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Woodthorpe, North Yorkshire
Woodthorpe is a suburb in the south west of the city of York, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. The surrounding areas are Dringhouses and Foxwood. The area of Woodthorpe was built in several phases from the 1960s to the 1990s. The name Woodthorpe is believed to have been the name of one of the first large housing development projects around the Moorcroft Road and Acorn Way area and this name has stuck. Locally the name Woodthorpe is generally used for the areas south of Acomb Wood and east to Moorcroft Road and Acorn Way.
To the east is Dringhouses, to the north is Foxwood, and to the west is Acomb Park. In January 2017 the suburb made national headlines when seven year old Katie Rough was killed by asphyxiation and stabbed in the neck near her home by a 15-year-old female.
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St James the Deacon's Church, Acomb Moor
St James the Deacon's Church is a parish church of the Church of England in Acomb, a suburb of York in England.
A mission church was opened in the Acomb Moor area in 1952, in the parish of St Stephen's Church, Acomb. In 1968, it was granted its own parish. The church building was designed by George Pace, with construction starting in 1969. It was consecrated in 1971. It is the only church dedicated to James the Deacon.
The church has a large, unequal, pitched roof, with the ridge over the altar. It has multiple vestries and a narthex. A weekday chapel opens off the narthex, with its own single-pitched roof, and a bell turret above. The building incorporates a 12th-century doorway from the demolished St Maurice's Church, a 15th-century font from St Sampson's Church, and a 14th-century altar slab from York Minster. Most other fittings come from St Maurice and St Sampson, and include some 17th-century wooden carvings depicting the Four Evangelists.
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Dringhouses
Dringhouses is a suburb of York, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is bounded by the Knavesmire, an open area of land on which York Racecourse is situated, to the east, Askham Bog and the A64 to the south, Woodthorpe and Foxwood to the west, and Acomb and Holgate to the north. It is part of the City of York ward is called Dringhouses and Woodthorpe which covers an area of 4.3 km2 (1.7 sq mi) and had a population of 11,084 at the 2011 Census. It is located approximately two and quarter miles from York City Centre.
The name derives from "Drengeshirses" (1109) and means "the houses of the drengs", a "dreng" being a man who held land by a particular kind of free tenure.
It is a mixture of housing estates and large open spaces, with the East Coast main railway line running through the middle.
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York High School, York
York High School is a mixed secondary school in York, North Yorkshire, England. It has a comprehensive admissions policy, and in 2016 had an enrolment of 757 pupils ages 11–16.
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Ashfield Secondary Modern School
Ashfield Secondary Modern School was a coeducational secondary modern school in York, England. Its site on the corner of Tadcaster Road and Sim Balk Lane in York was taken over by York Sixth Form College, which later merged with York College of Further and Higher Education to become York College. After many years of use by York College as A-Level classrooms for subjects including art, music, law, politics and mathematics, the Ashfield buildings were demolished in 2005 to make way for a new building for York College, which opened in 2007.
The school had approximately 600 pupils with five year groups of 120 children each. Pupils in each year were split between four 'houses'; Castle (Yellow), Abbey (Red), Priory (Blue), and Minster (Green). The class of 1985 was the last class to complete secondary education at Ashfield. From July 1985, the school was taken over by York College. The last Head-Master of Ashfield was Mr. J.E. Parkinson....AKA Batman
Some of the well known teachers in the school's latter years were:
Mr Cavanagh Art and Engineering drawing
Mr Long Woodwork
Mr Cooley Metalwork
Mr Key Plasticwork
Mr Milner (English)
Mr Middleton (Physics)
Mr Clarke (Maths)
Mr Newstead (Biology)
Mr Medd (PE)
Mr Johnson (History & PE)
Mr Evans (History)
Mrs Pavor (English)
Mr Dorman (Chemistry)
Mrs Hopkins (Art)
Mrs Jefferies (Geography)
Mr Murgatroyd (Music)
Mr Hird. English