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	'''Eckington''' is a town in ], part of the ].<ref name="BUA">{{cite web \| url=http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/747.aspx\|title=2011 Census - Built-up areas\| work= \| publisher=] \| accessdate=1 July 2013}}</ref> It is 7 miles (11 km) northeast of ] and 8.5 miles (14 km) southeast of ] ], on the border with ]. It lies on the ] and ] roads close to the ] for Sheffield and Junction 30 of the ]. It had a 2001 population of 11,152,<ref name=population/> increasing to 11,855 (including ], ] and ]) at the 2011 Census.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123081&c=Eckington&d=16&e=62&g=6414580&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458555707869&enc=1\|title=Civil Parish population 2011\|accessdate=21 March 2016\|publisher=Office for National Statistics\|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>		'''Eckington''' is a town in ], part of the ].<ref name="BUA">{{cite web \| url=http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/747.aspx\|title=2011 Census - Built-up areas\| work= \| publisher=] \| accessdate=1 July 2013}}</ref> It is 7 miles (11 km) northeast of ] and 8.5 miles (14 km) southeast of ] ], on the border with ]. It lies on the ] and ] roads close to the ] for Sheffield and Junction 30 of the ]. It had a 2001 population of 11,152,<ref name=population/> increasing to 11,855 (including ], ] and ]) at the 2011 Census.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123081&c=Eckington&d=16&e=62&g=6414580&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1458555707869&enc=1\|title=Civil Parish population 2011\|accessdate=21 March 2016\|publisher=Office for National Statistics\|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>

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	==History==
	Ten ] coins discovered in December 2008,<ref></ref> near Eckington Cemetery may be evidence of a Roman settlement or road in the area. The oldest of the silver and copper coins is from the reign of the emperor ] (AD 81 to 96) while the others are from the reigns of ] (AD 98 to 117) and ] (AD 117 to 138).

	Eckington is recorded in the ] in 1086 as ''Echintune'',<ref name = "Domesday">''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. {{ISBN\|0-14-143994-7}} p.1340</ref> a manor given to Ralph Fitzhubert.<ref name="rfh">who held several manors including some in Derbyshire given by the ]. They included Eckington and lands in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]</ref> Some parts of the ] date to 1100.

	], son of George and Mary was baptised in 1601 in Eckington. George's father died whilst he was a child but as an adult he acquired the freehold of land in Eckington<ref>, National Archives, Retrieved March 2010</ref> and exploited it by mining iron ore.<ref name=odnb/> In 1625, he built ] which is now owned by ] daughter, Alexandra and her family.

	Sitwell exploited the minerals beneath his estate, chiefly iron and built a blast furnace at ] a mile north west of Eckington in the 1630s with his mother's second husband, Henry Wigfall. In 1652 Sitwell built a furnace at Foxbrooke, close to Renishaw, which became the core of the largest ironworks in Derbyshire. Sitwell made saws at Pleasley and in 1656, installed a rolling and slitting mill at Renishaw to supply the rod iron used by numerous local nailmakers.<ref name=odnb/>

	During the ] coal and iron ore were mined and local streams, such as the Moss Brook, were harnessed to provide power for factories. The Sitwells built a large ] and ironworks. ]s, sickles and nails were made in the town for local use and for export.<ref name="tde">{{citation \|last=Lewis \|first=Samuel\|title=Eckington St Peter and St Paul\|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50939 \|work=A Topographical Dictionary of England \|publisher=British History Online \|pages=139–144\|year=1848 \|accessdate=7 June 2012}}</ref> The Moss Brook was dammed to provide water power at eight sites including ChapelWheel, Carlton Wheel and Fields Wheel, to grind the blades. The remains of an old forge and drift mines exist in the valley.<ref name ="MVW">{{citation\|title=Conserving the Moss Valley and its wildlife\|url=http://www.mossvalleywildlife.org.uk/w/doku.php?id=start\|publisher=Moss Valley Wildlife\|accessdate= 8 June 2012}}</ref> Eckington had a ] mine in the eastern part of the town, one of the very few in the country which is still operated.

