Monk Bretton
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| Monk Bretton | |
  Monk Bretton shown within South Yorkshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| Metropolitan borough | Barnsley |
| Metropolitan county | South Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Barnsley |
| Postcode district | S71 |
| Dialling code | 01226 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| European Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | Don Valley |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
Coordinates: Monk Bretton is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It has been a settlement since medieval times and was originally known as just 'Bretton', probably taking its name from the twelfth-century Adam fitz Swain de Bretton, whose family owned much land in the area and who also founded Monk Bretton Priory. [1] In 1444, Sir William de Bretton gave to Thomas Haryngton, esquire, and other trustees, lands and tenements in Monk Bretton, which his father and grandfather had leased to the prior and convent for a term of years.[2] More info here
Most of the older buildings have been demolished and the oldest structure still standing is a 400-year-old barn at the junction of Cross Street and Westgate. The village greatly expanded in the 19th and 20th centuries with the building of new housing estates, so that today Monk Bretton more or less merges into nearby Lundwood, Carlton, Athersley and Smithies.
Monk Bretton has a 200-year old church and several pubs together with a number of shops. There is a disused former Quaker burial ground and a modern cemetery, which contains the grave of former England and Manchester United striker Tommy Taylor, who was killed in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
The nearby Priory of St Mary Magdalene of Lund, a ruined former Cluniac (later Benedictine) house, is commonly known as Monk Bretton Priory although it actually lies outside the village in the Lundwood area. The presence of the nearby monastery is believed to be the origin of the 'Monk' part of the name.
Famous people from Monk Bretton include Yorkshire, Essex and England cricketer Darren Gough, and Sam Nixon, runner up of ITV's Pop Idol[citation needed]. Keith Laybourn, long serving Professor of History at Huddersfield University, was born in Monk Bretton. As a youth the renowned cricket umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird is said to have worked at the colliery.
[edit] See also
- Monk Bretton Priory
- John Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton (He took the title for his 1884 peerage from Monk Bretton; having inherited lands there from his mother's family of Pearson).
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