Wingfield Academy

Wingfield Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the Wingfield area of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It has been renamed three times since it opened. It was originally named Wingfield Comprehensive School until September 2006 when it became simply Wingfield School. In September 2008, it became a specialist school and was rebranded as Wingfield Business & Enterprise College. The third rename occurred in August 2013 when the college completed its transition to an academy becoming Wingfield Academy. On 1 December 2020 Wingfield Academy become part of the New Collaborative Learning Trust.

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Wingfield, Rotherham

Wingfield is a small area in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. A Rotherham MBC ward bears this name. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 11,835. Wingfield Academy is a secondary school located in the area. There is a shop, a bus route, there used to be a swimming baths, now closed.

Greasbrough

Greasbrough is a small village in Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls in the Greasbrough Ward of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. Greasbrough had its own local council, Greasbrough UDC (Urban District Council), until its absorption into the County Borough of Rotherham in 1936. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Greasbrough has 2,038 inhabitants and 2,270 acres (9.2 km2) of land belonging to Earl FitzWilliam. It is located two miles (3 km) north of Rotherham. Greasbrough has a gothic-style church called St. Mary's, which was completed in 1828. A schoolroom is built into the rear lower part of the building. There are also Wesleyan and Independent chapels, also with attached schools. There is a main school in Greasbrough named Greasbrough Junior & Infant School, situated on Munsbrough Rise. This also has a nursery in the same building, starting from the age of 3. Greasbrough also has a football team called Greasbrough Youth, with players from ages 6. It is also well known for its Working Men's Club which has been host to many famous acts over the years such as Johnnie Ray, Bob Monkhouse, Matt Monro and Adam Faith.

Greasbrough War Memorial

Greasbrough War Memorial is a Grade II listed war memorial located in the centre of Greasbrough, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was erected to commemorate local residents who died in military service during the First World War. Additional names were added following the Second World War.

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Bradgate Brickworks

Bradgate Brickworks (grid reference SK413935) is a 0.9 hectare (2.2 acre) geological site of Special Scientific Interest in South Yorkshire. The site was notified in 1988. In November 2001 a report by Rotherham Borough Council noted concern that overgrown vegetation at the site presented a risk to the geological features of the quarry face and proposed the acquisition and management of the site by the Council.