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City of Doncaster

Coordinates: 53°31′21″N 1°07′43″W / 53.52250°N 1.12861°W / 53.52250; -1.12861
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The Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire in Yorkshire and the Humber Region of England.

In addition to the town of Doncaster, the borough covers Mexborough, Conisbrough, Thorne and Finningley, where the former Royal Air Force Vulcan bomber base was converted into a passenger airport, Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, opened in spring 2005.

The borough was created on April 1 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the former county borough of Doncaster along with the urban districts of Adwick le Street, Bentley with Arksey, Conisborough, Mexborough, Tickhill along with Doncaster Rural District and Thorne Rural District, the parish of Finningley from East Retford Rural District and small parts of the parish of Harworth from Worksop Rural District from Nottinghamshire.

Population statistics

DONCASTER POPULATION
WARD POPULATION HOUSEHOLDS
Adwick 16,142 6,220
Armthorpe 16,977 6,495
Askern 11,414 4,293
Balby 14,336 5,514
Bentley Central 12,168 4,665
Bentley North Road 11,606 4,728
Bessacarr 13,652 5,425
Central 11,481 5,144
Conisbrough 14,894 5,837
Edlington & Warmsworth 12,291 4,641
Hatfield 15,048 5,630
Intake 10,994 4,417
Mexborough 15,282 6,281
Richmond 13,471 5,308
Rossington 12,647 4,705
South East 16,880 6,247
Southern Parks 14,439 5,520
Stainforth 15,447 5,825
Thorne 17,057 6,380
Town Field 11,131 4,587
Wheatley 11,497 4,877
Doncaster Total 288,854 112,739

Famous people

Historical

Boole made significant contributions in several areas of mathematics, but was immortalised for two works in 1847 and 1854, in which he represented logical expressions in a mathematical form now known as Boolean algebra. Boole's work was all the more impressive because, with the exception of elementary school and a short time in a commercial school, he was almost completely self-educated.

Boole created the concept of Boolean Algebra whilst strolling on Doncaster Town Fields one lunch time. Boole (originally from Lincoln) was working as an accountant on South Parade in Doncaster.[1]

Crapper was born in Thorne, near Doncaster and is famous for inventing the modern day waterfall flushing toilet. A stained glass window has been installed in St. Lawrence's church in the Doncaster village of Hatfield as a commemoration to this 19th century inventor.

Modern Day

Elected Mayor

It is widely thought that a Political scandal popularly known as Donnygate [citation needed], was a major factor behind the residents of the area voting for the establishment of a directly-elected mayor in 2001. The first mayor, Martin Winter, representing the Labour Party, was elected in 2002 and successfully defended his post in 2005. The council as a whole has been dominated by the Labour Party traditionally, but in the 2004 local elections, they lost overall control of the council (though they retained more councillors than any other single party).

In 2009 the English Democrats won the election for mayor.

Places

Settlements in the borough of Doncaster include:

Adwick-le-Street, Arksey, Armthorpe, Askern, Auckley, Austerfield
Balby, Barnburgh, Barnby Dun, Bawtry, Belle Vue, Bentley, Bessacarr, Blaxton, Braithwaite, Braithwell, Branton, South Yorkshire, Brodsworth, Burghwallis
Cadeby, Campsall, Cantley, Carcroft, Clayton, Clifton, Conisbrough, Cusworth
Denaby, Dunscroft, Dunsville
Edenthorpe, Edlington
Fenwick, Finningley, Fishlake
Hampole, Hatfield, Hatfield Woodhouse, Hayfield, Hexthorpe, Highfields, Hickleton, High Levels, High Melton, Hooton Pagnell Hyde Park
Intake, Kirk Sandall
Lindholme, Loversall
Mexborough, Micklebring, Moorends, Moss
New Rossington, Norton
Rossington
Scawsby, Scawthorpe, Skellow, Sprotbrough, Stainforth, Stainton, South Yorkshire, Sykehouse
Thorne, Tickhill, Toll Bar, Town Moor
Wadworth, Warmsworth, West Bessacarr, Wheatley, Wheatley Hills, Woodlands

Media

Radio stations that can be received in Doncaster are Trax FM, Galaxy Yorkshire, Hallam FM and BBC Radio Sheffield, although both Viking FM and BBC Radio Humberside overlap into this area.

References

  1. ^ University of St Andrews Mac Tutor Profile
  2. ^ BBC Sport information page - as of August 24 2006
  3. ^ Jeremy Clarkson
  4. ^ BBC NEWS | UK | Lesley Garrett: Doncaster's own diva

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