Austerfield

Austerfield

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude= 53.44
longitude= -1.00
map_type= South Yorkshire
official_name= Austerfield
population =
metropolitan_borough= Doncaster
region= Yorkshire and the Humber
metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire
post_town= DONCASTER
postcode_district = DN10
postcode_area= DN
dial_code= 01302
os_grid_reference=
constituency_westminster= Don Valley

Austerfield is a village in the metropolitan borough of Doncaster (part of South Yorkshire, England), on the border with Nottinghamshire. It lies to the north-east of Bawtry on the A614 road to Finningley, and is located at 53° 26' 30" North, 1° 0' West, at an elevation of around 7 metres above sea level. It is close to the River Idle.

Its name derives from the Germanic 'Ouestraefeld' meaning 'eastern field'.

A council was convened by King Aldfrith of Northumbria at Austerfield in 702,which was then on the boundary between the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, attended by Berhtwald,Archbishop of Canterbury to decide on whether Bishop Wilfrid should become Archbishop of York.Austerfield contains the 11th century church of " St Helena", built in 1080 by John de Builli, where "Pilgrim Father" William Bradford, who was born in Austerfield, was baptised.


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