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Mexborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. [1]

82 relations: A6023 road, Albert E. Fox, Angles, Barnsley East and Mexborough (UK Parliament constituency), Bassetlaw, Brian Blessed, Brickworks, Brigantes, Bring Me the Horizon, Bus station, Cambridge University Press, Ceramic, Champ Car, Coal mining, Cottage hospital, Dan Clarke, Demise, Denaby Main, Dennis Priestley, Domesday Book, Donald Watson, Doncaster, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Doncaster North (UK Parliament constituency), Earthworks (engineering), Economy, Ed Miliband, Elmet, Eric Brook, FA Cup, Formula One, Geoff Salmons, Harold Massingham, Historic counties of England, HVM Racing, Ian Parks, Junction (rail), Keith Barron, Kenneth Haigh, Labour Party (UK), Lionel Smith (footballer), List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, LNER Class U1, Manvers, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, Mexborough Academy, Mexborough engine shed, Mexborough railway station, Mexborough Town F.C., Mike Hawthorn, ..., Montagu Hospital, Mortality rate, Motte-and-bailey castle, National Health Service (England), Norman conquest of England, Old English, Old Norse, Pub, Quarry, River Dearne, River Don Navigation, Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, Roger de Busli, Roman conquest of Britain, Sally Carman, Sarban (author), Saxon (band), Sheffield, Sheffield United F.C., South Yorkshire, South Yorkshire Railway, Stan Laurel, Steve Goulding, Ted Hughes, The Sound of His Horn, The Vegan Society, Trade, Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers, West Riding of Yorkshire, William Hackett (VC), William Hague (boxer), Yorkshire Football League. Expand index (32 more) »

A6023 road

The A6023 road runs from Conisbrough to Rotherham via Mexborough and Denaby Main.

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Albert E. Fox

Albert E. Fox was a UK trade unionist and Labour Representation Committee politician.

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Angles

The Angles (Angli) were one of the main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period.

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Barnsley East and Mexborough (UK Parliament constituency)

Barnsley East and Mexborough was a Parliamentary constituency in South Yorkshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Bassetlaw

Bassetlaw is the northernmost district of Nottinghamshire, England, with a population of 114,143 according to the mid-2014 estimate by the Office for National Statistics.

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Brian Blessed

Brian Blessed (born 9 October 1936) is an English actor, writer, presenter, and comedian.

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Brickworks

A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale.

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Brigantes

The Brigantes were a Celtic tribe who in pre-Roman times controlled the largest section of what would become Northern England.

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Bring Me the Horizon

Bring Me the Horizon, often known by the acronym BMTH, are an English rock band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

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Bus station

A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.

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Champ Car

Champ Car is the general name for a class and specification of American professional top-level open wheel cars used in American open-wheel car racing for many decades, associated primarily with the Indianapolis 500.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Cottage hospital

The original concept of a cottage hospital was a small rural building having several beds.

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Dan Clarke

Daniel "Dan" Clarke (born 4 October 1983) is a British auto racing driver, most recently competing in the Firestone Indy Lights series with Walker Racing, having previously competed in the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport and the Champ Car World Series.

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Demise

Demise, in its original meaning, is an Anglo-Norman legal term (from French démettre, from Latin dimittere, to send away) for the transfer of an estate, especially by lease.

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Denaby Main

Denaby Main is a village situated between Mexborough and Conisbrough in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England.

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Dennis Priestley

Dennis Priestley (born 16 July 1950) is a retired English former professional darts player.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Donald Watson

Donald Watson (2 September 1910 – 16 November 2005) was an English animal rights advocate who coined the word vegan and founded the Vegan Society.

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Doncaster

Doncaster is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England.

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Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England.

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Doncaster North (UK Parliament constituency)

Doncaster North is a constituency in South Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Ed Miliband of the Labour Party.

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Earthworks (engineering)

Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.

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Economy

An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.

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Ed Miliband

Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.

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Elmet

Elmet (Elfed) was an area of what later became the West Riding of Yorkshire, and an independent Brittonic kingdom between about the 5th century and early 7th century.

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Eric Brook

Eric Fred Brook (27 November 1907 – 29 March 1965) was an English footballer who played in the outside left position.

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FA Cup

The FA Cup, known officially as The Football Association Challenge Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football.

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Formula One

Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.

