Kirklington, Nottinghamshire

Kirklington
Kirklington
Village and civil parish
	Eastern end of Kirklington Village
	Parish map
	Kirklington Location within Nottinghamshire
Area	3.1 sq mi (8.0 km2)
Population	388 (2021)
• Density	125/sq mi (48/km2)
OS grid reference	SK 675572
• London	115 mi (185 km) SSE
District	Newark and Sherwood;
Shire county	Nottinghamshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWARK
Postcode district	NG22
Dialling code	01636
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Newark;
Website	https://www.kirklingtonparishcouncil.co.uk
	List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 53°06′41″N 0°59′08″W / 53.11126°N 0.98560°W

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

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistiucs. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
^ UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Kirklington parish (E04007919)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
^ 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
^ "Kirk | Etymology, origin and meaning of kirk by etymonline".