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Wombwell

WOMBWELL, an urban district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, 4 m. S.E. of Barnsley on the L.M.S. and L.N.E. railways. Pop. (1931) 18,365. The population is em ployed chiefly in the extensive collieries.