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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Predicate Object
instanceOf former mining village
village
associatedWith 1984–85 miners’ strike
Orgreave Coking Plant NERFINISHED
Orgreave Colliery NERFINISHED
coal mining industry
ceremonialCounty South Yorkshire NERFINISHED
country United Kingdom
eventDateContext 1984
1985
eventSiteOf Battle of Orgreave NERFINISHED
governedBy Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council NERFINISHED
historicalEconomicBase coal industry
historicallyIn West Riding of Yorkshire NERFINISHED
historicalUse coal mining
industrialPast coal extraction
coke production
landUseChange from industrial to mixed-use development
locatedIn Northern England
Orgreave civil parish NERFINISHED
locatedNear M1 motorway NERFINISHED
River Rother NERFINISHED
Rotherham NERFINISHED
Sheffield NERFINISHED
nearbySettlement Catcliffe NERFINISHED
Hands­worth, Sheffield NERFINISHED
Treeton NERFINISHED
notableFor controversy over policing during miners’ strike
violent clashes between police and miners in 1984
partOf England
Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham NERFINISHED
South Yorkshire NERFINISHED
policeForceJurisdiction South Yorkshire Police NERFINISHED
politicalConstituency Rother Valley (UK Parliament constituency) NERFINISHED
postalArea Sheffield postcode area NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED

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The Battle of Orgreave locationOfFirstPerformance Orgreave, South Yorkshire