Owthorpe

Owthorpe is a small village and civil parish in the wolds of the English county of Nottinghamshire.

Location and governance

Owthorpe is adjacent to the parishes of Cropwell Bishop, Stanton on the Wolds, Cotgrave, Kinoulton and Colston Bassett, two miles south-east of Cotgrave and nine miles south-east of Nottingham. It forms part of the borough of Rushcliffe. The Grantham Canal lies to its east, as does the Fosse Way, whose line is followed by the A46 trunk road between Leicester and Lincoln. As of 2006 the borough council recorded a population of 90 for Owthorpe, so that the parish is too small to have a parish council and has a parish meeting instead. (The population was put at 143 in 1853, 131 in 1887 and 110 in 1911.) Historically Owthorpe parish was in the wapentake of Bingham, and from 1894 to 1974 in Bingham Rural District.

Services

There are low-frequency weekday bus services to Cotgrave and Keyworth and term-time school buses to Bingham. The nearest shops and medical and sports services are at Cotgrave. There is self-catering accommodation at Woodview Cottages, Newfields Farm. The Little Retreat, Colston Bassett Lane, provides spa treatments.