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| Name | Askern |
| Type | Town, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 53.617°N 1.15°W |
| Located in | West Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | South Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) | | Yorkshire, England |
| See also | Strafforth and Tickhill Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which it was located | | Doncaster Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district of which it was a part until 1974 | | Doncaster (metropolitan borough), South Yorkshire, England | metropolitan borough of which it has been a part since 1974 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Askern is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the A19 road between Doncaster and Selby. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it became a spa town in the late 19th century, but this stopped once coal mines opened in the town. The last mine closed in the 1990s. It had a population of 5,570 at the 2011 Census.
Askern is also well known in South Yorkshire for its Askern Greyhound Stadium.
Historically, Askern was in the ecclesiastical parish of Campsall in the wapentake of Osgoldcross. From 1894 until 1974, Askern was located in the Doncaster Rural District.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Askern. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Campsall provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Askern.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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