Kiveton Park is a village within the

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, in

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, England.

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a part of the

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, from the

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to 1868, Kiveton was a

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of the parish of Harthill-with-Woodall. It subsequently transferred to the

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which takes its name from the neighbouring village.

Geography

Kiveton Park is located at approximately , at an elevation of around above

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, and is located west of

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, and south-east of both

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, and

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respectively. It lies on the B6059 road (Station Road) and is served by two

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s: Kiveton Bridge and Kiveton Park. The

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lies to the south, while the villages of

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and South Anston are to the north and east. Kiveton Park lays claim to being in Rotherham Borough Council, has a

postcode, a

telephone code, and has the Chesterfield Canal running through it. The village has two railway stations: Kiveton Bridge railway station in the centre of the village; and Kiveton Park railway station.

History

Kiveton House - Front - Thomas Badeslade

Kiveton gets its name from the

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for ''the settlement in the hollow''. In the ''

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'' it is written "Ciuetone", and was under the ownership of William de Warenne. It subsequently transferred to the ''de Keuton'' family, who sold the estate to the heirs of the former

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Sir

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(of the neighbouring hamlet of Wales, died 1567) in 1580. One of his descendants was Thomas Osborne who became the first

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. He arranged the building of a

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in the village,

Kiveton Hall Kiveton Hall is a Grade II listed house in Kiveton Park, Wales, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. History The house was built on the side of a previous house, also named Kiveton Park, that was built between 1698 and 1704 for Thomas O ...

(also spelled Keveton, Keeton or Keton Hall), in 1698. The building was demolished by

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in 1812, with local legend stating that the demolition was the result of a bet with the then

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(subsequently

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). After Kiveton Hall was demolished, Hornby Castle became the main seat of the Dukes of Leeds. The traditional burial place of the Dukes of Leeds was All Hallows Church, Harthill. A Community History Project has been set up to record and encourage an understanding of the history of Kiveton Park and neighbouring Wales, particularly mining heritage. This was based in the Old Colliery Offices.

Economy

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has traditionally been the principal industry of Kiveton, and dates back to the

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. Much of the

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is near to the surface, and as early as 1598, the area was extracting 2,000

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s a year. By the middle of the 19th century, the coal-fields were being served both by

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and by rail, and in 1866, the

Kiveton Park Colliery Kiveton Park Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Kiveton Park, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. History Until 1845, Kiveton was a rural village, where the main work was in agriculture. In that year, a railway line was built ...

was sunk, making it one of the earliest deep mines in the world. As a result of the new

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, the population of Kiveton increased from 300 to 1,400 over a period of ten years. The pit closed in 1994, resulting in the loss of 1,000 jobs. As a consequence, Kiveton is now essentially a commuter base for adjacent towns. Kiveton contains a steelworks at the bottom of Redhill, which was damaged by fire on 27 August 2009. All of the colliery buildings have since been demolished, including the originally protected pit-head baths (built in 1938), with the exception of the 1870s office building with its gothic

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, which still remains. The Kiveton Park and Wales Community Development Trust uses the office building as a base. The trust's aims are to provide services and increase development within the community sector.

Sport

Kiveton's sporting history extends back to 1879, when Kiveton Park Colliery Cricket Club was formed. The club has been a member of the Bassetlaw and District Cricket League since its inception in 1904. The first team did compete in an ECB Premier League competition (the Nottinghamshire Premier League) for the 2011 season after winning the Bassetlaw League a year earlier, but were relegated back after one year. In 1881, Kiveton Park Football Club was formed. The club has played in the FA Cup and FA Vase on numerous occasions. They currently play in the Sheffield County Senior League, having previously been members of the Yorkshire League,

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and the Central Midlands League. The village is the birthplace of

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manager

Herbert Chapman Herbert Chapman (19 January 1878 – 6 January 1934) was an English Association football, football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most influential and successful manage ...

, and his brother Harry, a

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player. At one time the village football club was reputed to have produced more professional footballers than any place its size in England, with the Chapman brothers, Derek Ashton (

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), Bert Morley (

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and England), Sidney Cartwright (

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), Leslie Hoften (

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), Eric Oakton ( Chelsea) and Walter Wigmore (

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) all coming from the village. Patrick Barclay, in his book about Herbert Chapman, wrote: "Kiveton Park could claim to have been a cradle of two revolutions, one industrial and the other sporting, and beyond question it is the birthplace of at least one great man, widely considered the father of football as we have come to know it. " Motorcycle rider James Toseland grew up in Kiveton Park. He was a two times World Superbike Champion in 2004 and 2007.

Radio

Following broadcasts since 2000, on Saturday 27 March 2010 Kiveton gained its own community radio station on a 5-year licence under Redroad FM on 102.4 FM. This licence was extended again by OFCOM in 2015 to 2020.

Notable people

* Harry Chapman -

football player *

Manager * Leslie Hofton -

football player * Bert Morley -

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and

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football player * Eric Oakton - Chelsea football player * Ryan Sampson -

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actor

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* Walter Wigmore -

football player *

James Toseland James Michael Toseland (born 5 October 1980) is an English former motorcycle racer, commentator and vocalist of his own rock band named Toseland. For 2020, he was team-manager of Wepol Racing with riders in World Supersport and Supersport 300,< ...

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motorcycle rider

References

External links

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