Kirklington, Nottinghamshire

Village and civil parish in England
  • Newark and Sherwood
Shire county
  • Nottinghamshire
Region
  • East Midlands
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townNEWARKPostcode districtNG22Dialling code01636PoliceNottinghamshireFireNottinghamshireAmbulanceEast Midlands UK Parliament
  • Newark
Websitehttps://www.kirklingtonparishcouncil.co.uk
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UK
England
Nottinghamshire
53°06′41″N 0°59′08″W / 53.11126°N 0.98560°W / 53.11126; -0.98560
Village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England

Kirklington is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population as of the 2011 census was 400,[1] falling to 388 at the 2021 census.[2] Kirklington lies on the A617 road between Newark (9½ miles to the east) and Mansfield (10 miles to the west).

Kirklington once had a railway station on the Mansfield-Southwell line; it was closed to passenger traffic in 1929 and goods trains in 1964. The former trackbed is now the Southwell Trail footpath.

The place-name Kirklington seems to contain an Old English personal name, Cyrtla, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'Cyrtla's farm or settlement'.[3] It might instead stem from Kirk-, an element found in a number of place names in the United Kingdom, deriving from kirk (Scottish), a general assembly; a church. This may refer to St. Swithun's Church, the parish church located in Kirklington.[4]

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References

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistiucs. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  2. ^ UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Kirklington parish (E04007919)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  3. ^ J. Gover, A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p.170; A.D.Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p.209
  4. ^ "Kirk | Etymology, origin and meaning of kirk by etymonline".

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