Winkburn
village in Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Winkburn is a small village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district, in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located north-west of Southwell and north-west of Newark. Its population count was reported as 103 residents in the 2021 census.
History
The parish church of St John of Jerusalem and Winkburn Hall are both Grade I listed buildings.
1955 air incident
Provost YG502 crashed on Friday 14 October 1955 at Park Springs Wood, which killed instructor 33 year old Sqn Ldr George Herbert Tasney, of Flintham, and pilot 19 year old Alastair Hugh Gavin Low, of Hinderton Road, in Neston in west Cheshire.
Fire engines attended from Newark and Southwell.
“Winkburn” enters the record as village in Nottinghamshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Winkburn, village and Nottinghamshire can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Winkburn” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Winkburn, village and Nottinghamshire provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8025452. Authority coordinates are 53.118, -0.939. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 1955.
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How to read it
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This entry incorporates text from “Winkburn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.