	In November there was a ] for servants.<ref name="tde"/>

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Human settlement in England

Eckington
Eckington town centre
EckingtonLocation within Derbyshire
Population	11,152 (civil parish, 2001)
OS grid reference	SK434749
District	North East Derbyshire
Shire county	Derbyshire
Region	East Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHEFFIELD
Postcode district	S21
Dialling code	01246

Police	Derbyshire
Fire	Derbyshire
Ambulance	East Midlands

UK Parliament	North East Derbyshire
List of places UK England Derbyshire 53°18′29″N 1°21′51″W / 53.308°N 1.3643°W / 53.308; -1.3643

Eckington is a town in North East Derbyshire, part of the Sheffield urban area. It is 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Chesterfield and 8.5 miles (14 km) southeast of Sheffield city centre, on the border with South Yorkshire. It lies on the B6052 and B6056 roads close to the A6135 for Sheffield and Junction 30 of the M1. It had a 2001 population of 11,152, increasing to 11,855 (including Bramley, Renishaw and Troway) at the 2011 Census.

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Governance

Historically, Eckington was an ecclesiastical parish in the hundred of Scarsdale in Derbyshire. After 1837 it was in the Chesterfield Poor Law Union.

Geography

Eckington covers an area of 2,089 acres. The geology is the coal measures containing coal and ironstone. The Chesterfield Canal and Midland Railway passed through the parish. The Moss Brook is a tributary of the River Rother.

Schools

The oldest school in Eckington is Camms CE Primary School. In 1702, Thomas Camm endowed a schoolhouse and a schoolmaster to teach 24 poor children in the parish. In 1832, Robert Harrison moved the school to a new building which cost £600, and it was moved again to its current location on Castle Hill in 1975.

Eckington School is a large comprehensive school, attracting pupils from the surrounding areas of Killamarsh, Renishaw, Beighton, Ridgeway and Mosborough. Despite being closer to several Sheffield residential areas the admissions policy favours pupils from Derbyshire feeder schools. It is a designated specialist engineering college. Eckington Grammar School in Halfway became Derbyshire's first comprehensive school in 1957, changing its name to the Westfield School, and since 1967 has been controlled by the city of Sheffield.

Culture

Located on the border between South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, Eckington and other towns such as Killamarsh, Mosborough and Ridgeway have their own local accent, a cross between the Sheffield (as opposed to Yorkshire) and Chesterfield accents. The influence of the Sheffield accent is the more strong.

Amenities

Eckington has a swimming pool near the library, built in the 1970s as part of a town centre improvement. The town has a bus station (halt).

Eckington Woods to the west of the town forms part of the Moss Valley conservation area. They are also known as the Bluebell Wood because of the quantity of bluebells in the springtime.

Transport

Eckington bus station serves Eckington and is on Pinfold Street. It has four stands and two rest stands. The major companies using it are Stagecoach Chesterfield, Stagecoach Mansfield and TM Travel.

People

Notable people from Eckington include:

Walter Bussey, footballer
Herbert Henry Elvin, trade union leader
Joseph Gales, Sr., politician and journalist
Joseph Gales, Jr., journalist and Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Joan Hinde, trumpeter
George Sitwell, Ironmaster was born here in 1601
Paul West, poet
Zoë Baker, swimmer

Photos

Eckington War Memorial
St Peter & St Paul's
Old Market Street

References

Citations

^ "Neighbourhood Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
"2011 Census - Built-up areas". ONS. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
"Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
^ Cite error: The named reference tde was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Camms School History Archived 6 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Derbyshire schools admissions policy Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Eckington Swimming Pool Archived 2 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
Eckington Library
Philip Riden, ‘Sitwell, George (bap. 1601, d. 1667)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 March 2010

Bibliography

Bowlt, Eileen. M. (1994) Ruislip Past. London: Historical Publications ISBN 0-948667-29-X

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