# Todwick

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{{short description|Village in South Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}
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|caption1= St Peter & St Paul's Church
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| static_image_caption     = 
| map_type                 = South Yorkshire
| official_name            = Todwick
| type                     = [Village](/source/Village)
| civil_parish             = Todwick
| metropolitan_borough     = [Rotherham](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Rotherham)
| metropolitan_county      = [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire)
| population               = 1,634
| population_ref           = (2011)
| region                   = Yorkshire and the Humber
| constituency_westminster = [Rother Valley](/source/Rother_Valley_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| post_town                = SHEFFIELD
| postcode_district        = S26
| postcode_area            = S
| dial_code                = 01909
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'''Todwick''' is a village in the [Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Rotherham) in [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), England.  It has a population of 1,637,<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790255 Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Rotherham''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613044518/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790255 |date=2011-06-13 }} Retrieved 2009-08-28</ref> reducing marginally to 1,634 at the 2011 Census,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11129756&c=Todwick&d=16&e=62&g=6355358&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1457610473835&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=10 March 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics|work= Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>  and contains a primary school (junior and infants). There is a village hall adjacent to the primary school, and this is on the corner of Kiveton Lane and The Pastures. 

The main street in Todwick is Kiveton Lane, which runs through the heart of the village, connecting it at one end to the [A57](/source/A57_road), towards [Dinnington](/source/Dinnington%2C_South_Yorkshire), [Anston](/source/Anston), [Thurcroft](/source/Thurcroft) etc., and at the other end to Station Road in [Kiveton Park](/source/Kiveton_Park). At the Kiveton Park end of Kiveton Lane there is a small marker, which was reputed to be the site of a look out post for [Robin Hood](/source/Robin_Hood). A plaque marks the spot behind a white gate just outside the village. Todwick can only be accessed by road or footpath; the nearest railway stations are [Kiveton Bridge](/source/Kiveton_Bridge_railway_station) and [Kiveton Park](/source/Kiveton_Park_railway_station) on the Sheffield to Lincoln line. Its location near to the [M1 motorway](/source/M1_motorway) gives the village's inhabitants good access to the country. Local towns provide many job opportunities for Todwick's working population.

Todwick has two parks; the smallest is alongside the church graveyard on Lindleys Croft, and has had in previous years, swings, a roundabout, climbing frame and a basketball court. The other park is known as "the rec" to locals. It has two football fields on it, as well as slides and roundabouts at the village end, and a bowling green and cricket field at the far end. The village's annual bonfire on [Guy Fawkes Night](/source/Guy_Fawkes_Night) is held here, where many locals gather for hot dogs, toffee apples, sparklers and fireworks, although this has not been organised for the past few years due to health and safety hazards.{{citation needed|date=January 2011}} Todwick Junior and Infant School was rated as satisfactory in an [Ofsted](/source/Ofsted) report during 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/download/%28id%29/118801/%28as%29/106907_336766.pdf|title=Inspection report: Todwick Junior and Infant School, 10–11 March 2010|publisher=Ofsted|date=2010-04-01|accessdate=2011-01-17}}</ref> 

In the 1960s, plans were made for an airport at Todwick to serve Sheffield and Rotherham. However, the plans were not realised, and Sheffield did not get its [own airport](/source/Sheffield_City_Airport_%26_Heliport) until the 1990s, which itself closed fully in 2008.

The name Todwick derives from the [Old English](/source/Old_English) ''Tata[wīc](/source/w%C4%ABc)'' meaning 'Tata's trading settlement'.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Yorkshire%20WR/Todwick|title=Todwick |website=Key to English Place-Names |publisher=The Institute for Name-Studies |access-date=29 October 2025}}</ref>

==See also==
*[Listed buildings in Todwick](/source/Listed_buildings_in_Todwick)

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:Villages in South Yorkshire
Category:Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham
Category:Civil parishes in South Yorkshire

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