Arksey
Coordinates: 53°33′19″N 1°07′32″W / 53.5553°N 1.1256°W
Arksey is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It was the birthplace of the children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd on 9 January 1890.
The sey in Arksey means island in old English , an appropriate name due to the fact as it being surrounded by marshland.
External links
-
Media related to Arksey at Wikimedia Commons - Arksey in the Domesday Book
History
Arksey is older than the Doomsday Book, (more facts on that in an external link above).
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/26/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.