Hemingfield
village in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Hemingfield is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Hoyland Milton Ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. The village has two pubs, The Albion and The Elephant & Castle, as well as a post office and The Ellis CofE Primary School. Notable organisations, past and present, include Hemingfield Action Group (HAG) and Albion AFC.
In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Hemingfield:
HEMINGFIELD, a village in Wombwell township, Darfield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; 4 miles SE of Barnesley. Pop., 346. It has a post office under Barnesley, and a charity school.
Etymology
Legend has it the village gets its name from a Viking named 'Heming' who settled and established a farmstead. Hence, it was "Heming's field".
Hemingfield Colliery
Hemingfield Colliery, also known as Elsecar Low Colliery, opened in 1840, and first produced coal in 1848. The colliery is now preserved as a heritage attraction by the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery.
“Hemingfield” enters the record as village in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hemingfield, village and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Hemingfield” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hemingfield, village and South provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5711798. Authority coordinates are 53.516, -1.400. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1870, 1840 and 1848.
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