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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/humberside-and-south-yorkshire-county-boundaries-order-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/168",
  "legislation_title": "The Humberside and South Yorkshire (County Boundaries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/humberside-and-south-yorkshire-county-boundaries-order-1993",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes changes, largely in open areas, to the boundary between Humberside (district of Boothferry) and the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire (metropolitan borough of Doncaster). The parishes affected are as follows–\nIn Humberside\nIn South Yorkshire\nBelton\nCrowle\nBlaxton\nHatfield\nEpworth\nWroot\nSykehouse\nThorne\nSnaith and Cowick\nConsequential changes are made to the boundaries of local government electoral areas, petty sessional divisions and coroners' districts.\nThe map and table forming part of this Note (pages 4 and 5) give a general guide to the location, area and population of the land affected. Prints of the detailed order maps (described in article 2) may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the Boothferry District Council, and of the Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, and additionally at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment located in 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.\nThe Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 (S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247) contain general provisions regarding the effect of orders such as this one.\nTABLE OF AREAS AFFECTED\nTransfer(s) from–\nParishes affected\nDescription–\nHumberside\n(Boothferry)\nto S. Yorks.\n(Doncaster)\nArticle 3\nArea (in hectares):150\nPopulation: 10\nBelton/Hatfield\nTransfer of open area located west of Anchor Drain\nand Goodcop Cottage, and North of Holme farm.\nTransfer of small area located South of\nWinters Low Bank Drain, including Goodcop Farm\nbuildings and Goodcop Pumping Station.\nCrowle/Thorne\nMinor realignment in vicinity of Crowle Waste affecting\nSwinefleet Warping Drain and the disused tramway\nSnaith/Sykehouse\nRealignments to centre of Rivers Don and Went at\nWent bridge/Went Green\nWroot/Blaxton\nTransfer of area bounded in the north by Candy Farm and\nin the south by Ninescores Lane, so that boundary follows\nCandy Bank, Twelve Foot Drain and the drain runninng\nsouth from Thatch Carr Plantation.\nS.Yorks. (Doncaster) to Humberside (Boothferry) Article 4 Area: 1120 Population: 65\nHatfield/Belton\nRealignment to the South of Goodcop Cottage to follow\ncentre of Winters Low Bank Drain.\nTransfer of open area located south-east of Willow Lodge\nFarm, and West of Old Catline Drain.\nTransfer of area bounded by the Anchor Drain in the north\nand West, and including Plains House Farm\nHatfield/Epworth\nTransfer of large area lying to the West of Old Catline\nDrain and the Scawcetts Drain, starting at a point north-west\nof Selby Farm and running southwards to Riverside Farm\nand Tunnel Pit Bridge. Area includes Don Farm Buildings,\nWest Carr houses, Roe Carr, Snow Cottage, The Roe,\nNinevah Farm buildings, and Parts of North Idle Drain\nand Lindholme Lake\nHatfield/Wroot\nTransfer of large area located to the North of the River\nTorne commencing north-east of Candy Farm and\ncontinuing in that direction through Wroot acres to Roe\nCarr drain. The new boundary generaly follows the line of\nMoor Bank Drain.\nProperties transferred include Ellerholme Farm, and the\npumping station near Tunnel bridge Pit Bridge.\nThorne/Crowle\nTransfer of large area located to the east of Swinefleet Warping Drain/Bletchers Drain, starting from a point north-west of Crowle Waste, and running southwards through Thorne Waste to Dirtness Bridge in the east and Anchor Drain in the west. The following are included in the transfer–\nMedge Hall, Lover’s Ground, New Warp Farm, Crook o' Moor Farm and Bridge, Dirtness Groves Farm, Groves Farm Cottage, Jacque’s Cottage, Hain’s farm and parts of Poplars Farms Farm and Jacque’s Farm.\nThorne/Snaith\nTransfer of area including Bank Side Farm, and part of the A614 road.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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