: ''For other uses, see Dore_(disambiguation).''
'''Dore''' ({{gbmapping|SK311812}}) 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 councillor. It is served by Dore_railway_station on the Hope_Valley_Line.
==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, and it seems that Dore was a pass by which one travelled between the two kingdoms.{{fn|1}}
The ''Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle'' contains the earliest written record of Dore, recording that in 827 (probably actually 829) King Egbert of Wessex led his army to the village to receive the submission of King Eanred of Northumbria, thereby establishing his overlordship over the whole of Anglo-Saxon Britain:
:''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.''{{fn|2}}
It can therefore be argued that Egbert became the first king of England at Dore. 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.{{fn|3}} Dore remained a small village, having a population of just 500 in the 19th century, until it was annexed by Sheffield in 1934.{{fn|4}}
==References==
*{{fnb|1}} 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.
*{{fnb|2}} Extract from the Anglo-Saxon_Chronicle. Translations available at Berkeley Digital Library and Project Gutenberg.
*{{fnb|3}}{{Web reference | title=Dore History | work=Open Dore, a website of the Dore Village Society | URL=http://www.dorevillage.co.uk/ | date=May 29 | year=2005}}
*{{fnb|4}} {{GBvoss|txt=Map of the Dore area in 1894|e=430552|n=381247|cty=8}}
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