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Geoff Salmons

Geoffrey "Geoff" Salmons (born 14 January 1948) is an English former footballer who played for Chesterfield, Leicester City, Sheffield United and Stoke City as a midfielder.

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Harold Massingham

Harold W. Massingham (25 October 1932 Mexborough—13 March 2011) was an English poet.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.

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HVM Racing

HVM Racing was an auto racing team owned by Keith Wiggins that competed in the IndyCar Series.

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Ian Parks

Ian Parks is a British poet, known for his love poetry.

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Junction (rail)

A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.

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Keith Barron

Keith Barron (8 August 1934 – 15 November 2017) was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017.

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Kenneth Haigh

Kenneth Haigh (25 March 1931 – 4 February 2018) was an English actor.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lionel Smith (footballer)

Lionel Smith (23 August 1920 – 6 November 1980) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as a full back for Arsenal and Watford.

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List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions

The Formula One World Drivers' Championship (WDC) is awarded by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to the most successful Formula One racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on individual Grand Prix results.

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LNER Class U1

The London and North Eastern Railway Class U1 was a solitary Beyer-Garratt locomotive designed for banking coal trains over the Worsborough Bank, a steeply graded line in South Yorkshire and part of the Woodhead Route.

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Manvers

Manvers is a suburb of Wath upon Dearne in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England.

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Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster

The Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire in Yorkshire and the Humber Region of England.

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Mexborough Academy

Mexborough Academy (formerly Mexborough School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England.

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Mexborough engine shed

Mexborough engine shed was an engine shed in Swinton, in South Yorkshire, England.

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Mexborough railway station

Mexborough railway station serves the former mining town of Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England.

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Mexborough Town F.C.

Mexborough Town Football Club was an English association football club based in Mexborough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

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Mike Hawthorn

John Michael Hawthorn (10 April 1929 – 22 January 1959) was a British racing driver.

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Montagu Hospital

Montagu Hospital is in Mexborough, a district of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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National Health Service (England)

The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded national healthcare system for England and one of the four National Health Services for each constituent country of the United Kingdom.

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Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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River Dearne

The River Dearne is a river in South Yorkshire, England.

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River Don Navigation

The River Don Navigation was the result of early efforts to make the River Don in South Yorkshire, England, navigable between Fishlake and Sheffield.

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Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, was an early consumer co-operative, and one of the first to pay a patronage dividend, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement.

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Roger de Busli

Roger de Busli (c. 1038 – c. 1099) was a Norman baron who participated in the conquest of England in 1066.

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Roman conquest of Britain

The Roman conquest of Britain was a gradual process, beginning effectively in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius, whose general Aulus Plautius served as first governor of Roman Britain (Britannia).

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Sally Carman

Sally Carman is an English actress, best known for her roles as Kelly Maguire in Shameless and as Abi Franklin in Coronation Street.

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Sarban (author)

John William Wall (6 November 1910 – 11 April 1989), pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat.

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Saxon (band)

Saxon are an English heavy metal band formed in 1977, in Barnsley.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield United F.C.

Sheffield United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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South Yorkshire Railway

The South Yorkshire Railway was a railway company with lines in the south of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and film director, who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

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Steve Goulding

Steve Goulding (born 1954, South London, England) is an English drummer, who has played as a member of Graham Parker and The Rumour, The Associates, Poi Dog Pondering, The Waco Brothers and The Mekons.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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The Sound of His Horn

The Sound of His Horn is a 1952 dystopian time travel/alternative history novel by the senior British diplomat John William Wall, written under the pseudonym Sarban.

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The Vegan Society

The Vegan Society is a registered charity and the oldest vegan society in the world, founded in the UK in November 1944 by Donald Watson, Elsie "Sally" Shrigley, and 23 others.

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Trade

Trade involves the transfer of goods or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

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Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers

Royal Engineer tunnelling companies were specialist units of the Corps of Royal Engineers within the British Army, formed to dig attacking tunnels under enemy lines during the First World War.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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William Hackett (VC)

William Hackett VC (11 June 1873 – 27 June 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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William Hague (boxer)

James William "Iron" Hague (6 November 1885 – 18 August 1951) was a boxer born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire.

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Yorkshire Football League

The Yorkshire Football League was the name of two football competitions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexborough

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