Perlethorpe is a small village in

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

. It is located 3 miles north-west of

Ollerton Ollerton is a town in the Newark and Sherwood District, Nottinghamshire, England, on the edge of Sherwood Forest in the area known as the Dukeries. It forms part of the civil parish of Ollerton and Boughton. OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: ...

, and is in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Perlethorpe cum Budby Perlethorpe cum Budby is a civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, within the county of Nottinghamshire, England. The overall area had a population of 183 at the 2011 census. The parish lies in the north west of the county and distri ...

. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population in 2001 of 198. reducing to 183 at the 2011 Census. Nearby is

Thoresby Hall Thoresby Hall is a grade I listed 19th-century English country house, country house in Budby, Nottinghamshire, some 2 miles (4 km) north of Ollerton. It is one of four neighbouring country houses and estates in the Dukeries in north Notting ...

, the former home of the

Earl Manvers Earl Manvers was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1806 for Charles Medows Pierrepont, 1st Viscount Newark. He had already been created Baron Pierrepont, of Holme Pierrepont in the County of Nottingham, and Viscoun ...

Etymology

Perlethorpe is from

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''thorp''/''þrop'' "village", a place-name element common in

, and nearby

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

. The first element of the name, ''perle'' is unknown, and

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s can only speculate as to its origin. However, there are three particularly popular suggestions. The first is "rush of water" from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

and

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''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'' 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

and 10 miles north east of

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...

. The

River Meden The River Meden is a river in Nottinghamshire, England. Its source lies just north of Huthwaite, near the Derbyshire border, and from there it flows north east through Pleasley and Warsop before merging temporarily with the River Maun near Bo ...

runs nearby. The village contains a large

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, a village hall, a large church (of

Saint John the Evangelist John the Evangelist ( grc-gre, Ἰωάννης, Iōánnēs; Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ; ar, يوحنا الإنجيلي, la, Ioannes, he, יוחנן cop, ⲓⲱⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ or ⲓⲱ̅ⲁ) is the name traditionally given t ...

) and a village shop. 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 middle of the 19th century. The church of Saint John was built in 1876 and became the

parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...

in 1877. The half-timbered

Almshouses An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain ...

near the church were built by

Walter Owen Hickson Walter Owen Hickson (1863 – 8 October 1915) was an architect and surveyor based in Nottingham. History He was born in 1863 in Bottesford, Leicestershire, the son of William Hickson of Easthorpe Manor, Bottesford and Mary Ann Owen. He trained a ...

c. 1890. 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

when they were first built.

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s were found in the village in the 2000s. 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.

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{{authority control Villages in Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood