Walkerith

Walkerith is a hamlet within the civil parish of East Stockwith, in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the east bank of the River Trent, 2.5 mi north-west from Gainsborough and 1.5 mi south from East Stockwith.

The name 'Walkerith' derives from the Old English for 'landing place of a fuller'.

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

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 acre, an 1881 population of 87, and a Wesleyan chapel built in 1834. Prior to 1866 Walkerwith was, for administrative purposes, a township, afterwards a civil parish.