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Dewsbury
Mirfield
Huddersfield
Ossett Horbury
Wentbridge
Stainforth Hatfield
South Kirby
Cudworth
Bentley
Barnsley Thurnscoe
Dodworth
Stocksbridge Chapeltown
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Blaxton
Bradwell
Mosborough
Dronfield
Grindleford Tideswell
Maltby
Killamarsh
Beckingham Barnby Moor
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Staveley
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Tickhill
Aston Hathersage
Haxey
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Epworth
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Mexborough Swinton Rawmarsh Connisborough
Rotherham
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Doncaster
Wombwell
Langsett
Thorne
Askern
Hemsworth
Royston
Penistone Crowden
Whitley
Walton
Flockton
Denby Dale
Holmfirth
Goole
Pontefract
Wakefield
Kirkburton
Honley
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Clowne
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South Yorkshire South Yorkshire tends to be overlooked as a tourist venue, but this is a region of great age and antiquity and, in many places, real beauty, beauty, both natural and man-made. Sheffield claims to be England’s greenest city, and the wild open spaces spaces of the Pennine Pennine moorland moorlandss of the Peak District National Park roll right up to its western boundaries boundaries.. Sheffield’ss prosperity is founded on steel Sheffield’ and, in particular, cutlery, and though there are few ancient buildings in England’s fourthlargest city to explore, there is a wealth of museums and galleries on offer to the visitor. To T o the north of Sheffield is Barnsley, Barnsley, whose prosperity comes from the rich seams of coal that have been exploited in the local area. Meanwhile, to the east lies Rotherham, where iron ore has been mined and smelted since the 12th century. While its wealth is certainly based upon metal, Rotherham is also the home of Rocking Rockingham ham Pottery, Pottery, which was once favoured by royalty. Further east again is the busy riverside town of Doncaster, which was established by the Romans and today has the the air of a pleasant
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market town. However, this was once one of the country’s most important centres of steam locomotive manufacture and it is famous for having built Mallard , which still holds the record for the top speed attained by a steam train. Today, though, Doncaster is best known as the home of the St Leger, Britain’s Britain’s oldest classic horse race, first run in 1776. Elsewhere in the county visitors can discover the delights of Roche Abbey, Abbey, a 12th-century Cistercian house, Conisbrough Castle, which boasts the oldest stone keep in England, and the faded Victorian grandeur of Brodsworth Hall.
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the Little Mesters working cutler; and craftspeople demonstrating traditional Made in Sheffield skills. For For children up to nine years B Weston Park Museum H Graves Art Gallery old, The Melting Shop provides an interactive B Kelham Island Museum H Millennium Galleries experience where they can ‘clock on’ to B Bishop’s House Museum H Site Gallery become a piece of steel – including being B Traditional Heritage Museum rolled and hammered! March 2010 saw the B Turner Museum of Glass E Botanical Gardens opening of the Hawley Gallery, Gallery, an In recent years, Sheffield has reinvented itself. internationally important display of tool making, cutlery manufacture and England’ss fourth-largest city England’ city,, it is still busy silversmithing tools. The Sheffield Industrial with its steel, cutlery, engineering and toolMuseums trust also runs the Abbeydale making industries, but is also a vibrant, Industrial Hamlet on the River Sheaf, an international, multi-cultural city and a world18th-century industrial works in a Grade I class centre for sport, headquarters of the listed building that is a Scheduled Ancient government-backed UK Sports Institute with Monument; and the Shepherd Wheel an impressive impressive array of international venues. venues. Workshop at Whiteley Woods. There are facilities for iceskating, dry skiing Sheffield’ss history is one of many topics Sheffield’ and two indoor climbing centres. It is perhaps covered red at the Western Park Museum, the fastest-growing city in Yorkshire, Yorkshire, thanks to cove a forward-looking programme of new housing which has acquired many of the exhibits and public spaces and a university that continues to draw students in their thousands, many of whom choose to stay on in Sheffield after they’ve finished their studies. It was well placed for the development development of the steel industry, with local iron ore, stone for grinding and plentiful supplies of water rushing down from the Pennines. Thomas Boulsover was a pioneer in the development development of Sheffield plate, and Henry Bessemer, who developed his process for simplifying the process of making steel, set up his works in Sheffield. It is appropriate that the Town Hall, built in Renaissance style in 1897, is crowned with a statue of Vulcan, the Roman Roman god of metal and fire. Notable among the city’s many museums is the Kelham Island Museum, a living museum that tells the story of Sheffield. Visitors can see the mighty River Don Engine in steam – the most powerful working steam engine in Europe; reconstructed workshops;
