Walkeringham
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| country = England
| static_image =
| static_image_caption = Church of St Mary Magdalene, Walkeringham
| coordinates = {{coord|53|25|24|N|0|50|37|W|display=inline,title|scale:25000}}
| official_name = Walkeringham
| population = 1,118
| population_ref = (2021)
| shire_district = Bassetlaw
| shire_county = Nottinghamshire
| region = East Midlands
| constituency_westminster = Bassetlaw
| post_town = DONCASTER
| postcode_district = DN10
| postcode_area = DN
| dial_code = 01427
| os_grid_reference = SK 771923
| type = Village and civil parish
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| area_total_sq_mi = 4.74
| london_direction = SSE
| london_distance_mi = 135
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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,[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=798367&c=Walkeringham&d=16&e=15&g=477677&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1207895391160&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 "Area: Walkeringham CP (Parish)"] increasing to 1,022 at the 2011 census,{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11130087&c=Walkeringham&d=16&e=62&g=6456137&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1460889002398&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=17 April 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistice}} and additionally to 1,118 at the 2021 census.{{NOMIS2021|id=E04007846|title=Walkeringham parish|accessdate=24 January 2024}} The parish church of St Mary Magdalen is 13th century.Pevsner, Nikolaus. 1979. The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire. page 362. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin. It has one public house: The Fox and Hounds.
Southmoor lodge, employs 29 local people to care for 40 older people. 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).
Toponymy
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.J. Gover, A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p.41; A. D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p.362; E. Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p.492
Walkeringham appears in the Domesday survey of 1086 as Wacheringeham and as Wacheringham.National Archives: E 31/2/2/3636
See also
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Category:Villages in Nottinghamshire
Category:Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire
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