Holme, Nottinghamshire

Description
Holme, a parish in Notts, on the river Trent, 3 1/2 miles N of Newark stations on the G.N.R. and M.R. Post town, Newark; money order and telegraph office, Collingham. Acreage, 1128; population, 100. The manor belongs to the Duk£ of Newcastle. Holme Hall was, in the middle of the 17tb century, the residence of Lord Bellasis, and has ever since then been occupied as a farmhouse. Population of the ecclesiastical parish of Holme with Langford, 281. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Langford, in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £145 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is ancient, consists of nave, chancel, and S aisle, with a tower, and was partially restored in 1883. It has over its porch, "Nan Scott's. Chamber," to which a woman of that name fled from the Great Plague.