Hockerton
| Hockerton | |
| Nottinghamshire | |
|---|---|
 The north lodge and entrance to Winkburn Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK715565 |
| Location: | 53°6’4"N, -0°55’50"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 146 (2011) |
| Post town: | Southwell |
| Postcode: | NG25 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Newark and Sherwood |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Newark |
Hockerton is a village in Nottinghamshire. It is two miles from the county's ecclesiastic capital, Southwell, on the A617 between Newark on Trent and Mansfield. It has fewer than 60 houses, gathered around the church, the Spread Eagle pub and village hall. The population at the 2011 Census was 146.
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 name 'Hockerton' seems to contain an Old English word for a hill, hocer, with the common suffix tun (a farmstead, village or estate), so 'hill or hump village'.[1][2]
Parish church
The parish church, St Nicholas is Norman with an aisleless nave and a 14th-century chancel.[3]
Sustainability projects
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 called Sustainable Hockerton Limited in 2009, 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.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Hockerton) |
References
- ↑ Gover, J. E. B.; Mawer, A. & Stenton, F.M.: 'Place-Names of Nottinghamshire , Part' (English Place-Names Society, 1940), page 186
- ↑ Placenames Mills|p=182}}
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1page 144