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Balby is a suburb of Doncaster and civil parish located to the south-west of the borough in the north of England. It is home to Balby Carr Community Academy. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the area of Balby stretches south of the town centre from the Balby Bridge area to Loversall, a small village bordering the new Woodfield Plantation residential development which is still expanding eastwards towards the Lakeside Village retail park. The area has a mixture of housing that has developed in accordance with growth patterns of other similar sized towns, with Victorian terraced housing nearer to the town centre and post-war built suburbs. The range of housing stock available means that there is a wide disparity in the socio-economic profile of the area with pockets of relative affluence of the newer suburbs seemingly juxtaposed with poorer areas, often social housing. Much of this social housing consisted of council houses, some of which has been subsequently sold off to become owner occupied under the Conservative Government's "Right to Buy" policy of the 1980s. The socio-economic profile of the area is said to be one of "developing working class" which is characterised by two-thirds of people being owner occupier of a two/three bedroom house with children who have left the family home or are still at school. Car ownership is relatively high and nearly 1 in 5 residents is aged between 20 to 35 years old. Council tax for nearly all bands was above the national average. In this regard it can be compared to urban areas such as Stoke-on-Trent, Derby and neighbouring Rotherham. Potteric Carr Nature Reserve is in Balby.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Potteric Carr Nature Reserve: Introduction )〕 ==History== The history of Balby dates back over 900 years with the first known record being in the ''Domesday Book'' with recorded names ' ''Ballesbi'' ' and ' ''Ballebi'' Balby is most probably named after someone of Norse origin, who settled there during the Viking period of the late 8th century to 11th century, who was called Bal. The name ''Ballesbi'' is derived from the Norse Bal (being the person) ''By'' meaning village and ''S'' denoting that the village belonged to him. Balby (which then included Warmsworth), was home to several of the early followers of the Quaker religion in England, including Thomas Aldham, whose son William was instrumental in opening the first permanent meeting house in the area, in Quaker Lane, Warmsworth. Balby has long been associated, along with other areas of Doncaster, with having a large Quaker community.〔History of Doncaster Friends (Retrieved 30 September 2011. )〕 More recently, the suburban town was a centre for steel and brass manufacture, especially at the well known Pegler's Brass Foundry and Bridon Ropery. In the early 20th century, St Catherine's Hospital was built in the south of Balby, near to the site of St. Catherines Well, an ancient site of healing and pilgrimage. It is now a hospital estate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Balby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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