Aslockton

Aslockton is a village and civil parish twelve miles (19. 3 km) east of Nottingham, England and two miles (3. 2 km) east of Bingham on the north bank of the River Smite opposite Whatton in the Vale, and also adjacent to Bingham, Scarrington, Thoroton and Orston. It lies in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The population was recorded as 1, 742 in the 2011 census. ToponomyAppearing as Aslachetone in the Domesday survey of 1086; the place name seems to contain an Old Norse personal name Aslakr + tūn (Old English) meaning an enclosure, a farmstead, a village, an estate, etc. , so "Farm or settlement of a man called Aslakr". There are 19 such place names (a Scandinavian personal name followed by tūn ) in Nottinghamshire, all of them in the Domesday survey, and all apparently ancient villages.

Aslockton is a village and civil parish twelve miles (19. 3 km) east of Nottingham, England and two miles (3. 2 km) east of Bingham on the north bank of the River Smite opposite Whatton in the Vale, and also adjacent to Bingham, Scarrington, Thoroton and Orston. It lies in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The population was recorded as 1, 742 in the 2011 census. ToponomyAppearing as Aslachetone in the Domesday survey of 1086; the place name seems to contain an Old Norse personal name Aslakr + tūn (Old English) meaning an enclosure, a farmstead, a village, an estate, etc. , so "Farm or settlement of a man called Aslakr". There are 19 such place names (a Scandinavian personal name followed by tūn ) in Nottinghamshire, all of them in the Domesday survey, and all apparently ancient villages.