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South Kirkby
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South Kirkby
Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE454107
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town PONTEFRACT
Postcode district WF9
Dialling code 01977
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53°35′31″N1°19′19″W / 53.592°N 1.322°W / 53.592; -1.322

South Kirkby is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England which is governed locally by South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council. The town forms half of the civil parish of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe. The parish has a population of 10,979. [1]

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Town council

The town retains its own town council and is represented on the district council by Wilf Benson (Independent), Michelle Collins (Labour Party) and Steve Tulley (Labour Party).

The South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council motto is 'Friendship, Unity & Progress', and the two settlements have been twinned with Sprockhövel in the Ruhr Valley of Germany since 1981. The establishment of 'Sprockhövel International Friendship Circle' led to the same named organisation in South Kirkby & Moorthorpe. Since that time the Sprockhövel IFK and the South Kirkby & Moorthorpe IFC have organised an annual exchange visit.

History

The town was first mentioned 1086 in the Domesday Book , and South Kirkby retains the site of the original Saxon settlement (Grid ref: SE434104). The foundations and part of the walls of 'All Saints Church' in South Kirkby are from the period. For many centuries, they were both simply farming villages until the start of the Industrial Revolution. Hague Hall was located in South Kirkby before it was demolished in 1910 as a result of mining subsidence. [2] In 1881, with the foundation of the South Kirkby Colliery coal mine, an increase in population caused the villages to be extended until at its largest the two settlements housed almost all of the 3,000 workers employed in the mine. In 1984, the miners' strike included the colliery's workforce but in vain. During the miner’s strike local man David Gareth Jones was killed whilst on picket at Ollerton Colliery. [3] In 1988, South Kirkby Colliery along with many of the other coal mines in the immediate area closed and later cleared for redevelopment. These included South Kirkby-FerrymoorRiddings Drift, Frickley Colliery (Carlton Main), Kinsley Drift (formerly Hemsworth Colliery), and Grimethorpe Colliery.

Sport

The town is home to South Kirkby Colliery football club, who have competed in the FA Cup many times in their history. [4] Another early football club of note in the town were South Kirkby Wednesday, who were early rivals of South Kirkby Colliery and nearby Frickley Colliery.

Transport

South Kirkby is served by two railway stations with a distance of one mile (1.6 km) between them. Moorthorpe railway station is on line between Leeds and Sheffield with services being an hour on weekdays and Saturdays with a two-hourly service on Sundays. South Elmsall railway station is on the line between Doncaster and Leeds with also an hourly service on weekdays and Saturdays with Sunday being every two-hourly. Both stations are served by Northern. The town was also served at one point by Hemsworth and South Kirkby railway station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway but this closed in the 1930s.

Notable residents

Wayne Benn grew up in the town and played professional football for Bradford City.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Wakefield Archived 13 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 12 September 2009
  2. ↑ Kingsley, Nick (1 March 2014). "Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (112) Allott of Hague Hall, South Kirkby" . Retrieved 10 September 2024.
  3. ↑ Thomas, Matt (13 October 2024). "Remembering David Gareth Jones, on the 40th Anniversary of the 1984/85 Miner's Strike". thestoryofsouthelmsall.co.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  4. ↑ Football Club History Database. Retrieved 13 January 2015
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