Kexbrough is a village in the

Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley is a metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England; the main settlement is Barnsley and other notable towns include Penistone, Wombwell and Hoyland. The borough is bisected by the M1 motorway; it is rur ...

(part 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), on the border with

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. The village falls within the Darton West ward of Barnsley MBC. It is located west of the

M1 motorway The M1 motorway connects London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle. It was the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the UK; the first motorway in the country was the Preston By-pass, which lat ...

, just south of Junction 38 at an elevation of around above sea level. Historically the village was known as Kexborough, and includes the hamlets of Haigh and Swithin.

History

Kexbrough is mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as belonging to Ilbert of Lacey, and having two villagers, a meadow, ploughlands and six furlongs of woodland. Historically in the parish of Darton and the

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of Staincross, the village is recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Chizeburg'', being ''Kesseburgh'' in the 14th century, and ''Kexbrough'' by the 1580s. The place name is derived from a combination of a personal name, and ''burh'', which meant a fortified place. The village is just west of the M1 motorway, about above sea level, being some north-west of Barnsley, and south of

Wakefield Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...

Transport

Kexbrough is served by local and Express buses to Barnsley Interchange via Baurgh Green or

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as well as longer distance services to

and

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

. Bus companies that operate in Kexbrough are Stagecoach and Globe Coaches. Bus routes are 93,93a,95,95a,96,96a and X10. The nearest railway station is

Darton railway station Darton railway station is a railway station in Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern. The station was opened by the Manchester and Leeds Railway on 1 January 1850. ...

on the

Hallam Line The Hallam Line is a railway connecting Leeds and Sheffield via Castleford in the West Yorkshire Metro area of northern England. It is a slower route from Leeds to Sheffield than the Wakefield line. Services on this line are operated by Nort ...

. Kexbrough lies directly to the west of

Darton Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley (part of South Yorkshire), on the border with West Yorkshire, England. At the time of the 2001 UK census, it had a population of 14,927, increasing to 21,345 for both Darton Ward ...

and is connected by the

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, to the M1 at Junction 38.

Education

Kexbrough has two schools, Darton Academy, and Kexbrough Primary School.

References

{{authority control Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley Villages in South Yorkshire

History

Transport

Education

See also

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