Bringtons Parish
Council

The Parish covers an area of some 3,000 acres and contains two villages, Great and Little Brington, and the hamlet of Nobottle, home to just 13 houses, one of the smallest hamlets in England. It was once part of a large Anglo-Saxon estate, with a manor house at Nobottle, and land in Brington, Althorp, Harlestone, Glassthorpe and Flore. William the Conqueror gave this estate to his illegitimate son, William Peverel, whose descendants held it for over 400 years, until the first Sir John Spencer acquired it, together with the advowson of St Mary’s Church at the beginning of the 16th century.