Walkeringham Nottinghamshire Family History Guide
Walkeringham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Nottinghamshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Mary Magdalene
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1605
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- East Stockwith with Walkerwith, Lincolnshire
- Misterton
- Beckingham
- Gringley on the Hill
- Morton, Lincolnshire
- Gainsborough All Saints, Lincolnshire
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
WALKERINGHAM (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Gainsborough, North-Clay division of the wapentake of Bassetlaw, N. division of the county of Nottingham, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Gainsborough; containing 536 inhabitants.
It is bounded on the east by the river Trent, and comprises 2861a. 3r. 3p.: the village consists of a long line of detached and irregularly-built dwellings. There is a ferry across the Trent; and the Chesterfield canal passes through the parish.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £7. 11. 4.; net income, £204; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1802; the glebe comprises 158 acres. The church is a spacious, ancient structure; in the churchyard are the base and part of the shaft of an old cross.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Robert Woodhouse, in the year 1719, bequeathed a rent-charge of £15 for teaching children.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Nottinghamshire
- Civil Registration District: Gainsborough
- Probate Court: Pre-1800 – Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York, Post-1799 – Court of the Manor of Gringley-on-the-Hill or Bawtry
- Diocese: Lincoln
- Rural Deanery: Retford
- Poor Law Union: Gainsborough
- Hundred: Bassetlaw
- Province: York