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Winter Gardens, Sheffield
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Bishops’ House Museum Norton Lees Lane, Sheffield, Yorkshir Yorkshiree S8 9BE Tel: 0114 278 2600 Bishops’ House is the best preserved timber-framed timber-framed house in Sheffield. Sheffield. It was built around 1500 1500 and is tucked tucked away at the top of Meersbrook Park. Bishops’ House typifies the the development of the smaller English domestic house in the 16th and 17th centuries. Inside, the house retains many of its original features and looks just as it would have done in the 17th century, giving a tantalising flavour of Stuart England. The Great Parlour Parlour is restored as a typical dining room and the first floor chamber contains the original bedroom furniture and fittings listed in a 17th-century inventory of contents. Many different families have lived in the house over the years, but the first owners remain a mystery. There is a story that that the house was built for for two brothers, John John and Geoffrey Blythe, who went on to become Bishops, but there is no evidence that Bishops’ House was their home. In 1886, the property passed to the Corporation (now Sheffield City Council) and until 1974 Recreation Department employees lived in the house. In 1976 Bishops’ House was restored and opened as a museum.
previously in the City Museum and Art Gallery.. A long list of things for all the family Gallery to do and see includes animated displays, Egyptian mummies mummies,, a traditional butcher’s butcher’s shop, Snowy the Polar bear and real live ants and bees. Sheffield has several outstanding galleries devoted to the visual arts. The arts. The Millennium Galleries have helped to establish the city as a cultural force in the north of England. A remarkable building of white columns and striking glass arches, it holds four unique galleries of visual arts, craft and design that showcase not only Sheffield’s impressive metalware collection, but also provide space to show the city’s wonderful collection of paintings, drawings and natural history exhibits. One gallery hosts visiting installations from London’s London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and other distinguished collections from throughout the country;
another features the very best of contemporary design and technology, while a third houses the fascinating collection formed for the people of Sheffield in 1875 1875 by the Victorian artist, critic and sage, John Ruskin.. It includes paintings, watercolours Ruskin and drawings, minerals, minerals, plaster casts and architectural details, illuminated manuscripts and books. The Millennium Gallery, Gallery, the Winter Garden and the Peace Gardens form Sheffield’ss Heart of the City Project that has Sheffield’ transformed the centre. Nearby, the Graves Art Gallery, given in the 1930s by a businessman who established the country’s first mail-order firm, displays a wide-ranging collection of British art from the 16th century to the present, along with European paintings and a fine collection of watercolours,, drawings and prints. One of its watercolours major treasures is the Grice Collection of Chinese ivories, ivories, which forms for ms the centrepiece
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Botanical Gardens, Sheffield
of a display display of non-E non-Europea uropean n artefacts. artefacts. Another Anot her gallery of inter interest, est, the Site Gallery, is devoted to photographic and new media exhibitions and events. events. One of the largest contemporary visual art and media centres in the country, the gallery also offers darkroom and digital imaging facilities, as well as photographic and digital courses in the recently created education suite. Sheffield’s most picturesque museum is undoubtedly the Bishop’s House Museum (see page 317), which dates from around 1500 and is the earliest timber-framed house still standing in the city. Many original features survive and the bedchamber and great parlour are furnished furnished in the style style of the home home of a prosperous 17th-century yeoman. There are also displays on Sheffield in Tudor and Stuart times, and changing exhibitions on local history themes. The Traditional Heritage Museum offers a unique collection of displays on life and work in the city between the 1850s and 1950s; it is part of the National Centre for English English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (NATCECT) at a t Sheffield University. Also in the University, in the Department of Engineering Materials, the
Turner Museum of of Glass contains over 300 items of contemporary and art glass from Europe and the United States, along with a unique collection of over 100 drinking glasses. A museum of a very different nature, the Sheffield Bus Museum, was housed for many years in the Tinsley Tram sheds on Sheffield Road, but, renamed as the South Yorkshire Transport T ransport Museum, has been relocated to a new base in Aldwarke just north of Rotherham. The collection includes many types of bus and other transport-related exhibits such as destination blinds, old timetables and models.
