Harworth

{{infobox UK place

|country = England

|official_name = Harworth

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|static_image_caption = All Saints' Church, Harworth

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|map_type = Nottinghamshire

|civil_parish = Harworth Bircotes

|population = 7,948

|population_ref = (2011)

|shire_district= Bassetlaw

|shire_county = Nottinghamshire

|region= East Midlands

|constituency_westminster= Bassetlaw

|post_town= DONCASTER

|postcode_district = DN11

|postcode_area= DN

|dial_code= 01302

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Harworth is an area and former civil parish, now in the parish of Harworth Bircotes (with Bircotes) in the Bassetlaw district in 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}} It is {{convert|8|mi}} north of Worksop. The population of the civil parish of Harworth Bircotes was 7,948 in the 2011 Census.{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124295&c=Harworth+Bircotes&d=16&e=62&g=6456265&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1460284361585&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=10 April 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

image:Drinking fountain on Harworth Green - geograph.org.uk - 4260401.jpg

Etymology

The town's name is from Old English har "grey" (compare modern hoary") and

worth (also worō, worþ) "enclosure".{{cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Nottinghamshire/Harworth|title=Harworth Key to English Place-names|publisher=The University of Nottingham|accessdate=10 October 2021}} Harworth was recorded in the Domesday Book as Hareworde.{{cite web|url=http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/nottinghamshire2.html#harworth|title=Nottinghamshire F-R|publisher=The Domesday Book Online|accessdate=10 October 2021}}

History and Industrial Revolution

The Harworth coal mine opened in 1921 and produced coal for the power stations on the River Trent. A new pit tower was built in 1989 when the pit was at its peak of production but seven years later the colliery was 'mothballed'. In 2015, it was announced that the pit tower would be demolished and the colliery site would be redeveloped for housing which has since been completed. The former freight line and sidings into the colliery have been lifted and left undeveloped.{{cite web |last1=Pegden |first1=Tom |title=David Wilson buys stake in ex-Sherwood Forest colliery site |url=https://www.business-live.co.uk/commercial-property/david-wilson-homes-buys-stake-19344603 |website=Business Live |access-date=28 October 2021 |language=en |date=26 November 2020}} The local football team is called Harworth Colliery F.C.

File:Industrial units, Harworth - geograph.org.uk - 1226715.jpg

In 1961 the parish had a population of 8289.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10261855/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Harworth CP/AP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=26 July 2023}} On 1 April 1974 the parish was split; part stayed in Nottinghamshire, being renamed "Harworth Bircotes", part was added to neighbouring Bawtry in South Yorkshire.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/worksop.html|title=Worksop Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=26 July 2023}}{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The New Parishes Order 1973|year=1973|number=688|access-date=20 December 2023}}

File:Harworth Colliery - geograph.org.uk - 1623383.jpg in 2009]]

Notable people

The town – once a busy coalmining community – is particularly noteworthy as the home of Tom Simpson (1937–1967), one of Britain's greatest road racing cyclists, the World Champion in 1965. Simpson began his cycling career as a club member at Harworth and District Cycling Club. After his death on Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour de France, his body was brought back to Nottinghamshire and interred in Harworth's cemetery. A small museum dedicated to Simpson's achievements was opened in August 2001 and can be found in the Harworth and Bircotes sports and social club.

There is also a history of Gurkhas being here during the Second World War.

Author Lindsey Kelk hails from Harworth, and attended North Border Comprehensive School from 1992-99.

Schools

There is a Church of England primary School in Harworth (Harworth Church of England Academy){{cite web |title=Home Page |url=https://www.allsaintsharworth.co.uk/ |website=www.allsaintsharworth.co.uk |publisher=Harworth Church of England Academy |access-date=9 October 2021}} and a Catholic primary school in Bircotes (St Patrick's Catholic Primary School).{{cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.stpatrickscatholicps.co.uk/ |website=www.stpatrickscatholicps.co.uk |publisher=St Patrick's Catholic Primary School |access-date=9 October 2021}} The town is also served by Serlby Park Academy, a 3–18 school in Bircotes.{{cite web |title=Serlby Park Academy |url=https://www.serlbyparkacademy.org.uk/ |website= |publisher=Delta Academies Trust |access-date=9 October 2021}}

Places of worship

The Anglican parish church of All Saints is grade II listed and dates in part to the 12th century.{{NHLE|desc=Church of All Saints|num=1045715| access-date=9 October 2021}}{{cite web |title=All Saints' Parish Church |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/19713/ |website=www.achurchnearyou.com |access-date=9 October 2021 |language=en}}

Harworth Methodist Church is a red brick building in Bircotes, having been built as a facility for the 1920s mining population.{{cite web |title=Harworth |url=https://www.doncastermethodistcircuit.org.uk/600216090679.htm |website=www.doncastermethodistcircuit.org.uk |publisher=Doncaster Methodist Circuit |access-date=9 October 2021}}

St Patrick's Catholic Church was a wooden building built in the 1930s and included the Stations of the Cross carved in coal.{{cite web |title=Harworth - St Patrick |url=https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/harworth-st-patrick/ |website=Taking Stock |publisher=Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales |access-date=9 October 2021}} It closed at Easter 2018, and the parish merged with that of St Helen, Oldcotes which later formed part of the parish of St Jude, Worksop.{{cite web |title=St Helen's, Oldcotes |url=https://worksopcatholicchurches.weebly.com/st-helens-oldcotes.html |website=Catholic parishes of Bassetlaw |access-date=9 October 2021 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Saint Jude's Parish : Worksop-Oldcotes |url=http://www.stjudeshallam.co.uk/ |publisher=Parish of St Jude's Worksop, Oldcotes |access-date=9 October 2021}}

Listed buildings in Harworth

File:War memorial, Harworth - geograph.org.uk - 2556972.jpg

All Saints Church, the war memorial,{{NHLE|num=1421767 | desc=Harworth War Memorial and enclosing walls |access-date=10 October 2021}} and six properties in Main Street, Harworth (three barns{{NHLE|num=1045718 | desc=Barn at Syringa House |access-date=10 October 2021}}{{NHLE|num=1045717 | desc=Dovecote Barn |access-date=10 October 2021}}{{NHLE|num=1045716 | desc=Willow Barn |access-date=10 October 2021}} and three houses{{NHLE|num=1280161 | desc=Grange Farmhouse |access-date=10 October 2021}}{{NHLE|num= 1206685 | desc=High Farmhouse |access-date=10 October 2021}}{{NHLE|num=1206689 | desc=Syringa House |access-date=10 October 2021}}) are grade II listed buildings.

References

External links

[http://miranda.hemscott.com/servlet/HsPublic?context=ir.static.jsp&client=ukc&path=util&service=getPage&page=deep_mines_harworth&banner=deep_mines&left=deep_mines&right=deep_mines UK Coal Harworth]
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/4696171.stm Harworth pit to close in 2006.]
{{Genuki|county=NTT|Harworth}}
[https://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/media/3298/final-harworth-bircotes-development-plan.pdf Harworth & Bircotes Neighbourhood Development Plan 2015 – 2028]
[http://harworthandbircotesnp.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/3/1/20311851/understanding_harworth__bircotes.pdf Understanding Harworth & Bircotes: Harworth & Bircotes Neighbourhood Development Plan 2014 - 2028]

Category:Villages in Nottinghamshire

Category:Former civil parishes in Nottinghamshire

Category:Bassetlaw District