Moorends

Village in South Yorkshire, England

Village in England

Thorne

Metropolitan borough

Doncaster

Metropolitan county

South Yorkshire

Region

Yorkshire and the Humber

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townDONCASTERPostcode districtDN8Dialling code01405PoliceSouth YorkshireFire South Yorkshire AmbulanceYorkshire UK Parliament

Doncaster North

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53°38′00″N 0°57′00″W / 53.6333°N 0.95°W / 53.6333; -0.95

Moorends is a village in the north-east of the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, situated on the border with East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.^[2] It is part of the civil parish of Thorne, which lies to the south.^[3]

Moorends is located on the edge of Thorne Moors, part of the Humberhead Levels, at an elevation of around 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) above sea level.^[4] The moors can be accessed via Grange Road. The village grew up with housing being built to house the miners working in Thorne Colliery, which was developed in the village.^[1] Before the coal mine was sunk, the area was largely farmland with only a handful of houses.^[5] A missionary church was provided by the owners of the coal mine during the colliery's development (c. 1912, however, a permanent church, St Wilfrith's, was built in 1934, and this became its own parish in 1956.^[6]

The legendary goalkeeper Ted Sagar was born in Moorends in 1910. It is also home to one public house.

References

^ ^a ^b "Thorne & Moorends Neighbourhood Plan" (PDF). dmbcwebstolive01.blob.core.windows.net. p. 5. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ "Thorne & Moorends Neighbourhood Plan" (PDF). dmbcwebstolive01.blob.core.windows.net. p. 4. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Thorne Parish (E04000095)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ "Moorends, Doncaster - area information, map, walks and more". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ Tuffrey, Peter (4 November 2023). "The village that grew up around its mine". The Yorkshire Post. p. 16. ISSN 0963-1496.
^ "Moorends, St Wilfrith's Parish Records - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2023.