Hemington, Northamptonshire

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52°26′51″N 0°23′25″W / 52.4475°N 0.3903°W / 52.4475; -0.3903

Hemington is a village and civil parish^[1] in North Northamptonshire,^[2] England. The parish population (including the neighbouring small parishes of Luddington-in-the-Brook and Thurning) at the 2011 Census was 257.^[3]

The village's name means 'estate associated with a man called Hemma or Hemmi'. Other sources suggest the specific may be Old English hemming, meaning a border or an enclosure.^[4]

References

^ Streetmap.co.uk: 1:25,000 mapping. Retrieved 12 November 2009
^ East Northamptonshire District Council: East Northamptonshire District Local Plan 1996: Hemington Strategy Statement Archived 13 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine. p232. Retrieved 12 November 2009
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
^ "Key to English Place-names".