Walkeringham


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.
Southmoor lodge, employs 29 local people to care for 40 older peoples. It also has a former station house 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.

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The place-name Walkeringham seems to contain an Old English personal name Walhhere, + -ingas meaning the people of... ; the people called after..., + hām 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.