| Official Name: | Kirklington | ||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||
| Region: | East Midlands | ||||||
| Shire District: | Newark and Sherwood | ||||||
| Shire County: | Nottinghamshire | ||||||
| Postcode Area: | NG | ||||||
| Postcode District: | NG22 | ||||||
| Coordinates: | 53.1113°N -0.9856°W | ||||||
| Population: | 388 | ||||||
| Population Ref: | (2021) | ||||||
| Constituency Westminster: | Newark | ||||||
| Post Town: | NEWARK | ||||||
| Static Image Name: | File:Eastern end of Kirklington Village - geograph.org.uk - 60202.jpg | ||||||
| Type: | Village and civil parish | ||||||
| Static Image Caption: | Eastern end of Kirklington Village | ||||||
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| Static Image 2 Caption: | Parish map | ||||||
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.1 | ||||||
| Os Grid Reference: | SK 675572 | ||||||
| Dial Code: | 01636 | ||||||
| London Distance Mi: | 115 | ||||||
| London Direction: | SSE | ||||||
| Website: | https://www.kirklingtonparishcouncil.co.uk |
Kirklington is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. The population as of the 2011 census was 400,[1] falling to 388 at the 2021 census. Kirklington lies on the A617 road between Newark (9½ miles to the east) and Mansfield (10 miles to the west).
Kirklington once had a railway station 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.
The place-name Kirklington seems to contain an Old English personal name, Cyrtla, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'Cyrtla's farm or settlement'.[2] 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.[3]