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'''Doncaster''' is a town and Metropolitan District in South [[Yorkshire]], [[England]]. Doncaster lies on the River Don, one of the oldest rivers in Europe, and was first settled by the Romans c. 80 A.D. and known as Danum ('place of the Danes').
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'''Doncaster''' is a city in the southern [[West Riding of Yorkshire|West Riding]] of the county [[Yorkshire]], [[England]]. It is the administrative centre for [[City of Doncaster Council]].
    
It became a significant market and [[horse racing]] centre and is known for the classic St. Leger race, named after the town's patron saint (believed to be an adaption of the [[Celts|Celtic]] deity Ledgerum, to whom an altar and various dedicatory tablets were recovered from the banks of the River Don by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1882).  
 
It became a significant market and [[horse racing]] centre and is known for the classic St. Leger race, named after the town's patron saint (believed to be an adaption of the [[Celts|Celtic]] deity Ledgerum, to whom an altar and various dedicatory tablets were recovered from the banks of the River Don by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1882).  
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