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Lindrick was an ancient district of
England
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. The majority of the district appears to have lain in what is now
South Yorkshire
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In N ...
, but the village of
Carlton-in-Lindrick
Carlton in Lindrick is a village and civil parish about north of Worksop in Nottinghamshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 5,623, including nearby Wallingwells.
Toponyms
"Carlton", a common English place name, deri ...
is in
Nottinghamshire
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.David Hey, ''Medieval South Yorkshire''
The name of the district is derived from the
Old English
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for "raised, straight strip marked by
lime tree
''Tilia'' is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The tree is known as linden for the European species, and basswood for North American species. In Britain and Ireland they ...
s".
Lindrick seems to have reached as far as Lindrick Dale, Laughton Lindrick wood, which lay next to Roche Abbey, and the Lindrick area of Tickhill.