Kirklington, Nottinghamshire

Kirklington
Village and civil parish
Eastern end of Kirklington Village
Parish map
Kirklington Location within Nottinghamshire
Area	3.1 sq mi (8.0 km2)
Population	388 (2021)
• Density	125/sq mi (48/km2)
OS grid reference	SK 675572
• London	115 mi (185 km) SSE
District	Newark and Sherwood
Shire county	Nottinghamshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWARK
Postcode district	NG22
Dialling code	01636
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Newark
Website	https://www.kirklingtonparishcouncil.co.uk
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 53°06′41″N 0°59′08″W / 53.11126°N 0.98560°W / 53.11126; -0.98560

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.^[2] 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'.^[3] 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.^[4]