Killamarsh

Killamarsh
St Giles Church, Killamarsh
Killamarsh is located in Derbyshire
Killamarsh
Killamarsh
Location within Derbyshire
Population9,445 (civil parish, 2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSK458806
Civil parish
  • Killamarsh
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSHEFFIELD
Postcode districtS21
Dialling code0114
PoliceDerbyshire
FireDerbyshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament
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53°19′14″N 1°18′42″W / 53.3205°N 1.3116°W / 53.3205; -1.3116

Killamarsh is a village[2] and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, England, bordering Rotherham to the north and Sheffield to the north-west. It lies close to Derbyshire’s border with South Yorkshire.

Killamarsh is surrounded by, in a clockwise direction from the north, Rother Valley Country Park, the village of Wales, South Yorkshire, Kiveton, Woodall, Harthill, Barlborough, Spinkhill, Renishaw, Eckington, and the (former Derbyshire) Sheffield suburbs of Oxclose, Halfway and Holbrook.

The name 'Killamarsh' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Chinewoldemaresc.[3] It appears as Kinewaldesmers in the Charter Roll for 1249. The name means 'Cynewald's marsh'.[4]

  1. ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Killamarsh Parish Council". www.killamarsh-pc.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.753 and 1365
  4. ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.275.