Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WALKERINGHAM

WALKERINGHAM, a parish, with a village, in the district of Gainsborough and county of Nottingham; on the Gainsborough and Doncaster railway, 4 miles NW of Gainsborough. It has a post-office under Gainsborough, and a r. station. Acres, 3,000. Real property, £5,363. Pop., 683. Houses, 151. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £204.* Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church's chancel was recently restored. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £15 a year, and charities £30.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Walkeringham AP/CP       Nottinghamshire AncC
Place: Walkeringham

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