Patron, Sir Henry Bromley, Bart. The church is old, has a tower, and contains monuments of the Hutchinsons.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Owthorpe AP/CP       Bingham RegD/PLU       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Owthorpe

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