Clayton, South Yorkshire
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  Clayton |
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| OS grid reference | SE452078 |
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| Civil parish | Clayton and Frickley |
| Metropolitan borough | Doncaster |
| Metropolitan county | South Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DONCASTER |
| Postcode district | DN5 |
| Dialling code | 01977 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Coordinates: 53°33′54″N 1°19′01″W / 53.565°N 1.317°W
Clayton is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with West Yorkshire. It lies to the north of Thurnscoe at an elevation of around 80 metres above sea level.
Together with Frickley, it makes up the civil parish of Clayton with Frickley, which has a population of 208.[1]
Places of interest
Frickley All Saints Church is situated about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the main village in the middle of a field, with no obvious access.[2] The reason for this unusual site stems back to plague times, when Frickley village was effectively burnt to the ground and re-sited on the top of the hill following a plague epidemic. The only proof that the village was ever anywhere else is the oddly sited church. Being the only stone building of the time, it was left where it was, and survives to this day as an active place of worship in the Parish of Bilham.
The church has some interesting 18th-19th century graves including that for someone "cruelly murdered on the highway between Clayton and Frickley". The church is a small ancient structure, with a tower, in the interior are some cylindrical columns, and between the nave and chancel is a handsome Norman arch.[3]
Frickley Colliery (actually located in the nearby mining town of South Elmsall) was the starting point of the mining strikes of the 1980s. The colliery was closed in 1993, and all that remains now is a grass hill clearly visible from the village as you look towards South Elmsall, which has been landscaped into the large Frickley Country Park.
References
- ↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Doncaster Retrieved 2009-08-27
- ↑ Heritage Inspired
- ↑ From: 'Fremington - Fring', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 263-266. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50972&strquery=frickley. Date accessed: 18 March 2008.
External links
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