There is currently one public house: 'The Muskham Ferry'.
History
The village appears in the Domesday Book as Muscham in the hundred of Lythe.[5][6]
North Muskham was a large ancient parish, which also included the villages of Bathley and Holme. Until about 1575 the River Trent ran further east, but there was then a cataclysmic flood which changed the course of the river.[7] Holme was therefore separated by the river from the rest of the parish. In 1866 Holme and Bathley became separate civil parishes.[8]
Between 1870 and 1872 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales recorded the parish as having 194 houses with a real estate value of £5,161, with a manor belonging to Mr J. T. Edge.
Population
In the 1801 census the parish of North Muskham (then including Bathley and Holme) had a population of 361. In 1861 according to official census records North Muskham had a total of inhabited permanent residences with a total population of 614 residents. In the 1911 census the parish was smaller (without Bathley and Holme), with an area of 1,203 acres and a population of 526 persons, 262 males and 254 females. The 1921 census saw the population drop with a total of 491 persons registered, but during the next decade the population increased very marginally to a total of 509.[9] The 2001 census reports showed that the parish had a population of 943 with around 360 properties,[1] increasing to 985 at the 2011 census,[2] and reducing slightly to 980 at the 2021 census.[3]
^ ab"Civil parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 September 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.