Place:Adwick le Street, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

:the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia Adwick le Street is now a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The town is situated a few miles to the north west of the town of Doncaster. The Adwick ward of Doncaster MBC had a population of 15,911 at the 2011 UK census. Adwick le Street became an urban district in 1915. From 1894 it had been part of Doncaster Rural District. Historically, Adwick le Street was an ancient parish in the Lower Division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill and part of the Doncaster Registration District. Within the area of the former urban district lies the model village of Woodlands, built for Brodsworth Colliery. The old village is on the B1220 road, and meets the A638 to the south of the village at Adwick Grange. The ancient parish also contained the township of Hampole. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Adwick le Street.

Woodlands

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Woodlands is a model village 3 miles (5 km) north of Doncaster in the adminstrative county of South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Adwick Ward of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough. The colliery village was designed and built in the early 20th century as tied cottages for the miners of the neighbouring Brodsworth Colliery. In an era of model villages such as Saltaire, Port Sunlight and Bournville, Woodlands, with extensive open spaces, many different designs of houses, and overall living conditions superb for their time, possibly represents the height of the model village movement. The village is a conservation area.

Until 1915 Woodlands was a hamlet in the ancient parish of Brodsworth. Once Brodsworth Colliery was established the settlement grew to the point that it was on the borders of the neighbouring parish of Adwick le Street. In 1915 the borders of Brodsworth parish were redrawn and Woodlands was placed in Adwick le Street. Both parishes were part of the Doncaster Rural District until 1974 when Doncaster Metropolitan Borough took over local administrative functions.

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• Doncaster Archives includes archives for the whole of the area now in Doncaster Metropolitan Borough

Address: King Edward Road, Balby, Doncaster, DN4 0NA

Telephone: +44(0)1302 859811

Email: doncaster.archives@doncaster.gov.uk

• British History Online (Victoria County Histories) do not cover the West Riding of Yorkshire
• GENUKI has a page on all three ridings of Yorkshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical parishes in the county. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. The list is based on a gazetteer dated 1835 and there may have been a number of alterations to the parish setup since then. However, it is worthwhile information for the pre civil registration era. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and the submitter is very firm about his copyright. This should not stop anyone from reading the material.
• The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date from more recent data. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time, Yorkshire West Riding, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72.

• Map of the West Riding divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Map of West Riding divisions in 1917 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. In other counties, the map for 1900 has been used, but it is not coming up in Vision of Britain's list.
• Map of West Riding divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time

• The above three maps indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
• Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.
• In March 2018 Ancestry announced that its file entitled "Yorkshire, England: Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1873" has been expanded to include another 94 parishes (across the three ridings) and expected it to be expanded further during the year. The entries are taken from previously printed parish registers.