Dore

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Dore (grid reference SK311812) is a village in South Yorkshire. Until 1934 it was part of Derbyshire, but it is now a suburb of Sheffield.

The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf. It has a reputation of being Sheffield's wealthiest suburb, and Dore and Totley is the only ward of the city that regularly elects a Conservative councillor. It is served by Dore railway station on the Hope Valley Line.

[edit] History

The name Dore derives from the same Old English root as door. The Limb Brook, River Sheaf, and Meers Brook marked the boundary between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Deira (later Northumbria) and Mercia, and it seems that Dore was a pass by which one travelled between the two kingdoms^[1].

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contains the earliest written record of Dore, recording that in 827 (probably actually 829) King Egbert of Wessex led his army to the village to receive the submission of King Eanred of Northumbria, thereby establishing his overlordship over the whole of Anglo-Saxon Britain:

This year was the moon eclipsed, on mid-winter's mass-night; and King Egbert, in the course of the same year, conquered the Mercian kingdom, and all that is south of the Humber, being the eighth king who was sovereign of all the British dominions. Ella, king of the South-Saxons, was the first who possessed so large a territory; the second was Ceawlin, king of the West-Saxons: the third was Ethelbert, King of Kent; the fourth was Redwald, king of the East-Angles; the fifth was Edwin, king of the Northumbrians; the sixth was Oswald, who succeeded him; the seventh was Oswy, the brother of Oswald; the eighth was Egbert, king of the West-Saxons. This same Egbert led an army against the Northumbrians as far as Dore, where they met him, and offered terms of obedience and subjection, on the acceptance of which they returned home.^[2]

It can therefore be argued that Egbert became the first king of England at Dore. A plaque commemorating this event was erected on the village green in 1968. The Old School was built in 1821 on the site of a previous school, on the right hand side was the teacher's accommodation. When Dore's new school was opened, the Old School was restored and opened as a community centre.

Christ Church

Christ Church Dore was built in 1829 and Dore became a separate parish in 1844^[3]. Dore remained a small village, having a population of just 500 in the 19th century, until it was annexed by Sheffield in 1934^[4]. . A paper mill was built on Avenue Farm in the XVII^th century, Joshua Tyzack converted the building into a scythe forge in 1839 and in 1881 built a large house next to the forge as a country retreat, his initials can be seen above the front door. In 1932 Dore's Parish council built a memorial commemorating the deaths of World War I.

In modern times, Dore is most famous for the Laitner massacre of 1983, which led to the arrest and incarceration of killer Arthur Hutchinson.

[edit] Residents

Notable residents include Gary Megson, a former footballer and manager of Nottingham Forest F.C. and Dave Bassett, former footballer and former manager of Southampton F.C., Watford F.C., Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest amongst others.

Michael Vaughan, of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the current captain of the England Cricket team, and Chris Waddle, a former player of Sheffield Wednesday football club, also reside in Dore.

[edit] References

^ Vickers, J. Edward MBE (1999). Dore. In Old Sheffield Town. An Historical Miscellany (2nd ed.), pp64–71. Sheffield: The Hallamshire Press Limited. ISBN 1-874718-44-X
^ Extract from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Translations available at Berkeley Digital Library and Project Gutenberg
^ Dore History. Open Dore, a website of the Dore Village Society. Retrieved on May 29, 2005.
^ Map of the Dore area in 1894