Walkerith

Walkerith is a hamlet within the civil parish of East Stockwith, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

[1] 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 252 acres (1 km2) of land.

Trades listed included a boat builder, the licensed victualler of the Ferry Hotel, and four farmers.

[2] 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 253 acres (1 km2), an 1881 population of 87, and a Wesleyan chapel built in 1834.

[3][4][5] Prior to 1866 Walkerwith was, for administrative purposes, a township, afterwards a civil parish.