Kirklington is a village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the

Newark and Sherwood Newark and Sherwood is a local government district and is the largest district in Nottinghamshire, England. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, by a merger of the municipal borough of Newark with Newark Rural District and Southwell R ...

district of

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

, England. The population as of the 2011 census was 400. Kirklington lies on the

A617 road The A617 road runs through the northern East Midlands, England, between Newark-on-Trent and Chesterfield. Route The route runs south-east to north-west through the northern East Midlands, largely through former coal-mining areas. It runs la ...

between

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(9½ miles to the east) and Mansfield (10 miles to the west). Kirklington once had a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

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 Southwell may refer to: *Southwell (surname) *Southwell, assumed name of Nathaniel Bacon (Jesuit) *Southwell, Dorset, a village *Southwell, Nottinghamshire, a town **Southwell Minster, historic cathedral ***Prebends of Southwell **Southwell Raceco ...

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 settlers in the mid-5th c ...

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

John Boddam-Whetham John Whetham Boddam-Whetham (25 May 1843 – 23 March 1918) was an English naturalist, traveler and first-class cricketer. Cricketer The son of Colonel Alexander Boddam-Whetham and his wife, Maria, Boddam-Whetham was born at Kirklington Hall ...

(1843–1918), cricketer and naturalist

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some details of the parish churchphotograph of the railway station
* Villages in Nottinghamshire Newark and Sherwood {{Nottinghamshire-geo-stub

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