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Scawsby is a suburb of
Listed buildings in the village include 17th century Scawsby Hall and a Tudor cottage.
The A635 Barnsley Road is the main thoroughfare through Scawsby. On Barnsley Road is the local primary school, Scawsby Saltersgate Junior School, with Scawsby Saltersgate Infant School, Scawsby Community Centre, Scawsby Health Centre, and two public houses, Scawsby Mill and The Sun. Rosedale School, Ridgewood School and Stone Hill School are all other schools in Scawsby. It is a short distance down from junction 37 of the A1(M) Doncaster Bypass.
Scawsby is in the BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire television regions. The local radio stations are TX1 Radio, which covers all of Doncaster and Bassetlaw, Sine FM, a community radio station for Doncaster, Hallam FM, a commercial station for South Yorkshire, and BBC Radio Sheffield, the local BBC station.
Scawsby Saltersgate Junior SchoolScawsby Saltersgate Infant SchoolScawsby Health Centre Doncaster Council
{{South Yorkshire, state=collapsed Villages in Doncaster
Doncaster
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, South Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 2 miles north-west of the city centre on the A635 road to Barnsley
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close to its terminus with the A638.
Geography
Sunnyfields,Scawthorpe
Scawthorpe is a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England on the A638 road. It is split between the city council wards of Roman Ridge and Bentley.
History
Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it was in the civil parish
...
, Bentley
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, Cusworth, Marr and Little Canada (clockwise from the north) are neighbouring settlements.
The local parish church in Scawsby is the Church of St Leonard and St Jude on Barnsley Road.
Scawsby is not a 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 ...
in its own right, mostly forming part of Brodsworth parish, which had a population of 2,936 at the 2011 census. Therefore, it has no official boundaries, but is generally considered to be separated from Sunnyfields by the Roman Ridge to the north, and is interwoven with Cusworth to the south.
Listed buildings in the village include 17th century Scawsby Hall and a Tudor cottage.
The A635 Barnsley Road is the main thoroughfare through Scawsby. On Barnsley Road is the local primary school, Scawsby Saltersgate Junior School, with Scawsby Saltersgate Infant School, Scawsby Community Centre, Scawsby Health Centre, and two public houses, Scawsby Mill and The Sun. Rosedale School, Ridgewood School and Stone Hill School are all other schools in Scawsby. It is a short distance down from junction 37 of the A1(M) Doncaster Bypass.
Scawsby is in the BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire television regions. The local radio stations are TX1 Radio, which covers all of Doncaster and Bassetlaw, Sine FM, a community radio station for Doncaster, Hallam FM, a commercial station for South Yorkshire, and BBC Radio Sheffield, the local BBC station. Heart
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, Capital and Greatest Hits Radio networked stations also cover the area.
History
In 2012,BBC News
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reported on Scawsby Fisheries, a fish and chip shop on Rowena Drive which attempted for charity the world fish and chip portion record, with a fry of ''33lb (15kg) of battered cod alongside 64lb (29kg) of chips''.
Scawsby Day College of Education operated here in the village, until it closed in 1976.
In the ''Domesday Book
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'' it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Its head of manor is Brodsworth, a village about 3.5 miles north-west of Scawsby.
References
External links
Scawsby Saltersgate Junior School
{{South Yorkshire, state=collapsed Villages in Doncaster