Edingley

Edingley is a village in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 390,^[1] increasing to 443 at the 2011 census,^[2] and falling to 401 at the 2021 census.^[3] It is located 3 miles north-west of Southwell.

Edingley
Village and civil parish
Church of St Giles, Edingley
Parish map
Edingley Location within Nottinghamshire
Area	2.74 sq mi (7.1 km2)
Population	401 (2021)
• Density	146/sq mi (56/km2)
OS grid reference	SK 666557
• 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	01623
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Sherwood
Website	www.edingley.org.uk
List of places UK England Nottinghamshire 53.09°N 1.00°W / 53.09; -1.00

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'.^[4]

The parish church of St Giles is Norman, almost completely rebuilt in 1890.^[5] It is a largely agricultural parish with a public house, The Old Reindeer, and a residential home, Edingley Lodge (formerly Highfields). 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.^[6]

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. A recently completed extension has greatly improved its function and amenity, giving two function rooms, indoor W.C.s and a kitchen, which are all universally accessible.

See also

• Listed buildings in Edingley

References

1. "Area: Edingley CP (Parish)"
2. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
3. UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Edingley parish (E04007897)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
4. 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
5. N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England:Nottinghamshire (1979), p.118
6. John Watts:-A history of Edingley

External links

Media related to Edingley at Wikimedia Commons