Hockerton is a village and

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in Nottinghamshire. It is 2 miles from the town of Southwell on the A617 between Newark and Mansfield. Fewer than 60 houses are situated around the church, the ''Spread Eagle'' pub and village hall. The population at the 2011 Census was 146. The local properties range from the carbon neutral housing of the

Hockerton Housing Project The Hockerton Housing Project is a small community of five earth sheltered homes on the outskirts of Hockerton, Nottinghamshire, UK. The houses were designed by ‘green’ architects Professor Brenda Vale and Dr Robert Vale. Low carbon living ...

to converted barns, 1960s and 1970s housing together with much older houses and a 19th-century Rectory. The parish church of St Nicholas is

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with an aisleless

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and a 14th-century

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. Part of the village contains Hockerton Housing Project. The

is the UK's first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development. A group of residents formed an Industrial and Provident Society (IPS) called Sustainable Hockerton Limited in 2009. Official Web Page Sustainable Hockerton, also described by everybodys-talking Sustainable Hockerton. Sustainable Hockerton is also known as SHOCK. The Society has installed a wind turbine that generates electricity equal to that used by the village. Any surplus is distributed in the parish to promote sustainable development. By 2012 the Society had made £13,000 for the parish. The place-name Hockerton seems to contain an

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word for a hill, , + (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'hill or hump settlement'.J. Gover, A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton (eds.), ''Place Names of Nottinghamshire'' (Cambridge, 1940), p.186; A.D.Mills, ''Dictionary of English Place-Names'' (Oxford, 2002), p.182; E .Ekwall, ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'' (Oxford, 1960), p.243

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Newark and Sherwood Villages in Nottinghamshire {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub

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