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OS grid reference
  
SK771923

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Police
  
Nottinghamshire

Shire county
  
Nottinghamshire

District
  
Bassetlaw

UK parliament constituency
  
Bassetlaw

Region
  
East Midlands

Country
  
England

Post town
  
DONCASTER

Fire
  
Nottinghamshire

Postcode district
  
DN10

Dialling code
  
01427

Population
  
1,022 (2011)

Walkeringham

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Walkeringham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 908, increasing to 1,022 at the 2011 census. > The parish church of St Mary Magdalen is 13th century. It has one public house: The Fox and Hounds.

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Southmoor lodge, employs 29 local people to care for 40 older peoples. It also has a former station house (now a private residence) and a level crossing across Station Road. The end of Station Road is cut off by the River Trent. Walkeringham's housing was extended in the mid-1960s to accommodate the workers of West Burton Power Station. The village also has a small school, which has recently been extended with a new hall (2010).

North notts lions at the walkeringham church fayre


Toponomy

The place-name Walkeringham seems to contain an Old English personal name Walhhere, + -ingas (Old English) meaning the people of . . . ; the people called after . . . , + hām (Old English) a village, a village community, a manor, an estate, a homestead., etc, so possibly ‘village of the people of a man called Walhhere.

Walkeringham appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as Wacheringeham and as Wacheringham.

References

Walkeringham Wikipedia