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It is perhaps so named because it lies in the valley bottom between the directly opposed undulations of two small hills on the old road from Barnsley to Doncaster. |
It is perhaps so named because it lies in the valley bottom between the directly opposed undulations of two small hills on the old road from Barnsley to Doncaster. |
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About 10 mins drive from the actual foot of the stairs (where the two small hillsides meet) lie the ruins of Monk Bretton Priory, a cluniac monastery founded in 1145. One of its still extant outbuildings lies on the left en route from Stairfoot to the Priory and is now a public house called 'The Mill of the Black Monks'. Hickleton and its ancient church lies about twelve miles from Stairfoot on the old Doncaster Road. For centuries its priest was provided by the Priory which was originally under the jurisdiction of the Abbey at [[Media:Pontefract]]. |
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Revision as of 22:53, 19 April 2005
Stairfoot is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
It is perhaps so named because it lies in the valley bottom between the directly opposed undulations of two small hills on the old road from Barnsley to Doncaster.
About 10 mins drive from the actual foot of the stairs (where the two small hillsides meet) lie the ruins of Monk Bretton Priory, a cluniac monastery founded in 1145. One of its still extant outbuildings lies on the left en route from Stairfoot to the Priory and is now a public house called 'The Mill of the Black Monks'. Hickleton and its ancient church lies about twelve miles from Stairfoot on the old Doncaster Road. For centuries its priest was provided by the Priory which was originally under the jurisdiction of the Abbey at Media:Pontefract.