Perlethorpe

{{Short description|Village in Nottinghamshire, England}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{infobox UK place | country = England | static_image = St Johns Church (geograph 4265666).jpg | static_image_caption = St John’s Church, Perlethorpe. | coordinates = {{coord|53.233|-1.028|display=inline,title}} | civil_parish = Perlethorpe cum Budby | official_name = Perlethorpe | type = Village | population = | population_ref = | shire_district = Newark and Sherwood | shire_county = Nottinghamshire | region = East Midlands | constituency_westminster = Sherwood | post_town = NEWARK | postcode_district = NG22 | postcode_area = NG | dial_code = 01623 | os_grid_reference = SK648711 }} '''Perlethorpe''' is a small estate village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Perlethorpe cum Budby, in the Newark and Sherwood district, in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. Nearby is Thoresby Hall, the former home of the Earl Manvers and the village remains entirely owned by the Thoresby Estate. In 1891 the parish had a population of 139.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10269295/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Perlethorpe Ch/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=22 March 2023}}</ref>

==Etymology== Perlethorpe is from Old Norse ''thorp''/''þrop'' "village", a place-name element common in Nottinghamshire, and nearby Lincolnshire. The first element of the name, ''perle'' is unknown, and toponymists can only speculate as to its origin. However, there are three particularly popular suggestions. The first is "rush of water" from the Old English and Middle English ''perle''. The second is that it's a deviation from the possible original name Palethorpe, ''pale'' meaning "area enclosed by a boundary". Lastly it may have been a deviation from ''Peverelthorpe''<ref name="southwellchurches">{{cite web | url=http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/p01/hhistory.html | title=Perlethorpe – History | accessdate=10 June 2008 | work=Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project }} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> as William Peverel was a powerful landowner in the area during the reign of Henry II.

==Geography and history== The village itself is located about a quarter of a mile west of the A614, about half a mile north of Ollerton and 10 miles north east of Mansfield. The River Meden runs nearby. The village contains a large green, a village hall, the Estate Office for Thoresby Estate and a large church (of Saint John the Evangelist). There was once a primary school in the village but that has since been closed down and the building used as an Environmental Education Centre to teach children from many schools about the countryside.

Although the village has a much longer history, the oldest buildings which now remain date back only as far as the late of the 18th century. The church of Saint John was built in 1876 and became the parish church in 1877.<ref name="southwellchurches" /> The half-timbered Almshouses near the church were built by Walter Owen Hickson c. 1890.<ref>{{cite book | last=Pevsner | first=Nikolaus | authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner | year=1979 | title=The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire | location=Harmondsworth, Middlesex | publisher=Penguin }}</ref> Perhaps the most striking buildings are the "Redbrick" buildings, dating from the 1950s which are found clustered around the village green. These, like many of the older dwellings, were used exclusively for workers at Thoresby Hall when they were first built. Roman coins were found in the village in the 2000s.<ref name="perlethorpe">{{cite web|url=http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/view/imageview.php?imageID=00144B7B9FB01658 |accessdate=10 June 2008 |author=Portable Antiquities Scheme |title=Perlethorpe cum Budby, Nottinghamshire, England: Post medieval trader's token, Derby. |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045629/http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/view/imageview.php?imageID=00144B7B9FB01658 |archivedate=28 September 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref> The parish records date from 1529, some 10 years before it became law for them to be kept, making them some of the oldest in the country.{{citation needed|date=June 2008}}

Perlethorpe was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Edwinstowe,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7728|title=History of Perlethorpe, in Newark and Sherwood and Nottinghamshire|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=22 March 2023}}</ref> from 1866 Perlethorpe was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 October 1899 the parish was abolished to form Perlethorpe cum Budby.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10269295|title=Relationships and changes Perlethorpe Ch/CP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=22 March 2023}}</ref>

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Category:Villages in Nottinghamshire Category:Former civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Category:Newark and Sherwood