Old Wentworth phone box finds new role as defib station


Wentworth Residents’ Association has been working hard for the past 12-months to get permission to transform the grade-II listed telephone box into a new home for the village’s defibrillator unit.
Chairman Paul Hunton said the life-saving equipment had now been moved from the Rockingham Arms, where it had been for more than four years, to the telephone box on Main Street.
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Hide Ad“It got installed two days before the Tour de Yorkshire,” said Mr Hunton.
“It’s very important to the village and now it is in a more central location — so it’s more easily accessible from the bottom part of the village.”
Funds for the £1,000 move and refurbishment were donated by Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estate, Hoober ward Cllrs David Roche, Denise Lelliott, Brian Steele and Wentworth Parish Council.