Kirklington, Nottinghamshire
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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 (Norse), a general assembly; a church. This may refer to St. Swithun's Church, the parish church located in Kirklington.[4]
Notable people
- John Boddam-Whetham (1843–1918), cricketer and naturalist
See also
References
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External links
- some details of the parish church
- photograph of the railway station
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