One of the city’s city’s most peaceful spots has to be the Botanical Gardens, with collections of shrubs, trees and plantings sheltered in a historic landscape first opened in 1836.
Around Sheffield CROSSPOOL
4 miles W of Sheffield on the the A57 F The Bell Hagg Inn
Intriguingly, it was a fit of pique that led to the Intriguingly, building of The Bell Hagg Inn. Back in the 1830s a certain Dr Hodgson offered the vicar of Stannington (a village across the River Rivel Rivel from Crosspool) a large donation for the church funds. But Hodgson was well known as a gambler and frequenter of pubs, so the vicar vicar declined the generous offer. Incensed by this rebuff, Hodgson bought the land directly opposite the church and built the pub there, a monument to drinking that no one attending
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Divine Service at Stannington church could possibly overlook. It clings to the cliffside, a defiant piece of architecture obviously intended intended to make a statement. Amazingly, Amazingly, the pub survived Dr Hodgson and today it’s owned and run by John and Genine Chidlaw who offer their customers excellent food, well-maintained ales, varied entertainment and comfortable accommodation.
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G u i 9 miles SE of Sheffield on the the A616 d e t o A Renishaw Hall R u This sizeable village gives its name to r a l Renishaw Hall, located about a mile to the E northwest. The beautiful formal Italian n g l a gardens and 300 acres of wooded park are n open to visitors, along with a nature trail and a d Sitwell family museum, an art gallery, a display S O U OUGHTIBRIDGE of Fiori de Henriques sculptures in the T 5 miles NW NW of Sheffield on the the A6102 Georgian stables, and a café. The Hall itself itself is H open to group and connoisseur tours by Y This pleasing village is set on the west bank of O special arrangement arrang ement only. only. the River Don looking across to the tree R K covered slopes of Wharncliffe Wood. Wood. The WALES S H settlement dates back to Saxon times at least, 9 miles SE SE of Sheffield on the the B6059 I R but surprisingly there is no church and no E J Rother Valley Country Park evidence of there ever having been one. A mile or so to the west of Wales the Rother WHARNCLIFFE SIDE Valley Country Park provides excellent 5 miles NW NW of Sheffield on the the A6102 facilities for water sports including sailing, Nestling in the valley below Wharncliffe Crags, windsurfing, canoeing and jet skiing, as well as a cable water ski tow. Visitors can hire Wharncliffe Side is a community community of some equipment or use their own, and training 2,000 people and a popular location for commuters to Sheffield and Stocksbridge. An courses from beginner to instructor level are spor ts. Other old tradition in the village tells of the Dragon available in various water sports. of Wantly antly,, which lurked in the recesses of the attractions include a lakeside golf course, a Craft Centre with craftspeople at work, cycle crags and terrorised the local people until a hire, gift shop, cafeteria – and Playdales, a knight by the name of More did battle with ‘mega play area’ for children under 14. the monster and killed it. A cave up on the crags is still called the Dragon’s Den and local children experience an enjoyable frisson of terror by shouting into its depths. Another ancient tradition in the village is the Whitsuntide walk when Sunday school children process around Wharncliffe Side stopping at various points to sing hymns hymns..
