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Encyclopedia > Conisborough

Conisbrough (frequently misspelled Conisborough) is a small town located roughly midway between Doncaster and Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is built alongside the River Don at 53°29' North, 1°14' West.


Conisbrough contains what is believed to be the oldest building in South Yorkshire: the probably 8th century Anglo-Saxon St Peter's Church. It also contains one of South Yorkshire's most popular tourist destination: Conisbrough Castle.


The town might be identical with Kaerconan (short Conan), a town fortified by Aurelianus, king of the Britons after his victory over the Saxon forces of Hengist (Historia Regum Britanniae viii, 7). The captive Saxon leader Hengist was hacked to pieces by Eldol outside the town walls. The Town was called Cunungeburc in the time of Geoffrey of Monmouth.


In the mid-1990s, a new tourist attraction, Earth Centre, opened on the nearby site of the former Cadeby Main Colliery. A leisure centre has been built on the site of the former Denaby Main Colliery.


Famous people from Conisbrough include Tony Christie.


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YORKSHIRE MAIN COLLIERY - coal mining (277 words)
Cadeby workings again near Victoria Road playing fields, this time in the Swallow Wood seam.
71s 72s and 76s in the Barnsley seam right up to Cadeby Colliery workings under Conisborough.
72 and 74s in the Barnsley seam under Conisborough approaching the workings of the Silverwood Colliery.
Lewes Priory Yorkshire properties (553 words)
In that year John Vincent, Lewes’s procurator, accounted for a total of £146 14s 7d, of which £76 4s 4d came from Halifax and Heptonstall, of which Lewes Priory was both Rector and Lord of the Manor.
Additional major sums included £14 11s 8d from tithes from miscellaneous Yorkshire parishes, chiefly around the Conisborough area, and £21 from tithes of the former de Warenne demesne lands, granted to the priory by the second earl.
Of 20 Yorkshire parish churches and chapels confirmed to Lewes in the late 11th-early 12th centuries by the earls de Warenne, centred around the earls’ lordships of Conisborough and Wakefield, Lewes priory had lost the advowsons of 13 by 1351.
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