Dinnington St John’s Town Council

Dinnington St John’s is an attractive and popular Parish with a strong sense of identity, based on its past and shaped by major recent developments. It is located towards the south edge of the administrative area of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and in the County of South Yorkshire.

Up to the 20th Century, the Parish was made up of a number of small isolated farming settlements, the main one being Dinnington. It was the sinking of the Dinnington Main Colliery in 1905 however, that led to the real growth of the settlement. The census of 1911 shows a twenty-fold increase in population since 1901, from 250 to 5,000. Dinnington continued to expand throughout the 20th century, largely through the growth of new house building following the Second World War.

The decline of the coal industry, which it traditionally looked to for jobs, prosperity and identity, had a devastating impact on the Parish from which it has struggled to recover. In recent years though, Dinnington has seen steady economic and social growth. It is home, for example, to over one hundred local business, but these have only partially filled the employment vacuum left by the closure of the mining and other industries locally

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A Evans

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