Walkerith
Walkerith is a hamlet within the civil parish of East Stockwith, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent,  north-west from Gainsborough and  south from East Stockwith. The name 'Walkerith' derives from the Old English for 'landing place of a fuller'. Walkerith is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a small village and township in the Soke of Kirton, with a population of 80 in  of land. Trades listed included a boat builder, the licensed victualler of the Ferry Hotel, and four farmers. In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded the village as a township within the ecclesiastical parish of East Stockwith, with its own ferry across the Trent, an area of , an 1881 population of 87, and a Wesleyan chapel built in 1834. Prior to 1866 Walkerwith was, for administrative purposes, a township, afterwards a civil parish. References

External links

"Walkerith CP/Tn: Census Tables" Walkerwith Census data; Visionofbritain.org.uk 1881–1961; Retrieved 20 April 2012 
"East Stockwith", Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2012

Hamlets in Lincolnshire
West Lindsey District
Former civil parishes in Lincolnshire