Moorends
Sign in to saveMoorends is a village in the north-east of the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, situated on the border with East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is part of the civil parish of Thorne, which lies to the south.
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- Locality
- Doncaster
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Thorne
- Population
- 5500
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Dialing code
- 01405
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- Moorends
- OS grid reference
- SE694152
- postal code
- DN8
- historic county
- Yorkshire
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Moorends is a village in the north-east of the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, situated on the border with East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is part of the civil parish of Thorne, which lies to the south.
Moorends is located on the edge of Thorne Moors, part of the Humberhead Levels, at an elevation of around above sea level. The moors can be accessed via Grange Road. The village grew up with housing being built to house the miners working in Thorne Colliery, which was developed in the village. Before the coal mine was sunk, the area was largely farmland with only a handful of houses. A missionary church was provided by the owners of the coal mine during the colliery's development (, however, a permanent church, St Wilfrith's, was built in 1934, and this became its own parish in 1956.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moorends” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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