Clayton is a village in the west of the

City of Doncaster The City of Doncaster is a metropolitan borough with city status in the United Kingdom, city status in South Yorkshire, England. It is named after its principal settlement, Doncaster, and includes the surrounding suburbs of Doncaster as well as ...

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, England, on the border with

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. It lies to the north of

Thurnscoe Thurnscoe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Dearne North ward of the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, and along with Goldthorpe and Bolton upon Dearne is part o ...

at an elevation of around 80 metres above

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. Together with Frickley, it makes up the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

of Clayton with Frickley, which at the 2001 census had a population of 208, increasing to 230 at the 2011 Census. The Parish Church of All Saints dates back to the 12th century and is a

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building.

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Villages in Doncaster {{SouthYorkshire-geo-stub

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