Tickhill
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  Map sources for Tickhill at grid reference SK5993
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Tickhill is a village in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with Nottinghamshire. It lies 8 miles south of Doncaster, between Maltby and Harworth, on the conjunction of the A631 and A60 roads, and adjacent to the A1(M) motorway. It is located at 53° 26' North, 1° 6' 40" West, at an elevation of around 20 metres above sea level.
Notable buildings in Tickhill include the substantial ruins of Tickhill Castle which contains a private residence leased by the Duchy of Lancaster, St Mary's Church - a large thirteenth century parish church and the buttercross.
The village's history dates from before 1066 when William I of England gave the lands and castle to Roger de Busli. Tickhill was notable enough to be invited to send representatives to Parliament in 1295, but not subsequently, and for the Strafforth and Tickhill wapentake to include its name.
The castle later came into the possession of the Percy family, and in the English Civil War, it was stormed by the roundheads.
Tickhill was one of the wapentakes of the West Riding of Yorkshire, until the region was split between North, West and South Yorkshire in 1974.
The Tickhill Psalter, a medieval manuscript, is currently on display in New York.
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| Metropolitan districts: | City of Sheffield • Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham • Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster • Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley | |
| Cities/Towns: | Adwick le Street • Anston • Armthorpe • Askern • Aughton • Barnsley • Bawtry • Birdwell • Beighton • Bentley • Chapeltown • Conisbrough • Cudworth • Darfield • Darton • Dinnington • Dodworth • Doncaster • Finningley • Great Houghton • Grimethorpe • Harthill • Hatfield • Highlane • Hoyland Nether • Kirk Sandall • Maltby • Mexborough • Moorends • Mosborough • Norton • Oughtibridge • Rawmarsh • Rossington • Rotherham • Royston • Scholes • Sheffield City Centre • Stainforth • Stocksbridge • Swinton • Thorne • Thorpe Hesley • Thurcroft • Thurnscoe • Tickhill • Todwick • Treeton • Wales • Wath upon Dearne • Wharncliffe Side • Wombwell • Woodsetts • Worsbrough See also: List of civil parishes in South Yorkshire |
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