Cudworth, South Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°34′42″N 1°24′54″W / 53.5784°N 1.4149°W / 53.5784; -1.4149

Cudworth
Cudworth  Cudworth shown within South Yorkshire
Population	11,644
OS grid reference	SK5198
Metropolitan borough	Barnsley
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BARNSLEY
Postcode district	S72
Dialling code	01226
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Barnsley East and Mexborough
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Cudworth is a semi-rural village on the outskirts of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Cudworth has a busy village centre surrounded by some housing and green belt countryside. It is roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) from Barnsley town centre, via a direct route through Lundwood, and has a population of 11,644.^[1]

Cudworth was a constituent part of the parish of Royston; it became part of Monk Bretton parish in 1838 until it finally became a separate Anglican parish in 1892. In 1920, a war memorial was erected in the churchyard to remember all the servicemen and women of Cudworth who died in World War I.

The television presenter Sir Michael Parkinson CBE and the former Barnsley FC, Sheffield Wednesday and England international footballer David Hirst were born there, as was Archibald Stinchcombe who won gold at the 1936 Winter Olympics with the Great Britain national ice hockey team. The Yorkshire and England cricketer, Darren Gough, spent some of his childhood in Cudworth.

Cudworth is the home of the Dorothy Hyman Stadium, named after the local Olympic sprinter who won silver and bronze medals at the Olympic Games in the 1960s. She also captained the British women's team. The two main junior football clubs in Cudworth are Dorothy Hyman West End and Cudworth Tykes JFC.

The main street through Cudworth is the main road from Barnsley to Pontefract and was part of the turnpike trust road with tollgates at Cudworth bridge in the west and Shafton Two Gates in the east . There are a range of shops, pubs and take-aways. There has been a small deflection of the through traffic from Cudworth which can now utilise the new Cudworth and West Green bypass that had originally been scheduled for opening in 2011, but was opened by the Mayor of Barnsley in May 2010. Another new feature associated with the new road is a new community fire station operated by South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service situated close to the roundabout at West Green. This roundabout serves as the major junction for the old Pontefract Road, the bypass and Burton Road.

References

1. ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Urban Areas : Table KS01 : Usual Resident Population Retrieved 2009-08-26

External links

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