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. Kirklington lies on the
A617 road between
Newark (9½ miles to the east) and
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
(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
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
personal name, ''Cyrtla'', + ''tun'' (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'Cyrtla's farm or settlement'.
[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]
Notable people
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John Boddam-Whetham (1843–1918), cricketer and naturalist
See also
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St Swithun's Church, Kirklington
St Swithin's Church, Kirklington, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, borderi ...
References
External links
some details of the parish churchphotograph of the railway station
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Villages in Nottinghamshire
Newark and Sherwood
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