South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

South Kirkby and Moorthorpe is a civil parish in the in , England which is governed locally by South Kirkby and Moorthorpe Town Council.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Locality with 11,300 residents
  • Description: town in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, Wakefield” and “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, West Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moorthorpe railway station and South Elmsall railway station.

Railway station
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serves the village of and town of in , . It lies on the Wakefield Line and the Dearne Valley Line, 18+1⁄4 miles north of Sheffield and is served by Northern Trains.

Railway station
Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.
serves the town of in , . It lies on the Wakefield Line operated by Northern 8+3⁄4 miles northwest of Doncaster and was opened in 1866.

Library
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Elmsall and Hemsworth.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the in , England. lies to the east of . The town had a population in 2001 of 6,107, increasing to 6,519 at the 2011 Census.

Town
is a town and civil parish in , England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census.

Village
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is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in , England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with , it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road, and is less than 2 miles to the south west of . is situated 2½ miles west of South Kirkby and Moorthorpe.

South Kirkby and Moorthorpe

Latitude
53.5924° or 53° 35′ 33″ north
Longitude
-1.3238° or 1° 19′ 26″ west
Population
11,300
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SOK
Open location code
9C5WHMRG+XF
Geo­Names ID
7301467
Wiki­data ID
Q641245
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“South Kirkby and Moorthorpe” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Belarusian: “Саўт-Кірбі-энд-Муртарп”
  • Cebuano: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Chinese: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Dutch: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • French: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • German: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Irish: “Kirkby Theas agus Moorthorpe”
  • Ladin: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Persian: “ساوت کرکبی اند مورتروپ”
  • Polish: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Swedish: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • Turkish: “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”
  • “South Kirkby and Moorthorpe”

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