At one time the village stood – like the neighbouring parish of West Burton – very near to an oxbow lake, known as Bole Round.

From an early date the vicarage was in the patronage of the prebendary of Bole, being until 1841 part of the Peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean and chapter of York.

[6] However, in 1858 the Bole estate was transferred to the use of Lord Middleton, head of the Willoughby family from Wollaton Hall.

Manor Farm, a listed building next to Bole Church, includes earlier portions dating from c1675.

Her father became vicar of the parish in 1858, establishing the parochial school and also building the old vicarage (now known as Bole House), where the family was finally able to move in 1864.