Thurcroft
Sign in to saveThurcroft is a village and civil parish situated south-east of Rotherham in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. From 1902 to 1991, it was a mining community. It has a population of 5,296, increasing to 6,900 at the 2011 Census.
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Place details
- Locality
- Rotherham
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.map_type
- South Yorkshire
- UK place.official_name
- Thurcroft
- UK place.civil_parish
- Thurcroft
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Rotherham
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- South Yorkshire
- UK place.population
- 6,900
- UK place.population_ref
- (Including Morthen. 2011)
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Rother Valley
- UK place.post_town
- ROTHERHAM
- UK place.postcode_district
- S66
- UK place.postcode_area
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +6900
- Image
- Church Amongst Houses - SS Simon and Jude parish church, Thurcroft - geograph.org.uk - 183805.jpg
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Thurcroft is a village and civil parish situated south-east of Rotherham in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. From 1902 to 1991, it was a mining community. It has a population of 5,296, increasing to 6,900 at the 2011 Census.
==History== The name Thurcroft has Norse (Viking) roots as 'thorr' means thunder in old Norse, so is probably at least a thousand years old. According to A. D. Mills in his Dictionary of English Place-Names, the first mention of Thurcroft is in 1319. Thurscroft: 'Enclosure of a man called Thorir. Old Scandinavian person's name + Old English word Croft.