Edingley

Edingley
Edingley
 Edingley shown within Nottinghamshire
Population 443 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK666557
DistrictNewark and Sherwood
Shire countyNottinghamshire
RegionEast Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town NEWARK
Postcode district NG22
Police Nottinghamshire
Fire Nottinghamshire
Ambulance East Midlands
EU Parliament East Midlands
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Coordinates: 53°05′N 1°00′W / 53.09°N 1.00°W / 53.09; -1.00

Edingley is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 390,[1] increasing to 443 at the 2011 Census.[2] It is located 3 miles north-west of Southwell.

The name Edingley contains the Old English personal name, Eddi, + lēah (Old English), a forest, wood, glade, clearing; (later) a pasture, meadow.'...so 'Eddi's wood/clearing'.[3]

The parish church of St Giles is Norman, almost completely rebuilt in 1890.[4] It is a largely agricultural parish with two local businesses- Highfields→ nursing home and Forrest Feeds. Its allotments are historic and the plot originally held the poor house and is the same plot as in the enclosure act of 1781 and formally surveyed in 1899.[5]

The village school was built in 1911–12 and closed in the 1960s. The private Edgehill school took over the building and extended northwards with a series of temporary buildings. This closed in 1996. The same building, known as the Old Schoolroom, is now the village community hall.

References

  1. ↑ "Area: Edingley CP (Parish)"
  2. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  3. ↑ J. Gover, A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p.160; A.D.Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p.125; E .Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p.160
  4. ↑ N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire (1979), p.118
  5. ↑ John Watts:-A history of Edingley

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