| Static Image Name: | Walkerith (geograph 2807277).jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Walkerith from the River Trent |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.4274°N -0.8161°W |
| Official Name: | Walkerith |
| Shire County: | Lincolnshire |
| Region: | East Midlands |
| Constituency Westminster: | Gainsborough |
| Post Town: | GAINSBOROUGH |
| Postcode District: | DN21 |
| Postcode Area: | DN |
| Os Grid Reference: | SK787929 |
| London Distance Mi: | 135 |
| London Direction: | S |
Walkerith is a hamlet within the civil parish of East Stockwith, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent, 2.5miles north-west from Gainsborough and 1.5miles south from East Stockwith.
The name 'Walkerith' derives from the Old English for 'landing place of a fuller'.[1]
Walkerith is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a small village and township in the Soke of Kirton, with a population of 80 in 252acres of land. Trades listed included a boat builder, the licensed victualler of the Ferry Hotel, and four farmers.[2]
In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded the village as a township within the ecclesiastical parish of East Stockwith, with its own ferry across the Trent, an area of 253acres, an 1881 population of 87, and a Wesleyan chapel built in 1834.[3] [4] [5] Prior to 1866 Walkerwith was, for administrative purposes, a township, afterwards a civil parish.[6] [7]