Wheatley is an inner suburb of

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

, in the

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of Doncaster, in the

district, in the county of

South Yorkshire South Yorkshire is a ceremonial and metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. The county has four council areas which are the cities of Doncaster and Sheffield as well as the boroughs of Barnsley and Rotherham. In N ...

, England. It lies immediately north-east of the centre of Doncaster, mostly south of the

A630 The A630 is an A road in the United Kingdom. It runs between Sheffield city centre and junction 4 of the M18 motorway passing through Rotherham and Doncaster on the way. The road is entirely in South Yorkshire. Route The road starts at th ...

dual carriageway. It is bounded to the north by the River Don, to the east by

Wheatley Hills Wheatley Hills is a suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is situated around north-east of the city centre. The Wheatley Hills & Intake ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster had a population of 17,733 at the 2011 cens ...

, and to the south by

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. There are numerous new housing and retail developments currently under construction to the north of the A630, opposite the Wheatley Centre shopping park.

History

The name "Wheatley" means 'Wheat wood/clearing'. Wheatley was recorded in the

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as ''Watelag''/''Watelage''. Wheatley was formerly an

extra-parochial tract In England and Wales, an extra-parochial area, extra-parochial place or extra-parochial district was a geographically defined area considered to be outside any ecclesiastical or civil parish. Anomalies in the parochial system meant they had no chu ...

, from 1866 Wheatley was a civil parish in its own right, on 9 November 1914 the parish was abolished and merged with Doncaster. Wheatley was an

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from 1900 to 1914. In 1911 the parish had a population of 5363.

References

{{Reflist Populated places in South Yorkshire Former civil parishes in South Yorkshire Geography of Doncaster