Walkeringham is a village and civil parish in

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. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 908, increasing to 1,022 at the 2011 census, and additionally to 1,118 at the 2021 census. The parish church of St Mary Magdalen is 13th century. It has one

public house A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#On-licence, on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the ...

: 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

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across Station Road. The end of Station Road is cut off by the

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. Walkeringham's housing was extended in the mid-1960s to accommodate the workers of

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. The village also has a small school, which has recently been extended with a new hall (2010).

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The place-name Walkeringham seems to contain an

Old English Old English ( or , or ), 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 developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

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

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survey of 1086 as ''Wacheringeham'' and as ''Wacheringham''.National Archives: E 31/2/2/3636

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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyyfPRNstmM Villages in Nottinghamshire Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire Bassetlaw District {{Nottinghamshire, state=expanded

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