Visitor Attractions in Doncaster - Conisbrough Castle, Barnsdale, Earth Centre, Doncaster, the Conisbrough Castle, Barnsdale, Earth Centre, Doncaster, the Dome Leisure Centre, Elsecar Heritage Railway Dome Leisure Centre, Elsecar Heritage Railway (Paperback)

Chapters: Conisbrough Castle, Barnsdale, Earth Centre, Doncaster, the Dome Leisure Centre, Elsecar Heritage Railway, Brodsworth Hall, Cusworth Hall, Highfields Lake, Hatfield Manor House. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Barnsdale, or Barnsdale Forest, is a relatively small area of South Yorkshire, England which has a rich history and the region is steeped in folklore. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Barnsdale lies in the immediate vicinity north and north-west of Doncaster, and which was formerly forested and a place of royal hunts, and also renowned as a haunt of the outlaw Robin Hood in early ballads. Barnsdale historically falls within the West Riding of Yorkshire within Yorkshire. The villages within Barnsdale are today part of the local government administration area South Yorkshire, the southern villages are more specifically now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. While the villages and hamlets of northern Barnsdale fall within the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire. The small South Yorkshire village of Hampole is generally considered to lie within the dead centre of what was once the Barnsdale Forest area . It is recorded that Richard Rolle (13001349), the famous Latin and English religious writer and Bible translator, spent his final years at Hampole as a hermit, secluded in the dense forest. The area was once thick woodland, rich with game and deer; and the monarchs of England are sometimes recorded as having gone on royal hunts in the Barnsdale forest. It is believed that at some point in the early medieval era, Barnsdale Forest was probably huge and may have covered most of South Yorkshire (in the same manner as Sherwood Forest probably once covered most of Nottinghamshire). It i...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2465297