Wortley
Wortley is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 579, increasing to 626 at the 2011 Census. Wortley is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as Wirtleie.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 687 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Wortley, South Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wortley Arms and Wortley Top Forge.
Wortley Top Forge
Museum
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks originally dating back to the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity as early as the fourteenth century.
Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
Historic site
Photo: Roger May, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads is a historic site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thurgoland and Deepcar.
Thurgoland
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thurgoland is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, on the A629 road. The village is less than 6 miles from Barnsley, the nearest major town. Thurgoland is situated 1½ miles northwest of Wortley.
Deepcar
Village
Deepcar is a village located on the eastern fringe of the town of Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, England. It is in the electoral ward of Stocksbridge and Upper Don, 10 miles south-west of Barnsley town centre and 9.5 miles approximately north-west of Sheffield city centre. Deepcar is situated 1½ miles southwest of Wortley.
Green Moor
Village
Green Moor is a village near Wortley in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, in the parish of Hunshelf and close to Penistone and Oxspring. Green Moor used to be a stone quarry in the last century but has since become a predominantly commuter and retirement village. Green Moor is situated 1½ miles west of Wortley.
Wortley
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Wortley, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.49141° or 53° 29′ 29″ northLongitude
-1.53765° or 1° 32′ 16″ westPopulation
687Elevation
722 feet (220 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WT9Open location code
9C5WFFR6+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 247489249OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Wortley” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ওর্টলে”
- Catalan: “Wortley”
- Cebuano: “Wortley”
- Chinese: “Wortley”
- Chinese: “沃特雷”
- Dutch: “Wortley”
- French: “Wortley”
- German: “Wortley”
- Gujarati: “વોર્ટલી”
- Irish: “Wortley”
- Japanese: “ウォートリー”
- Kannada: “ವೋರ್ಟ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “워틀리”
- Ladin: “Wortley”
- Lithuanian: “Vortlis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wortley (South Yorkshire)”
- Polish: “Wortley”
- Portuguese: “Wortley”
- Russian: “Уортли”
- Spanish: “Wortley”
- Swedish: “Wortley, South Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Wortley”
- Tamil: “ஒர்த்லே”
- Telugu: “వర్ట్లీ”
- Turkish: “Wortley, South Yorkshire”
- Urdu: “ورتلے”
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