"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 )〕