Stainforth, Hatfield
| Stainforth | |
| Yorkshire West Riding | |
|---|---|
 The New Inn and Stainforth and Keadby Canal | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE6411 |
| Location: | 53°35’45"N, 1°1’31"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 6,342 (2001) |
| Post town: | Doncaster |
| Postcode: | DN7 |
| Dialling code: | 01302 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Doncaster |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Doncaster North |
Stainforth is a small town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, immediately north of Hatfield in which parish it anciently lay. It is close to the Lincolnshire border (the Isle of Axholme spreads out to the west, and northeast of Doncaster. Hatfield and Thorne lie close by it. Stainforth had a population of 6,342 in 2001.
Name
The town's name means "Stony ford" from the Old English stanig ford. Its name was recorded as Staneforde in 1428.
There is another village of the same name on the opposite side of Yorkshire; the village of Stainforth on the Ribble, in Craven
History
In 1348, Stainforth received a Royal Charter, entitling it to hold a weekly market on Fridays and an annual ten-day fair. The town briefly thrived as a commercial centre and port and attracted traders from across this part of Yorkshire and from the Isle of Axholme, but the market soon slumped as Bawtry grew in importance.[1]
Stainforth railway station opened on 7 July 1856 and closed on 1 October 1866. The town is now served by Hatfield and Stainforth railway station.
Speedway racing was staged at the greyhound stadium in the town in 1930. The original "professional" promotion failed and a few meetings organised by a riders' co-operative were staged at the venue.
In 1870-72, The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stainforth as follows:
STAINFORTH, a township in Hatfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Don and the Keadby canal, 3½ miles WSW of Thorne. It contains the hamlet and r. station of Sand-Bramwith; has a post-office under Doncaster, a chapel of ease, and three dissenting chapels; and carries on boat-building. Acres, 4,947. Real property, £5,097. Pop, in 1851, 881; in 1861, 751. Houses, 202.[2]
Industry
Stainforth is a mining village, with the Hatfield Main Colliery at its centre. The colliery was open for around 80 years, from when it entered full production in 1921 up to it closing in August 2001. The colliery began reopening in 2006 and resumed full production in January 2008.
Work is also beginning on a new 900 MW coal-fired power station[3] and industrial estate, called Hatfield Power Park. The power station is to be linked by a 40-mile pipeline to Barmston in the East Riding, where carbon dioxide will be stored in porous rock beneath the North Sea as part of a carbon capture and storage scheme.[4][5][6][7]
In the media
The colliery and the surrounding area have been used in a number of television series and films, most notably Dalziel and Pascoe and Brassed Off, and more recently Faith at the Internet Movie Database'.
Outside links
References
- ↑ David Hey, Mediæval South Yorkshire
- ↑ The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
- ↑ http://www.powerfuel.plc.uk/id4.html
- ↑ "Samsung backs £5bn Hatfield carbon-capture project". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-17534481. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
- ↑ "New public exhibitions for Yorkshire carbon dioxide pipe". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18503078. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
- ↑ "Local residents to have their say on CCS project". National Grid. http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Media+Centre/PressReleases/2012/CCS+18.06.12.htm. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
- ↑ "Welcome to the website for the National Grid Yorkshire and Humber carbon capture, transportation and storage (CCS) project.". National Grid. http://www.ccshumber.co.uk/. Retrieved 2012-06-19.