Renishaw Hall
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Rotherham was famous for cannons, their products serving to lethal effect in the 7 miles NE of Sheffield on the A630/A631 American War War of Independence and at the A Church of All Saints A Roche Abbey Battle of Trafalgar. They also built bridges, A Wentworth Woodhouse B Clifton Park Museum among them Southwark Bridge in London and B York & Lancaster Regimental Museum B Magna the bridge at Sunderland. Another famous B South Yorkshire Transport Museum bridge builder was born here in 1901. Sir Donald Coleman Bailey invented the Bailey The town’s town’s most striking building is Bridge, which proved proved to be of great military undoubtedly the Church of of All Saints Saints. With value, especially during World War Two. its soaring crocketed tower, pinnacled The town also had lighter industries. buttresses and battlements, and imposing Rockingham Pottery, produced here in the porch, it is one of the finest examples of late 18th and early 19th century centur y, is now highly Perpendicular architecture in Yorkshire. It prized by collectors. There’s a fine collection dates mainly from the 15th century, although at the Clifton Park Museum , a stately there is evidence of an earlier Saxon church church building whose interior has changed little on the site. since it was built in 1783 for the Rotherham A church here was listed in the Domesday ironmaster, Joshua Walker. The most Book and in 1161 the monks of Rufford breathtaking piece is the spectacular Abbey were granted the right to prospect for and to smelt iron, and to plant an orchard, and Rhinoceros Vase, which stands almost four from that day industry has existed side-by-side feet high. In addition, the museum houses a collection of other Yorkshire Yorkshire pottery, pottery, English with agriculture. glass and silver, and British oil paintings and Seventy-five per cent of the Borough of watercolours.. The grounds around Clifton watercolours Rotherham is actually rural, but it was heavy House form the largest urban park in the industry that put the town on the map. From Borough, which has 10 urban parks the mid-18th century, the Walker Company of altogether, along with three country parks, seven golf courses, 10 swimming pools and a leisure centre. Another museum of interest is the York and Lancaster Regimental Museum in the Central Library.. The regiment had Library strong ties with South Yorkshire, Y orkshire, its recruits recr uits drawn mainly from Barnsley, Sheffield and Rotherham. The Museum tells the story All Saints Church, Rotherham of the Regiment and its A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks
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forebears, the 65th and 84th Regiments of Foot, from 1758 to 1968.The displays include historic uniforms, weapons and equipment, campaign relics and more than 1,000 medals, among them nine Victoria Cross groups. There are also Wentworth Woodhouse sections on local militia, rifle volunteers and territorials. Marquis of Rockingh Rockingham, am, owner of Wentworth Woodhouse, that he could drive Dramatically set within the former through the eye of a needle. One One structure Templeborough steelworks, Magna was the UK’ss first science adventure park. This UK’ which is open (on Sunday afternoons during imaginativee exploration of the power imaginativ power of the the season), is the Wentworth Mausoleum, four natural elements – earth, air, fire and which was built in 1788 in memory of the 2nd water – offers visitors the opportunity of Marquis.. Also north of the town, Aldwarke is Marquis experiencing the full power power of lightning, firing the new location location of the South Yorkshire a water cannon, manoeuvring a real JCB Transport Museum, previously located in digger, getting close to a tornado or blowing Sheffield and known as the Sheffield Bus up a virtual rock face. In the Living Robots Museum (see under Sheffield). Show,, predator robots pursue each other in an Show A little further afield, near the village of epic struggle to survive and breed. In the Maltby,, are the dramatic ruins Maltby r uins of Roche Power Po wer Pavilion, after donning overalls and cap Abbey (English Heritage). The abbey dates for your ‘shift’, you can shed a few pounds by from the 12th century and takes its name from creating electricity on a giant treadmill, test the rocky limestone of the riverside site. site. The your strength in a self-lifting chair, attack a majestic remains of this great abbey stand in a target with a giant catapult and discover how landscape fashioned by Capability Brown in much you would weigh on the planets Mars or the 1770s 1770s as part of the grounds of Sandb Sandbeck eck Jupiter. The site also has a restaurant, cafeteria, Park Park,, home of the Earls of Scarborough. picnic areas and shops. BARNSLEY To T o the northwest of the town, the palatial 10 miles N of Sheffield on the the A61 18th-century mansion Wentworth Woodhouse boasts the longest frontage in A Cannon Hall B Worsborough Mill Museum England, some 600 feet long. The house is not B Elsecar Heritage Centre H Cooper Gallery open to the public, but is clearly visible from The county town of South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, its Park. Also visible are a number of follies Barnsley stands on the River Dearne and and monuments dating from the 1700s. The derived its Victorian prosperity from the rich most curious of these is the Needle’s Needle’s Eye, which consists of a tower with a stone urn on seams of coal hereabouts. It has an appropriately imposing Town Hall although top and is pierced by a carriageway. Legend the building is comparatively recent, says it was built in response to a wager by the A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks
