Bircotes
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|official_name = Bircotes
|civil_parish = Harworth Bircotes
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|shire_district = Bassetlaw
|shire_county = Nottinghamshire
|region = East Midlands
|constituency_westminster = Bassetlaw
|post_town = Doncaster
|postcode_district = DN11
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Bircotes is an area in the civil parish of Harworth and Bircotes in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the border with South Yorkshire.{{cite map|title=Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 111 Sheffield & Doncaster (Rotherham, Barnsley & Thorne)|ISBN= 9780319229354 |publisher=Ordnance Survey|date=2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html|title=Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer|format=csv (download)|date= 1 January 2016|publisher=Ordnance Survey|website=www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|access-date=30 January 2016}} The population of the civil parish was 7,948. The local school in the area is Serlby Park Academy. Cite Web: https://serlbyparksecondary.org.uk/ |Serlby Park Secondary and Primary| access date 9 May 2025
History and Industrial Revolution
Bircotes was founded in the 1920s, with the discovery of coal during the First World War and the establishment of Harworth Colliery (which has since closed), to provide homes for miners. It was home to one of the last deep-mine pits in the UK. Cite Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4696171.stm |Deep coal mine to end production|BBC News| 19/07/2005|access date 9 May 2025
See also
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Category:Villages in Nottinghamshire
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