Wath upon Dearne

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Wath upon Dearne
The Market Cross, Montgomery Square, Wath-upon-Dearne
Wath upon Dearne Location within South Yorkshire
Population	16,964 (cite 2021 census)[1]
OS grid reference	SE438008
Metropolitan borough	Rotherham
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ROTHERHAM
Postcode district	S63
Dialling code	01709
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Wentworth and Dearne
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°30′08″N 1°20′25″W / 53.5022°N 1.3402°W / 53.5022; -1.3402

Wath upon Dearne (shortened to Wath /ˈwɒθ/ or often hyphenated) is a town south of the River Dearne in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, 5 miles (8 km) north of Rotherham and almost midway between Barnsley and Doncaster. It had a population of 11,816 at the 2011 census.^[2] It is twinned with Saint-Jean-de-Bournay in France.^[3]