It lies along the historic Fosse road on the banks of the River Trent and is 3 miles (4 km) south-west of Newark-on-Trent.

[4] In the same year, partially as a result of Poyntz inviting local people to dismantle Newark's Royalist defences and slight the castle, a plague which had previously been contained in the town ended up killing an estimated 25% of Farndon's population.

In the 19th century, farming, malting, willow growing and basket making were the main source of employment for men and women.

The church, dedicated to St Peter, is a large and lofty edifice, with two side aisles, chancel and tower, in which are 4 bells.

A good organ was put up in the church in 1851...on the Trent side in this parish are several malt kilns, also steam and wind mills.

Today, those worked gravel pits have been transformed into a marina, the river widened and the marshy fields alongside drained.

Seeing the four-year-old boy in deep water, Ronnie swam out to him and pulled him to the landing ste from where he was carried back to his mother.

[12] Describing the finds at Farndon, as "the dream scenario" archaeologist Phil Harding, who is also an expert in shaping stone tools, said "As a flint knapper, you were there with them".

Part of the riverbank is raised and forms a flood bank, either side of which is an interesting selection of cricket bat willows and hybrid balasam poplars.

In the 2005/06 season they won the treble becoming league champions and winning the Willie Hall and Sam Arnold Cups.

This feat had only previously been achieved by league rivals the New Inn and the RHP Sports & Social football team.

By the end of the 1960s, Farndon established a permanent spot for a ground, moving onto a playing field at the back of the Memorial Hall along Marsh Lane, where a pavilion was opened by Nottinghamshire stalwart Frank Woodhead in 1973.