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completed in 1933. Nearby, the Cooper Gallery is a lively centre for the arts, which hosts a varied varied programme of exhibitions throughout the year as well as housing a fine permanent collection. The town’s most impressive museum is actually located a few miles to the west, in the village of Cawthorne. Cannon Hall is a magnificent 18th-century country house set in formal gardens and historic parkland. It offers unique collections of pottery pottery,, furniture, glassware and paintings, along with the Charge Gallery,, which documents the story of the Gallery 13th/18th Royal Hussars. About a mile to the south of Barnsley is the Worsbrough Mill Museum and Country Park . The Grade II listed mill dates from around 1625. A steam mill was added in the 19th century and both have been restored to full working order to form the centrepiece of
an industrial museum. Wholemeal flour, ground at the mills, can be bought here. The mill is set within a beautiful 200-acre country park, whose reservoir attracts a great variety of birds including heron. The grounds also include a Local Nature Reserve with walking, cycling and fishing among the amenities. Another three miles to the southeast, situated in attractive South Yorkshire countryside just off the M1 (J36), the Elsecar Heritage Centre (see panel opposite) is an imaginative science and history centre, fun and educational for all the family, family, which is located in the former ironworks and colliery workshops of the earl Fitzwilliam. Visitors can discover hands-on science in the Power House; nostalgic travel on the Elsecar Steam Railway;; the history of South Yorkshire Railway Yorkshire in the Elsecar People exhibition; and interactive multi-media multi-media in the Newcomen Beam Engine Centre. The centre is also the base for several working craftspeople who make and sell their products here. SILKSTONE
4 miles miles W of Barnsl Barnsley ey off the A628 The travel writer Arthur Mee dubbed Silkstone’ss parish church the Minster of the Silkstone’ Moors, and it is indeed a striking building. Parts of the church date back back to Norman times, but most of it was built during the golden age of English ecclesiastical ecclesiastical architecture, the 15th century. Outside, there are graceful flying buttresses and wonderfully weird gargoyles. Inside, the ancient oak roofs sprout floral bosses on moulded beams, and old box pews and lovely medieval screens all add to the charm. The old stocks just outside The Ring o’ Bells are another sign of the
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antiquity of this former mining village. THURLSTONE
9 miles miles SW SW of Barnsl Barnsley ey off the A628 Thurlstone developed when the first settlers realised that the nearby moors provided extensive grazing for sheep and the lime-free waters of the River Don Don were ideal for the washing of wool. Today Today the village still has some fine examples of the weavers weavers cottages that sprang up during the early 19th century, the best of which can be seen on Tenter Tenter Hill. Here the finished cloth would have been dried
and stretched on tenters – large wooden frames placed outside on the street, which gave the road its name. The village’s most famous son was Nicholas Saunderson, born in 1682, who was blinded by smallpox at the age of two two.. He taught himself to read by passing his fingers over the tombstones in Penistone churchyard – 150 years before the introduction of Braille. Nicholas went on to attend grammar school and rose to become Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
Elsecar Heritage Centre Wath Road, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8HJ Telephone: 01226 740203 e-mail:
[email protected] website: www.Barnsley.gov.uk/leisure The Elsecar Heritage Centre nestles within the beautiful South Yorkshire countryside and dates from the early 1800’s when it was originally owned by the local Earls Fitzwilliam as their main industrial workshops, producing everything needed for their industrial industrial empire. Many of the buildings and facilities have been restored and preserved, with several being used again as workshops for local crafts people. Activities include traditional printers, woodwork shop, jewellery making and flower arranging. As well as a large selection of Craft Workshops, the Centre also has an Antiques Centre, a Bottle Museum, ‘Playmania’ children’s activity centre, the Elsecar Preservation Group Steam Railway Line and the world-famous Newcomen Beam Engine, the only remaining Beam Engine in its original location. Our on-site on-site ‘Brambles Tea-rooms’ can provide light refreshments as well as a full and varied menu of main meals throughout the day. The Heritage Centre also holds regular special events within its multi-purpose exhibition hall all year round, from concerts, antique fairs, championship dog shows, and natural health festivals to Japanese Koi Fish shows.
