Dinnington High School

Dinnington High School is a coeducational comprehensive school and Sixth Form in Dinnington, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Much of the school's campus was designed by architect Basil Spence. Former pupils of Dinnington High School are known as Old Dinnonians, and they include 19th century criminal Charles Peace and historian Ebenezer Rhodes. The school is based entirely on a 50-acre estate, containing all academic buildings and facilities, including the ruins of an 18th-century folly, and a well-preserved 20th century traditional gymnasium. There are 984 students in the school. All students are day pupils between the ages of 11 and 18, and are predominantly from Dinnington and the surrounding settlements. Admissions to the lower school are non-selective; the sixth form offers places on academic conditions.

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Dinnington Town F.C.

Dinnington Town Football Club is a football club based in Dinnington, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

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Dinnington Main Colliery

Dinnington Main Colliery was a coal mine situated in the village of Dinnington, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Until the coming of the colliery Dinnington was a mainly agricultural village with a small amount of quarrying in the area. In 1899 preparations were being made by the Sheffield Coal Company to sink a new colliery at Dinnington. The company did not have the resources to complete the work and entered into a partnership with the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co and this joint company, the Dinnington Main Colliery Company, came into being in 1900. The colliery commenced sinking in 1902 and reached the Barnsley seam of coal in the summer of 1904. The first coal was drawn to the surface the following year which is also when the mine gained its second shaft. Rail connection for the colliery was eventually made by the South Yorkshire Joint Railway (SYJR) when its line opened in January 1909. The SYJR was a five way joint line with connections to ports and towns in the area and beyond. At the time of the 1946 nationalisation of the coal industry the colliery was in the hands of Amalgamated Denaby Collieries, based at Denaby Main, near Doncaster. Following nationalisation the colliery became part of the National Coal Board. The colliery stopped production in October 1991, and was closed in 1992 with the loss of over 1,000 jobs. At the start of the 21st century, the former colliery site was subject to one of the largest former coal mine reclamation schemes that Yorkshire had seen. Johnston Press, a regional publisher and printer, sited a £60 million printing press on the site in 2006. Nearby St Leonard's Church in Dinnington, has a mining memorial commemorating the 74 miners who died whilst working at Dinnington Main, though the eventual tally of the dead is disputed by some researchers.

Throapham

Throapham is a hamlet in the civil parish of Dinnington St John's, in the Rotherham district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. Throapham was historically a township in the ancient parish of St John's in the West Riding of Yorkshire. St John's parish church, a Grade I listed building, was in the neighbouring parish-town of St John's, a very small place, and the two places formed a single township known as St Johns with Throapham. In 1866 St Johns with Throapham became a civil parish, as did Letwell, the other township in the ancient parish. In 1954 the civil parish of St Johns with Throapham was abolished and merged with the civil parish of Dinnington to form the new civil parish of Dinnington St John's. In 1974 Throapham was transferred to the new county of South Yorkshire.

Laughton en le Morthen

Laughton en le Morthen is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham lying to the south of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, and its main attraction is All Saints’ Church with its tower and spire of 185 feet. The village had a population of 1,241 at the 2011 Census. The parish also includes the hamlets of Carr, Slade Hooton and Brookhouse, South Yorkshire.