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Cudworth
Cudworth shown within South Yorkshire |
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| Population | 11,644 |
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| OS grid reference | SK5198 |
| Metropolitan borough | Barnsley |
| Metropolitan county | South Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BARNSLEY |
| Postcode district | S72 |
| Dialling code | 01226 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | Barnsley East and Mexborough |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
Cudworth is a semi-rural village on the outskirts of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Cudworth has a busy village centre surrounded by some housing and green belt countryside. It is roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) from Barnsley town centre, via a direct route through Lundwood, and has a population of 11,644.[1]
Cudworth was a constituent part of the parish of Royston; it became part of Monk Bretton parish in 1838 until it finally became a separate Anglican parish in 1892. In 1920, a war memorial was erected in the churchyard to remember all the servicemen and women of Cudworth who died in World War I.
The television presenter Sir Michael Parkinson CBE and the former Barnsley FC, Sheffield Wednesday and England international footballer David Hirst were born there, as was Archibald Stinchcombe who won gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics with the Great Britain national ice hockey team. The Yorkshire and England cricketer, Darren Gough, spent some of his childhood in Cudworth.
Cudworth is the home of the Dorothy Hyman Stadium, named after the local Olympic sprinter who won silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games in the 1960s. She also captained the British women's team. The two main junior football clubs in Cudworth are Dorothy Hyman West End and Cudworth Tykes JFC.
The main street through Cudworth is the main road from Barnsley to Pontefract and was part of the turnpike trust road with tollgates at Cudworth bridge in the west and Shafton Two Gates in the east . There are a range of shops, pubs and take-aways. There has been a small deflection of the through traffic from Cudworth which can now utilise the new Cudworth and West Green bypass that had originally been scheduled for opening in 2011, but was opened by the Mayor of Barnsley in May 2010. Another new feature associated with the new road is a new community fire station operated by South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service situated close to the roundabout at West Green. This roundabout serves as the major junction for the old Pontefract Road, the bypass and Burton Road.
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cudworth,_South_Yorkshire Cudworth, South Yorkshire] at Wikimedia Commons
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