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15 miles miles NW of of Sheffie Sheffield ld on the A628 Perched 700 feet above sea level, Penistone Penistone forms a gateway to the Peak District National Park, which extends for some 30 miles to the south of the town. town. Penistone’s oldest building is the 15th-century tower of its parish church, which Conisbrough Castle overlooks a graveyard where ancestors of the poet William Wordsworth are buried. Later Conisbrough Castle (English Heritage), centuries added an elegant Dissenters’ Chapel which features prominently in one of the (in the 1600s) and a graceful Cloth Hall in most dramatic scenes in Sir Walter Scott’s the 1700s. novel Ivanhoe . The most impressive medieval building in South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Conisbrough DUNFORD BRIDGE Castle boasts the oldest circular keep in 15 miles miles SW of Barnsl Barnsley ey off the A628 England. Rising some 90 feet and more than The hamlet of Dunford Bridge is only shown 50 feet wide, the keep stands on a man-made hill raised in Saxon times. Six huge buttresses, b uttresses, on very large scale maps, but if you are some six feet thick, support walls that in travelling westwards from Barnsley on the places are 15 feet deep. Visitors can walk A628, after 13 miles or so you will see a sign through the remains of several rooms, rooms, for the Stanhope Arms off to the right. It’s well worth seeking out this grand old inn, built including the first floor chamber where the huge open fireplaces give one a fascinating in the 1800s as a shooting lodge for the insight into the lifestyle of Norman times. Cannon Hall Estate. It stands beside the The castle also offers a visual presentation, a entrance to the Woodhead Woodhead railway tunnel, which runs beneath the moors for more than visitor centre and a tearoom. three miles. When the tunnel opened in 1852 it CADEBY was twice as long as any other in the world. 4 miles miles SW of Donc Doncaste asterr off the A630 A630 There’ss an interesting display of memorabilia There’ erected for the Tunnel Tigers (the men who Listed in the Domesday Book as Catebi, this built it), in the snug of the Stanhope Arms. pleasant little village is surrounded by prime agricultural land. For centuries Cadeby had no CONISBROUGH church of its own; parishioners had to travel 5 miles SW of Doncaster on the A630 some two miles to the parish church in A Castle Sprotbrough. Then in 1856, 1856, the owners of the family,, The town is best known for the 11th-century huge Sprotbrough estate, the Copley family A historic building B museum and heritage C historic site D scenic attraction E flora and fauna F stories and anecdotes G famous people H art and craft I entertainment and sport J walks
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paid for a church to be built in Cadeby. Cadeby. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, the architect of St Pancras Station Station in London, and resembles a medieval estate barn with its steeply pitched roofs and lofty south porch. A century and a half later, Cadeby is again without without a church since Sir George’s attractive building has been declared redundant.
Doncaster A Brodsworth Hall B Doncaster Museum B KOYLI Regimental Museum B Museum of South Yorkshire Life
the history of the town and surrounding area, Doncaster Museum contains several exciting and informative exhibitions on the various aspects aspects of natural history, history, local history and archaeology. archaeology. Housed in the same building is the Regi Regimenta mentall Museum of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry , which reflects the history of this famous local regiment. Whether or not you’re connected with the racing fraternity most people will have heard of the St Leger, the oldest of the five five classic races, which is run over a distance of a mile and three-quarters on a Saturday in September. It was founded by Colonel Barry St Leger in 1776. The first winner was Allabacula, owned by the Marquess of Rockingha Rockingham, m, the most recent (2009) Mastery, ridden by Ted Durcan for the powerful Godolphin stable. Doncaster Racecourse provides a magnet for all horseracing enthusiasts, with top-class racing under both Flat and National Hunt rules. On the northwestern outskirts of the town, Cusworth Hall is home to the Museum of South Yorkshire Life. The Hall is a splendid Georgian mansion built in the 1740s and set in a landscaped park. The interior features varied displays on the social history histor y, industry industr y,
