Dore

: ''For other uses, see Dore (disambiguation).'' Dore () 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 Party (UK) councillor. ==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. This, therefore, was a pass by which one travelled between the two kingdoms The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle contains the earliest written record of Dore, recording that in 827 (probably actually 829) Egbert of Wessex of Wessex led his army to the village to receive the submission of the Northumbrian army, thereby becoming the first monarch of England: :''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.'' A plaque commemorating this event was erected on the village green in 1968. Christ Church Dore was built in 1828 and Dore became a separate parish in 1844. Dore remained a small village, having a population of just 500 in the 19th century, until it was annexed by Sheffield in 1934. ==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 [http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Anglo/ Berkeley Digital Library] and [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/657 Project Gutenberg]. * * Districts of SheffieldHistory of Sheffield

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Words begining with Dore:

Dore
Dor�
Doreen
Doreen,_Victoria
Doreen_Bird
Doreen_Chanter
Doreen_Chanter
Doreen_DeSain
Doreen_DeSain
Doreen_Dodick
Doreen_Elizabeth_Massey
Doreen_Elizabeth_Massey,_Baroness_Massey_of_Darwen
Doreen_Mantle
Doreen_Massey
Doreen_Valiente
Doreen_Valiente
Doreen_Valiente/Temp
Doreen_Wilber
Dorel_Industries
Doremus_Jessup
Dorestad
Dores_do_Rio_Preto,_ES,_Brazil
Doreterna
Dorethea_Dix
Dorette_Corbey
Dorey
Dore_(disambiguation)
Dore_and_Totley
Dore_and_Totley
Dore_Gold
Dore_Gold
Dore_railway_station
Dore_Schary