Wombwell
Wombwell () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield (specifically the area south of Pitt Street, including Broomhill) and Stairfoot (specifically the area south of Aldham Crescent). Added together, these record the town's population at approximately 15,316.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Wombwell
- UK place.static_image_name
- Wombwell in 2005.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- High Street, Wombwell
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SE399028
- UK place.population
- 15,316
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.metropolitan_borough
- Barnsley
- UK place.metropolitan_county
- South Yorkshire
- UK place.region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Barnsley South
- UK place.post_town
- BARNSLEY
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Wombwell () is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield (specifically the area south of Pitt Street, including Broomhill) and Stairfoot (specifically the area south of Aldham Crescent). Added together, these record the town's population at approximately 15,316.
Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, its name may have originally been "Womba's Well", meaning "well in a hollow".