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| Name | Fenwick |
| Alt names | Fenwick | source: from redirect |
| Type | Village, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 53.636°N 1.1°W |
| Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | South Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) | | Yorkshire, England |
| See also | Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which it was located | | Doncaster Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district of which it was a part until 1974 | | Doncaster (metropolitan borough), South Yorkshire, England | metropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974 |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Fenwick is a small village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with North Yorkshire. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is located at an elevation of around 6 metres above sea level and had a population of 113, increasing slightly to 121 at the 2011 Census. The northern boundary of the parish is marked by the River Went.
Historically, Fenwick was in the ecclesiastical parish of Campsall in the wapentake of Osgoldcross. From 1894 until 1974, Fenwick was located in Doncaster Rural District.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Fenwick. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Campsall provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Fenwick.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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