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Hockerton is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire. It is 2 miles from the town of Southwell on the A617 between Newark a

Hockerton

The north lodge and entrance to Winkburn Hall
Hockerton
Location within Nottinghamshire
Population146 (2011 Census)
District
  • Newark and Sherwood
Shire county
  • Nottinghamshire
Region
  • East Midlands
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSouthwell
Postcode districtNG25
PoliceNottinghamshire
FireNottinghamshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
  • Newark
List of places
UK
England
Nottinghamshire
53°6′3.9″N 0°55′49.99″W

nd Mansfield. Fewer than 60 houses are situated around the church, the Spread Eagle pub and village hall. The population at the 2011 Census was 146.[1] The local properties range from the carbon neutral housing of the Hockerton Housing Project to converted barns, 1960s and 1970s housing together with much older houses and a 19th-century Rectory. The parish church of St Nicholas is Norman with an aisleless nave and a 14th-century chancel.[2]

Part of the village contains Hockerton Housing Project. The Hockerton Housing Project is the UK's first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development.

A group of residents formed an Industrial and Provident Society (IPS) called Sustainable Hockerton Limited in 2009. Official Web Page Sustainable Hockerton, also described by everybodys-talking Sustainable Hockerton. Sustainable Hockerton is also known as SHOCK. The Society has installed a wind turbine that generates electricity equal to that used by the village. Any surplus is distributed in the parish to promote sustainable development. By 2012 the Society had made £13,000 for the parish.

The place-name Hockerton seems to contain an Old English word for a hill, hocer, + tun (Old English), an enclosure; a farmstead; a village; an estate.., so 'hill or hump settlement'.[3]


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References


  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  2. Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire (1979), p.144. Harmondsworth, Middx. Penguin.
  3. J. Gover, A. Mawer & F. M. Stenton (eds.), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p.186; A.D.Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p.182; E .Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (Oxford, 1960), p.243


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