Bole is a village and

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in the Bassetlaw district of

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, England. It is close by the

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, on the eastern side of which is

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in Lincolnshire. At one time the village stood – like the neighbouring parish of West Burton – very near to an

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, known as Bole Round. However flooding led to the original course of the River Trent being diverted after 1792. The parish now lies within a landscape largely dominated by the

West Burton power stations The West Burton power stations are a pair of power stations on the River Trent near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. West Burton A is a coal-fired power station, which was commissioned in 1966, and West Burton B is a combined cycle gas tur ...

. According to the 2001 census Bole had a population of 140, increasing to 247 at the 2011 Census.

History

The parish church of St Martin was extensively rebuilt in 1865–66 by

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. In former times the village also had shops, public houses and a post office. The original church was mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086. From an early date the vicarage was in the patronage of the

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of Bole, being until 1841 part of the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and chapter of

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. During the early 19th century the manor of Bole or Bolum was held by Lord Wenlock. However, in 1858 the Bole estate was transferred to the use of Lord Middleton, head of the Willoughby family from

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. The old National school was built in 1859 but closed during the early 1950s. It now serves as the village hall. A small

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chapel was also closed during the early 1960s, being sold and converted for residential use. There was a windmill close to the Gainsborough road (). Manor Farm, a

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next to Bole Church, includes earlier portions dating from c1675. A former teenage resident of the village was

Henrietta Stockdale Sister Henrietta, CSM and AA (9 July 1847 – 6 October 1911) was a British nursing pioneer and Anglican religious sister. Through her influence and pressure the first state registration of nurses and midwives in the world was brought about wh ...

, later to become distinguished as a pioneer of

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and nursing registration in South Africa. Her father became vicar of the parish in 1858, establishing the parochial school and also building the old vicarage (now known as Bole House), where the family was finally able to move in 1864. Bole had previously not had a resident priest for more than two hundred years.''Sister Henrietta, Community of St. Michael and All Angels'' (edited by Dowager Lady Loch and Miss Stockdale). London: Longmans, 1914.
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{{authority control Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw District