Village sign of Eakring
Village sign in Nottinghamshire. Photo Judith Jesch

Village sign of Eakring Signpost showing Kirklington, Eakring, Southwell, Upton and Newark

Eakring

Earking, Nottinghamshire

Eakring, in the Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire, comes from the Old Norse elements eik ‘oak’ and hringr ‘ring’ and must have been named after a circle of oak trees.

Ascribed Culture

Collection

Viking Names

Keywords

landscape, Nottinghamshire, place-name

Further information

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References

J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer and F.M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. English Place-Name Society Volume XVII (1940), p. 49.

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