Kirklington

The Library at Southwell would be a good resource.

Graham HOGG has a photograph of St. Swithun's Churchyard on Geo-graph, taken in March, 2016.

• The parish was in the Southwell sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
   
• The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
   

• The Anglican parish church is dedicated to Saint Swithin (spelling variations abound!).
   
• The church was built in the 12th century.
   
• The brick western tower was added in the early 17th century.
   
• The church was thoroughly restored in 1847.
   
• The church chancel was rebuilt in 1873-74.
   
• Richard CROFT has a photograph of St. Swithin's Church on Geo-graph, taken in April, 2006.
   

• The Anglican parish register dates from 1578 for baptisms, 1605 for marriages and 1617 for burials.
   
• The church was in the rural deanery of Southwell.
   

• The parish was in the Southwell sub-district of the Southwell Registration District.
   
• Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
   

This parish, township and village lie 3 miles northwest of Southwell and 8 miles northwest of Newark. The parish covers about 2,000 acres and includes several mineral springs.

The village sits on the north side of the little River Greet. If you are planning a visit:

• By automobile, take the A617 west out of Newark toward Ollerton. Just over a mile past Hockerton you will be driving through Kirklington.
   
• Steven FAREHAM has a photograph of the Watch for Giant Ducks sign in Kirklington on Geo-graph, taken in August, 2014.
   

• Geograph
• Flickr

• We have am extract from White's 1853 Directory relating to this parish.

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Kirklington to another place.

Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Kirklington Mill on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014.

• Kirklington Hall, built in 1779, is just north-east of the village.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of Kirklington Hall, east front on Geo-graph, taken in September, 2020.

• See our Maps page for additional resources.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SK677577 (Lat/Lon: 53.112198, -0.990059), Kirklington which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

The War Memorial is a brass plaque mounted on the churchwall of the parish church.

These are the villagers who died in World War One:

• Private John William BAXTER
• Sergeant Frederick Coulam HANDLEY
• Private Jonas PATTLE
• Private Thomas STUBBINS
• Private G. WRIGHT

• This place was an ancient parish in Nottinghamshire and it became a Civil Parish when those were established.
   
• The parish was in the Southwell division of the ancient Thurgarton Wapentake in the southern division of the county.
   
• You may contact the local Parish Council regarding civic or political matters, but they are NOT funded to help you with family history searches.
   
• Alan MURRAY-RUST has a photograph of the Kirklington village hall on Geo-graph, taken in June, 2014. Stop by when they are open and ask for a copy of the schedule of forth-coming events.
   
• District governance is provided by the Newark and Sherwood District Council.
   

• Bastardy cases would be heard in the Southwell petty session hearings.
   
• In 1780, Winifred ARTHUR left £30 to generate interest which would be given to the poor.
   
• As a result of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act reforms, this parish became part of the Southwell Poor Law Union.
   

Year	Inhabitants
1801	140
1841	280
1861	241
1871	205
1881	220
1891	168
1901	182
1911	218
1921	226
1931	227

• A School was built here in 1840 by Major-General John WHETHAM.
   
• In 1912, the average attendance at the school was 44 children.