Dore
| Dore | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Dore, Derbyshire | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK311812 |
| Location: | 53°19’37"N, 1°32’25"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 5,496 |
| Post town: | Sheffield |
| Postcode: | S17 |
| Dialling code: | 0114 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Sheffield |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Sheffield Hallam |
Dore is a large village in Derbyshire that forms a suburb of Sheffield in neighbouring Yorkshire. The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf which gave Sheffield its name. Dore is served by Dore and Totley railway station on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester. The railway tunnel between Dore and Totley under a limb of the Pennines to Hathersage in Derbyshire is second only to the Severn Tunnel in length. They are the longest main line railway tunnels anywhere in Great Britain - the London Underground and Channel Tunnel to France excepted, of course.
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Name
The name Dore is most likely to derive from one of two possible origins. It could be the same Old English root as door, signifying a 'gateway' or pass between two kingdoms.[1] Alternatively, it could be associated with the Old Welsh 'dwr' for ‘water’.[2]
A derivation from ‘water’ would refer to the streams that meet at Dore: the Limb Brook, River Sheaf, and Meers Brook marked the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Deira (later Northumbria) and Mercia.[3]
History
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contains the earliest written record of Dore, recording that in 827 (or more likely 829) King Egbert of Wessex led his army to the village to receive the submission of King Eanred of Northumbria, thereby establishing his overlordship over the whole of Anglo-Saxon Britain:
This year was the moon eclipsed, on mid-winter's mass-night; and King Egbert, in the course of the same year, conquered the Mercian kingdom, and all that is south of the Humber, being the eighth king who was sovereign of all the British dominions. Ælle, king of the South-Saxons, was the first who possessed so large a territory; the second was Ceawlin, king of the West-Saxons: the third was Ethelbert, King of Kent; the fourth was Rædwald, king of the East-Angles; the fifth was Edwin, king of the Northumbrians; the sixth was Oswald, who succeeded him; the seventh was Oswy, the brother of Oswald; the eighth was Egbert, king of the West-Saxons. This same Egbert led an army against the Northumbrians as far as Dore, where they met him, and offered terms of obedience and subjection, on the acceptance of which they returned home.[4]
A plaque commemorating the event was erected on the village green in 1968 by the Dore Village Society.
A paper mill was built on Avenue Farm in the 17th century, Joshua Tyzack converted the building into a scythe forge in 1839. In 1881 he built a large house next to the forge as a country retreat: his initials can be seen above the front door.
The Old School was built in 1821 on the site of a previous school, on the right hand side was the teacher's accommodation. When Dore's new school was opened, the Old School was restored and opened as a community centre.
Dore remained a small village, having a population of just 500 in the 19th century, until it was swallowed within Sheffield’s civic boundaries in 1934, after which its fields began to be built upon in earnest.
About the village
Christ Church, the Church of England parsh church, was built in 1828. Dore became a separate parish in 1844.[5] The church is a Grade II listed building.[6]
Brinkburn Grange
Brinkburn Grange was built in 1883 by Thomas B. Matthews. The land was part of Bradway Mill and Matthews was director of Turton Brothers & Matthews, a Sheffield steel, file and spring makers. The mill dam was then used as an ornamental lake. The Grange was demolished in 1938.
Sheffield Clarion Club House
Dore Moor was the site chosen for the Sheffield Clarion Club House, often known as the Dore Moor Clarion Club House. This was an independent socialist social centre which continued operating until 1967, by which time the club house was more or less defunct.
Railway
The village is served by Dore and Totley railway station on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly, via New Mills Central.
The railway tunnel between Dore and Totley, under a limb of the Pennines to Grindleford in Derbyshire, is the longest main line railway tunnel in Britain after the Severn Tunnel.
Sport
- Cricket: Abbeydale Park, a former county cricket ground for both Derbyshire and Yorkshire, lies just north of the village
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Vickers, J. Edward MBE (1999). Dore. In Old Sheffield Town. An Historical Miscellany (2nd ed.), pp64–71. Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press Limited. ISBN 1-874718-44-X
- ↑ Brelsford, V. (1953). A History of Dore and Totley, pp1-2.
- ↑ Addy, Sidney Oldall (1888). "The Geographical or Ethnological Position of Sheffield". A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield. Including a Selection of Local Names, and Some Notices of Folk-Lore, Games, and Customs. London: Trubner & Co. for the English Dialect Society. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_glossary_of_words_used_in_the_neighbourhood_of_Sheffield/The_Geographical_or_Ethnological_Position_of_Sheffield.
- ↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Laud Chronicle (827)
- ↑ "A Brief History of Dore". https://dorevillage.co.uk/pages/a-brief-history-of-dore.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1247077: Christ Church (Grade II listing)
