OWTHORPE, a parish in the southern division of the wapentake of BINGHAM, county of NOTTINGHAM,, 8 miles (S. E. byE.) from Nottingham, containing 138 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, endowed with £1000 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir R. H. Bromley, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Margaret, was built by Colonel Julius Hutchinson, an active parliamentary officer during the great civil war, and for some time governor of Nottingham castle: he died a prisoner at Landown castle, in 1664, and lies interred in the family vault here; a monument having been erected to his memory, among others of the family. The Grantham canal passes through the parish, and the Foss road forms its western boundary.