Kirklington is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Newark and Sherwood Newark and Sherwood is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest district by area in the county. The council is based in Newark-on-Trent, the area's largest town. The district also incl ...

district of

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

, England. The population as of the 2011 census was 400, falling to 388 at the 2021 census. Kirklington lies on the

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

between Newark (9½ miles to the east) and

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city ...

(10 miles to the west). Kirklington once had a

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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. Kirklington Hall The place-name Kirklington seems to contain an

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personal name, ''Cyrtla'', + ''tun'' (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'Cyrtla's farm or settlement'. 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.

Notable people

* John Boddam-Whetham (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 {{authority control Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire

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