Place:Kilvington, Nottinghamshire, England

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Kilvington is a hamlet and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England, part of the Newark and Sherwood District. It was enclosed about 1750. It is combined with its neighbouring parish of Alverton to form an area for a parish meeting in place of a parish council employed in larger communities. Population information is included in the civil parish of Staunton, Notts.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Kilvington from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"KILVINGTON, a parish in Newark [registration] district, Notts; on the river Devon, at the boundary with Lincoln[shire], 2¼ miles N by W of Bottesford [railway] station, and 7 S of Newark. It includes the hamlet of Alverton; and its post town is Elton, under Nottingham. Acres: 900. Real property: £639. Population: 77. Houses: 15. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to H.Staunton, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Lincoln. Value: £245. Patron: John Lambert, Esq. The church is ancient, and was recently restored."

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