The Romans named their rivers riverside ide settlement beside the River Don Danum, and a wellpreserved stretch of the road they built here can be seen just west of Adwick le Street. The modern town boasts some impressive buildings, notably the Mansion House built in 1748 and designed by James Paine. Paine. The Minster of St George was rebuilt in 1858 by Sir George Gilbert Scott and it’s an outstanding example of Gothic revival revival architecture with its lofty tower tower,, 170 feet high and crowned with pinnacles. The lively shopping centre is enhanced by a stately Corn Exchange building and a market that takes place every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Doncaster was once one of the most important centres for the building of steam engines. Thousands were built here, including both The Flying Scotsman and Mallard . The latter, a streamlined Pacific (4-6-2 wheel arrangement) designed by Sir Nigel Gresley,, holds the record for the Gresley fastest steam engine in the world, achieving a top speed of 125mph in Cusworth July 1938. For For a further fur ther insight into
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Brodsw orth, Nr Doncaster, South Yorkshir Brodsworth, orkshiree DN5 7XJ Tel: 01302 722598 website: www.e www.english-her nglish-heritage.org.uk itage.org.uk One of England’s most complete Victorian country houses, Brodsworth Hall was opened to the public in 1995 following a major programme of restoration and conservation by English Heritage. English Heritage decided to conserve rather than restore the interior, retaining the original furnishings and finishes, so preserving the patina that only time and family use can bring. Hence Brodsworth today is the story of a once brashly opulent house now having grown comfortably old and inviting to all. The gardens complemented the house when laid out in the 1860’s and are now well on their way to being restored to their appearance at the time of their maturity. Beyond the terrace and croquet lawns, bordered by clipped evergreen shrubs, lies the formal flower garden now superbly laid out with spring and summer bedding appropriate to the period. period. Beyond can be found the romantic romantic quarry garden, an enchantment of paths, bridges and vistas, with its newly resorted rock garden and fern dell.
agriculture and transport in the area. Another three miles or so to the northwest of Donca Doncaster ster,, Brodsworth Hall (English Heritage - see panel above) is a remarkable example of a Victorian mansion that has survived with many of its original furnishings and decorations intact. When Charles and Georgiana Thellusson, their six children and 15 servants moved into the new hall in 1863, the house must have seemed the last word in both grandeur and utility. A gasworks in the grounds supplied the lighting and no fewer than eight water closets were distributed around the house, although rather surprisingly, only two bathrooms were installed. More immediately impressive to visitors were the opulent furnishings, paintings, statuary and decoration. The sumptuous reception rooms have now a rather faded grandeur and English Heritage has deliberately left it so, so, preserving the patina of time throughout the house to produce an interior that is both fascinating and evocative. A
vanished way way of life is also brought to life in the huge kitchen and the cluttered servants wing. The Hall stands in 15 acres of beautifully restored Victorian gardens, complete with a summer house in the form of a classical temple, a target range where the family practised its archery, and a pets cemetery where the family dogs - and a prized parrot with the unimaginative name of Polly were buried between 1894 and 1988. There is also a fascinating exhibition illustrating the family’s obsession – yachting.
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8 miles miles N of Donc Doncast aster er off the A19 A Church of St Mary Magdalene
This sizeable village is located close to the borders with North and West Yorkshire and was once busy with farming, mining and quarrying. Nowadays it’s it’s a peaceful place, a
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tranquil base for commuters to Doncaster and Pontefract. Its most impressive building is the ancient parish Church of St of St Mary Magdalene, whose splendid 14th-century west tower is considered by many to be the finest in Yorkshire. Yorkshire. Once there was also a priory here, standing beside the River Went, Went, but now only a fragment of wall remains. remains. However, Howev er, the old water mill has sur vive vived. d.
