Cawthorne
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Cawthorne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The village was once a centre of the iron and coal mining industry; today it is part of an affluent commuter belt west of Barnsley. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,108, increasing to 1,151 at the 2011 Census.
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Place details
- Locality
- Barnsley
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 893
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Cawthorne Village.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The post office in Cawthorne
- UK place.official_name
- Cawthorne
- UK place.population
- 1,151
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 census)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Barnsley
- UK place.civil_parish
- Cawthorne
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- South Yorkshire
- UK place.post_town
- BARNSLEY
- UK place.postcode_district
- S75
- UK place.postcode_area
- S
- UK place.dial_code
- 01226
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE284079
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Penistone and Stocksbridge
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Cawthorne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The village was once a centre of the iron and coal mining industry; today it is part of an affluent commuter belt west of Barnsley. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,108, increasing to 1,151 at the 2011 Census.
The name Cawthorne derives from the Old English caldþorn meaning 'cold thorn'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cawthorne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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