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Crigglestone
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Crigglestone is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded as "Crigeston" (along with neighbouring "Orberie") in the Domesday Book. The civil parish had a population of 9,271 at the 2011 Census. On 29 July 1941, an explosion occurred at the Crigglestone Colliery, killing 21 men. Since the 1970s, the site of the colliery has become an industrial estate on the western side, giving way to residential housing on the eastern side and a public amenity (Betty Eastwood Park) to the south.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wakefield
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.map_type
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.official_name
- Crigglestone
- UK place.population
- 9,271
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Crigglestone
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- City of Wakefield
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- West Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Wakefield
- UK place.post_town
- WAKEFIELD
- UK place.postcode_district
- WF4
- UK place.postcode_area
- WF
- UK place.dial_code
- 01924
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE316164
- UK place.static_image
- File:High Street - Crigglestone - geograph.org.uk - 848649.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- High Street
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Wakefield
- Population
- 9271
- Image
- High Street - Crigglestone - geograph.org.uk - 848649.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01924
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- Crigglestone
- OS grid reference
- SE316164
- historic county
- Yorkshire
- P8168
- Richard Roeper
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Crigglestone is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded as "Crigeston" (along with neighbouring "Orberie") in the Domesday Book. The civil parish had a population of 9,271 at the 2011 Census. On 29 July 1941, an explosion occurred at the Crigglestone Colliery, killing 21 men. Since the 1970s, the site of the colliery has become an industrial estate on the western side, giving way to residential housing on the eastern side and a public amenity (Betty Eastwood Park) to the south.
The name Crigglestone derives from the Primitive Welsh crūg meaning 'hill' and the Old English hylltūn meaning 'settlement on a hill'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crigglestone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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