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G u i 10 miles miles NE NE of Donc Doncaste asterr off the A614 A614 d e t Set along the banks of the River Don, Don, which o R is known here as the Dutch River, Fishlake is u r effectively an island since it is surrounded by a l E rivers and canals and can only be entered by n l crossing a bridge. It’s a charming village with g a n d a striking medieval church famous for its S elaborately carved Nor man doorway, doorway, an O ancient windmill and a welcoming traditional U STAINFORTH T inn. 7 miles miles NE of Donc Doncast aster er off the A18 A18 or A614 A614 H Y B Stainforth and Keady Canal THORNE O 10 miles NE of Doncaster on the A614 R Stainforth was once an important trading K centre and inland port on the River Don. It S This ancient market town on the River Don H also stands on the banks of the Stainforth I has been a port since at least 1500 with ships R and Keadby Canal , which still has a well E sailing from here to York, York, Hull, London and preserved dry dock and a 19th-century Europe. The waterfront was once busy with blacksmith’’s shop. This area of low blacksmith low,, marshy boat-builder’ss yards where vessels of up to 400 boat-builder’ ground was drained by Dutch engineers in the tons were built. In 1802, Thorne gained a 1600s to produce rich, peaty farmland. The second waterfront, on the newly constructed place has retained the air of a quiet backwater, backwater, Stainforth and Keadby Canal, which attracted a little-explored area of narrow lands and most of the water traffic from from the pretty hamlets, the fields drained by slowunpredictable River Don. As late as 1987 there flowing dykes and canals. The rich peat were still boat-building yards at work here, but resources are commercially exploited in part, in that year they finally closed and the area is but also provide a congenial home for a great being carefully developed in a way that will deal of natural wildlife. commemorate the town’s heritage. BRANTON
4½ miles miles E of of Donc Doncaste asterr off the B1396 B1396 E I Brockhole Riding Centre
Canal Junction, Stainforth
Surrounded by agricultural land, Brockholes Farm has been a working farm since 1759 and one where traditional farming skills have been passed down from one generation to the next. Today, at Brockhole Riding Centre, visitors can watch demonstrations of some of those skills, such as those employed by the farrier and
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the shepherd, as well as seeing many animals associated with traditional free-range farming. The riding centre here caters for complete beginners through to experienced riders and, along with professional instructors, has a range of horses and ponies to suit all ages and abilities. (01302 535057/535450).
Today’s Bawtry is an upmarket and exciting town with a new airport at Finningley (see left), very good shopping in select boutiques, and an impressive impressive selection of excellent and stylish restaurants. As befits a place that can trace its traditions and heritage back to its days as a bustling 12th-century port on the River Idle, with strong connections to the FINNINGLEY founding fathers of the United States, States, it has 7 miles SE of Doncaster on the A614 managed to maintain its sense of history and A unique feature of this pleasant village close close distinct character while keeping up with the to the Nottinghamshire border is its five times. A happy mix of stunning buildings, village greens, the main one having a duck small boutiques and sophisticated restaurants, pond complete with weeping willows. it remains the quintessential English town. Finningley is a living village with a well-used Many of the buildings are grand three-storey Village Hall, originally a barn but which later Georgian affairs that help the town maintain served as the village school. Finningley has a a tranquil and restrained appearance. The beautiful Norman church with a list of airport has led to increased investment in the rectors, dating back to 1293, and a post office area and Bawtry is set to see more changes that has been in the same family for five and improvements in goods and services on generations. The year 2004 saw the opening of Robin Hood Airport outside the village, which offer, while maintaining the traditional attractions that make it stand out. utilised the runways from the old RAF base, built just before World War Two. This has led NORTH ANSTON to increased development and investment in 12 miles S of Doncaster on the A57 the area while not disturbing Finningley’s E Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife & Falconry Centre traditional appeal. This village, separated from its neighbour BAWTRY South Anston by the main road, is home to 9 miles SE of Doncaster on the A614 the Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife and Falconry Centre where not only can This pleasant little market town stands close to visitors see exotic butterflies, birds, snakes the Nottinghamshire border and in medieval times it was was customary customary for the Sheriff of South and crocodiles in a tropical jungle setting, but Yorkshire Y orkshire to welcome visiting kings and queens also enjoy outdoor falconry displays and, at the baby farm animal area, bottle-feed lambs here. In the mid-1500s the then Sheriff, Sir Robert Bowes, accompanied by 200 gentlemen (depending on the season). This centre, open all year, also has a nocturnal reptile room, dressed in velvet and 4,000 yeomen on nature trail and children’ children’ss outdoor play area, horseback, greeted Henry VIII and – in the and 2010 saw the opening of a new café and name of Yorkshire – presented him with a purse containing the huge sum of £900 in gold. conservatory and the Jungle gift shop.
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