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Brackenhill

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Brackenhill, Ackworth geograph.org.uk 249315
Brackenhill, Ackworth geograph.org.uk 249315

Brackenhill is a village in West Yorkshire, England, which forms part of Ackworth parish. It is situated on the A638 road on the eastern bank of Hessle Beck, west of Ackworth Moor Top and north of Fitzwilliam Country Park. A major industry in Brackenhill was quarrying, and at the end of the 19th century the majority of the male inhabitants of the village were occupied in the quarries. The stone is counted among the Pennine Upper Coal Measures which originated in the Carboniferous age. Quarried materials include magnesian limestone and sandstone. The quarries were served from 1914 to 1962 by the Brackenhill Light Railway, a subsidiary of the London and North Eastern Railway. It branched off the line between Sheffield and York east of Ackworth and joined the line between Wakefield and Doncaster at Hemsworth Colliery near Fitzwilliam. Brackenhill inhabitants also worked in Hemsworth Colliery.

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Brackenhill
Wakefield Road, Wakefield

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Ackworth Born And Bread

Wakefield Road 94
WF7 7BD Wakefield
England, United Kingdom
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Wragby, West Yorkshire
Wragby, West Yorkshire

Wragby is a hamlet and former parish in the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Hessle and Hill Top, although on the border of Huntwick with Foulby and Nostell. The village is on the A638 road from Wakefield to Doncaster, immediately east of the National Trust property of Nostell Priory. Wilson's 1870-1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales describes Wragby as a parish in Hemsworth district, with one village and five townships, and a population of 594 people in 192 houses, where "coal and building-stone are worked; and bricks, tiles, and pipes are made." Wragby was part of the historic county of the West Riding of Yorkshire until April 1974. The village was also part of the ancient Wapentake of Staincross. Wragby's parish church, situated in the grounds of Nostell Priory and not in the village, is the grade I listed Church of St Michael and Our Lady. The church was built in the 1520s-1530s, and contains some earlier Romanesque fragments, and a collection of Swiss stained glass, dating from the early-16th to mid-18th centuries, which has been described as "second largest private collection of Swiss glass panels in the world". A weekly parish eucharist service is held, and the church is in use for weddings. The village has, or had, a pub, the Spread Eagle, with records of landlords dating back to 1822 although the building may be older. As of 2024 it is reported to be "temporarily closed by the brewery".