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Facts About Doncaster
Doncaster ( or ) is a large market town in South Yorkshire, England. Together with its surrounding suburbs and settlements, the town forms part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, which had a mid-2016 est. population of 306,400. The town itself has a population of 109,805 The Doncaster Urban Area had a population of 158,141 in 2011 and includes Doncaster and neighbouring small villages. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, Doncaster is about 17 miles (30 km) north-east of Sheffield, with which it is served by an international airport, Doncaster Sheffield Airport in Finningley. The metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, as the county town, Doncaster, and Rotherham, were created in 1974, and incorporated with the city of Sheffield into the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire.
