Balne

Balne est un village et une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre.

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Great Heck

Great Heck is a small village in Heck parish, about 7 miles (11 km) south of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was 201 at the 2011 census. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The village was the site of the Great Heck rail crash in 2001. The name Heck derives from the Old English hæcc meaning 'hatch'.

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Heck, North Yorkshire

Heck is a civil parish in the English county of North Yorkshire. The population of this civil parish at the census 2011 was 201, a slight drop on the 2001 census figure of 209. The main settlement is Great Heck, there is also Little Heck at grid reference SE599220. Before April 1974 it was part of Osgoldcross Rural District and the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. It was the location of the fatal Selby rail crash in February 2001.

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Pincheon Green

Pincheon Green is a hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Sykehouse, on the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire, and lies 4 metres (13 ft) above sea level. The name is thought to derive from "Pinch(e)on", a surname which is a variant of Puncheon, and "grene", the Middle English word for a field or grassy place. It was first recorded on maps in 1817, and documented in Tithe Awards in 1841. The hamlet is surrounded by waterways. To the east is the River Don, while to the west is the New Junction Canal. To the north are the Aire and Calder Navigation, (Knottingley and Goole section) and the River Went. Immediately to the north of the dwellings is the Sykehouse Main Drain. The drain flows from west to east, and is pumped into the River Don by Town Cloughs pumping station, managed by the Danvm Drainage Commissioners, an internal drainage board. Between the drain and the River Went, protection from flooding is provided by the Sykehouse Barrier Bank, which runs along the southern edge of the Went Lows washland. The washland floods when high levels in the River Don cause the pointing doors at the mouth of the River Went to close, preventing water from the Don flowing up the Went, but also preventing downstream flow on the Went from discharging into the Don. Warren Hall is situated on the western edge of the hamlet. The moated site is a scheduled monument. Such sites were usually built in the Middle Ages, and consist of a wide ditch, often water-filled, which surrounded an island of dry ground, on which domestic or religious buildings were built. Warren Hall is unusual in that there were two islands, and the remains of a wooden bridge were discovered on the northern edge of the larger island when a slurry pit was being constructed on the farm in 1962. Some medieval tiles found on the site are in the Doncaster Museum. Warren Hall was mentioned in a lease dated to 1521, when William Copley took up residence there. Prior to that it had been the home of the Fitzwilliam family.

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Selby rail crash

The Selby rail crash (also known as the Great Heck rail crash) was a railway accident that occurred on 28 February 2001 near Great Heck, Selby, North Yorkshire when a passenger train collided with a car which had crashed down a motorway embankment onto the railway line. The passenger train then collided with an oncoming freight train. Ten people died, including the drivers of the two trains, and 82 were injured. It remains the worst rail disaster of the 21st century in the United Kingdom. The driver of the car, Gary Hart, was convicted of ten counts of causing death by dangerous driving and sentenced to five years in prison after a jury found that he had fallen asleep while driving. Hart's insurers paid out £30 million in claims. The Health and Safety Executive investigated the accident, and made several recommendations, including research into the crashworthiness of rail vehicles. The Health and Safety Commission and Highways Agency created working groups to investigate the risks of road vehicle incursions onto railways. The Department for Transport issued a report containing guidance for assessing and mitigating the risks identified by the working groups.

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Fenwick, South Yorkshire

Fenwick is a small village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, on the border with North Yorkshire. It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is located at an elevation of around 6 metres (20 ft) above sea level and had a population of 121 at the 2011 Census, a slight increase from 113 at the 2001 Census. The northern boundary of the parish is marked by the River Went. The name Fenwick derives from the Old English fennwīc meaning 'trading settlement on the fen'.

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