Arksey
Appearance
Arksey is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It was the birthplace of the children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd on 9 January 1890.
It is well known to most in Doncaster and the villagers for its level-railway crossing. The barriers can be down for up to nine hours a day when all durations are added together frustrating many people and severely effecting emergency service responses. The line is situated on the East Coast Mainline London to Scotland route.
External links
- Media related to Arksey at Wikimedia Commons
- Arksey in the Domesday Book