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| Killamarsh | |
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 St Giles Church, Killamarsh | |
  Killamarsh Location within Derbyshire | |
| Population | 9,445 (civil parish, 2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SK458806 |
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| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SHEFFIELD |
| Postcode district | S21 |
| Dialling code | 0114 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
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]
- ^ "Neighbourhood Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- ^ "Killamarsh Parish Council". www.killamarsh-pc.gov.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.753 and 1365
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.275.