Meering is a geographically small civil parish

Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...

 in the Newark and Sherwood

Newark and Sherwood

Newark and Sherwood is a local government district of eastern Nottinghamshire, England. The district is predominantly rural, with some large forestry plantations, and the towns of Newark-on-Trent, Southwell and Ollerton....

 district of Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...

, England

England

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. With a population of zero (2001 census), it is grouped with Girton

Girton, Nottinghamshire

Girton is a village in Nottinghamshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 143. It is located 17 miles west of Lincoln.The parish church of St Cecilia is a small aisleless church almost totally rebuilt in 1879...

 to form a parish meeting

Parish meeting

A parish meeting, in England, is a meeting to which all the electors in a civil parish are entitled to attend. In some cases, where a parish or group of parishes has fewer than 200 electors, the parish meeting can take on the role of the parish council itself, with statutory powers, and electing a...

. The parish was originally an extra-parochial area

Extra-parochial area

In the United Kingdom, an extra-parochial area or extra-parochial place was an area considered to be outside any parish. They were therefore exempt from payment of any poor or church rate and usually tithe...

, and was once populated, although not in more than single figures since census records began. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10265113

The parish is bound by the Carlton Rack river to the west (which forms the border with Sutton on Trent) and to the east a lagoon and a brook separates it from Girton civil parish.