Kelham

Pub Food and Setting

The Fox Inn on Main Street is a multi-room pub with a raised restaurant area. Its published menu includes ham hock and cheddar croquettes, scampi, pies and a Cumberland sausage ring. The pub has a beer garden, pool table and darts board, and offers motorhome stopovers with electric hook-up. Morland's Old Speckled Hen is a regular ale alongside two changing guest beers.

Kelham sits on the west bank of the Trent, where the river and its floodplain have shaped the village and its crossings.

Village Events and Walks

Kelham House on Main Street hosts private functions and events, including private dining arranged for event guests.

The Trent Valley Way passes through Kelham parish towards Newark along local public footpaths. OS Explorer Map 271 covers the area.

Gothic Hall and River Crossing

Kelham Hall stands in 42 acres of gardens and lawns. After a fire in 1857, Sir George Gilbert Scott designed the present Gothic Revival building for the Manners-Sutton family; its main construction ran from 1859 to 1861. The hall later became a theological college and acquired its domed chapel. It now operates as an events venue, with selected Experience Kelham dates offering ticketed grounds visits or house-and-grounds visits.

The Grade II Kelham Bridge on Newark Road dates from 1857. Its five segmental brick arches have stone dressings and pedestrian refuges.

Church and Domesday

Kelham appears across five manors in Domesday. St Wilfrid's Church is Grade I listed, with a medieval west tower and a memorial to Robert and Margaret Sutton.

Charles I at Kelham

In May 1646 Charles I arrived in Southwell and placed himself in the hands of the Scottish army. After agreeing to order Newark's surrender, he was taken to Kelham as a prisoner and then north to Newcastle. The episode gives Kelham a direct place in the closing months of the First Civil War.