Orgreave, South Yorkshire

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Orgreave, South Yorkshire is a former mining village in northern England, historically associated with coal mining and the 1984–85 miners’ strike.

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Orgreave civil parish 1
Orgreave, South Yorkshire canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former mining village
village
associatedWith 1984–85 miners’ strike
Orgreave Coking Plant
Orgreave Colliery
coal mining industry
ceremonialCounty South Yorkshire
country United Kingdom
eventDateContext 1984
1985
eventSiteOf Battle of Orgreave
governedBy Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
historicalEconomicBase coal industry
historicallyIn West Riding of Yorkshire
historicalUse coal mining
industrialPast coal extraction
coke production
landUseChange from industrial to mixed-use development
locatedIn Northern England
Orgreave civil parish
locatedNear M1 motorway
River Rother
Rotherham
Sheffield
nearbySettlement Catcliffe
Hands­worth, Sheffield
Treeton
notableFor controversy over policing during miners’ strike
violent clashes between police and miners in 1984
partOf England
Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
South Yorkshire
policeForceJurisdiction South Yorkshire Police
politicalConstituency Rother Valley (UK Parliament constituency)
postalArea Sheffield postcode area
redevelopmentType business park
residential development
region Yorkshire and the Humber
subjectOf public inquiries and campaigns for investigation
timeZone Greenwich Mean Time
timeZoneDST British Summer Time
transportNearby Woodhouse railway station

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The Battle of Orgreave locationOfFirstPerformance Orgreave, South Yorkshire
Orgreave, South Yorkshire locatedIn Orgreave civil parish
linked to: Orgreave, South Yorkshire