Hemingfield
| Hemingfield | |
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  Hemingfield Location within South Yorkshire | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BARNSLEY |
| Postcode district | S73 |
| Dialling code | 01226 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Hemingfield is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.[1] The village falls within the Hoyland Milton Ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. The village has two pubs, The Albion and The Elephant & Castle, as well as a post office and The Ellis CofE Primary School. Notable organisations, past and present, include Hemingfield Action Group (HAG)[2] and Albion AFC.
In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Hemingfield:
HEMINGFIELD, a village in Wombwell township, Darfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 4 miles SE of Barnesley. Pop., 346. It has a post office under Barnesley, and a charity school.[3]
Etymology
[edit]Legend has it the village gets its name from a Viking named 'Heming' who settled and established a farmstead. Hence, it was "Heming's field".[4]
Hemingfield Colliery
[edit]Hemingfield Colliery, also known as Elsecar Low Colliery, opened in 1840, and first produced coal in 1848.[5] The colliery is now preserved as a heritage attraction by the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery.
Hemingfield railway station
[edit]The Elsecar Heritage Railway currently terminates at Hemingfield, although there is no platform at present, with trains pausing before reversing back to Elsecar. However, a proposed extension of the railway to Cortonwood is well advanced, and a memorandum of understanding has been signed by the railway company and the friends of the colliery, agreeing that an intermediate station will be constructed at Hemingfield.[6]
A joint development project with the University of Sheffield School of Architecture in autumn 2016 resulted in initial proposals for a station at Hemingfield with the low-level platform connected to the high-level colliery buildings by means of a tall station building incorporating stairs and lifts.[7]
Sport
[edit]The village was represented in the FA Cup by Hemingfield F.C. in the 1920s.
Notable people
[edit]- Fred Butcher, footballer[citation needed]
Transport
[edit]The number 67 Jump Circular bus runs in both directions through the village every hour.[8] Wombwell railway station is the closest rail link to the village.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 110 Sheffield & Huddersfield (Glossop & Holmfirth) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319231876.
- ^ "Hemingfield Action Group - Charity/Voluntary, in Voluntary Action Barnsley". www.HemingfieldActionGroup676.VABarnsley.org.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ "A Vision of Britain Through Time: Hemingfield". www.VisionOfBritain.co.uk. GB Historical GIS/University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ "Heming - Nordic Names Wiki - Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". www.NordicNames.de. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ Notes on Elsecar 1901: The Godfrey Edition Published by Alan Godfrey Maps ISBN 1-84151-529-9
- ^ Memorandum of Understanding outlined here
- ^ Plans may be viewed at this colliery webpage.
- ^ "viewtimetable". www.TravelSouthYorkshire.com. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
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