Walkeringham

Village and civil parish in England
  • Bassetlaw
Shire county
  • Nottinghamshire
Region
  • East Midlands
CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townDONCASTERPostcode districtDN10Dialling code01427PoliceNottinghamshireFireNottinghamshireAmbulanceEast Midlands UK Parliament
  • Bassetlaw
Websitewalkeringham.info
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UK
England
Nottinghamshire
53°25′24″N 0°50′37″W / 53.42333°N 0.84361°W / 53.42333; -0.84361

Walkeringham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 908,[1] increasing to 1,022 at the 2011 census,[2] and additionally to 1,118 at the 2021 census.[3] The parish church of St Mary Magdalen is 13th century.[4] It has one public house: The Fox and Hounds.

Southmoor lodge, employs 29 local people to care for 40 older peoples. It also has a former station house (now a private residence) and a level crossing across Station Road. The end of Station Road is cut off by the River Trent. Walkeringham's housing was extended in the mid-1960s to accommodate the workers of West Burton Power Station. The village also has a small school, which has recently been extended with a new hall (2010).

Toponymy

The place-name Walkeringham seems to contain an Old English personal name Walhhere, + -ingas (Old English) meaning the people of . . . ; the people called after . . . , + hām (Old English) a village, a village community, a manor, an estate, a homestead., etc, so possibly ‘village of the people of a man called Walhhere.[5]

Walkeringham appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as Wacheringeham and as Wacheringham.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Area: Walkeringham CP (Parish)"
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistice. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  3. ^ UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Walkeringham parish (E04007846)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
  4. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire. page 362. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
  5. ^ J. Gover, A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p.41; A. D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p.362; E. Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p.492
  6. ^ National Archives: E 31/2/2/3636

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