Wombwell
Sign in to saveWombwell () 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
- UK place.postcode_district
- S73
- UK place.postcode_area
- S
- UK place.dial_code
- 01226
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Barnsley
- Population
- 15316
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Wombwell in 2005.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01226
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- OS grid reference
- SE399028
- postal code
- S73
- Commons category
- Wombwell
- historic county
- Yorkshire
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Notable people
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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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wombwell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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