Kiveton Park Rural District

infobox historic subdivision|
Name= Kiveton Park
HQ= South Anston
Status= Rural district
Origin= Rural sanitary district
Start= 1894
End= 1974
Replace= Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham




Arms=
Civic=
Motto= Consilio et Animis (By Wisdom and Courage)
PopulationFirst= 6,659
PopulationFirstYear= 1901
AreaFirst= convert|20070|acre|km2
AreaFirstYear= 1911
PopulationLast= 26,855
PopulationLastYear= 1971
AreaLast= convert|20070|acre|km2
AreaLastYear= 1961
Government= Kiveton Park Rural District Council
Divisions= Civil parishes

Kiveton Park was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the Worksop rural sanitary district which was in the West Riding - the rest going to form Worksop Rural District in Nottinghamshire and Clowne Rural District in Derbyshire. The rural district took its name from the village of Kiveton Park.

The rural district originally comprised 11 civil parishes:
*Dinnington
*Firbeck
*Gildingwells
*Harthill with Woodall
*Letwell
*North and South Anston
*St John's with Throapham
*Thorpe Salvin
*Todwick
*Wales
*Woodsetts

In 1954 the number of parishes was reduced to 10 when Dinnington and St John's with Throapham were merged to from Dinnington St John's. [F A Youngs Jr., "Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England", Vol.II: Northern England, London, 1991]

The district survived until 1974 when it was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972, becoming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire. [cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10136040&c_id=10001043 |title=Kiveton Park RD |accessdate=2008-06-29 |work=Vision of Britain |publisher= |date= ]

Coat of arms

A coat of arms was granted to Kiveton Park Rural District Council by the College of Arms on March 11, 1949. The blazon of the arms,was as follows:
"Quarterly ermine and azure, on a cross Or between in the first quarter a cock and a magpie combatant proper, in the second quarter a hart trippant, in the third quarter a garb of the third and in the fourth quarter an oak tree eradicated also proper fructed gold, a torteau charged with a rose argent barbed and seeded also proper; and for a Crest: on a wreath of the colours, a castle of four towers Or." [Geoffrey Briggs, "Civic and Corporate Heraldry", London, 1971]

The basic pattern of the arms was based on those of the Osborne family of Kiveton: "quarterly ermine and azure overall a cross Or". Thomas Osborne was created Earl of Danby in 1674, Marquess of Carmarthen in 1689 and Duke of Leeds in 1694. [Sir Bernard Burke, "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire", London, 1865] In the first quarter were a cock and magpie (or pynot). This refers to the fact that The Earl of Danby was one of the "immortal seven" who signed the "Invitation to William" at the Cock and Pynot Inn in 1688. The hart stood for Hart Hill Walk. The garb or wheatsheaf and oak tree represented the rural nature of the area. In the centre of the arms was a Yorkshire rose. The crest was intended to depict Thorpe Salvin Hall, some time seat of the Osbornes. [C Wilfrid Scott-Giles, "Civic Heraldry of England and Wales", 2nd edition, London, 1953]

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