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Heritage

Sitlington has a rich heritage dating right back to the Domesday book of 1086 as "Scellintone". The township was known as Shitlington until 1929. Today, features of historical interest include a manor house, windmill, turnpike toll houses, churches and a woollen mill, as well as former collieries.

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1. A brief history of Earnshaws’
2. A fishy tale of when a community railed to help
3. A Little Girl at a Big Party
4. Account of mill fire 1929
5. Baptism records show Coxley Valley’s interesting past
6. Celebrating 200 years of Methodist Chapels in Netherton
7. Coxley Live
8. Coxley Valley Poem 1930s
9. Does anyone recognise this pottery?
10. Excerpts from the Middlestown with Netherton Parish Magazine - 1920s
11. From the St. Andrew's Netherton page from the magazine of April 1923:
12. Hello! Magazine reads Coxley News!
13. Local History Group
14. Memories of Coxley from Canada
15. Memories of Emroyd Valley
16. Middlestown as I remember it as a child
17. Middlestown as I remember it as a child Part 2
18. Middlestown as I remember it as a child Part 3
19. Middlestown as I remember it as a child Part 4
20. Midgley – a brief background history
21. Observing at the Council Elections May 2011
22. Pit Checks
23. Response to Middlestown pottery mystery
24. Seven Chapels of Sitlington Walk
25. Stonechapel House mystery
26. The National Coal Mining Museum
27. The Old Cobbler’s Shop - Netherton
28. THE ONLY BLUE HOUSE IN ‘TOWN’
29. The tale of an Overton miner in Gallipoli in 1915
30. Walking around Coxley: John Readman
31. West Yorkshire Archive Service
32. Wilfred Ibbotson Dambuster

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2. Incredible Edible May Events 02/05/13
3. This Saturday 4th May 7:30pm at Netherton club is the re-arranged Murder Mystery evening 01/05/13
4. The Village Gala (Middlestown/Overton) Saturday 18th May 01/05/13

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2. Family Wildlife Walk 29/05/13
3. Coffee afternoon 01/06/13
4. Children's Film Club Matinee Special 01/06/13

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