Shafton
Shafton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,840, increasing to 3,447 at the 2011 Census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,400 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Shafton, South Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Outwood Academy Shafton and Cudworth Park.
Outwood Academy Shafton
School
Outwood Academy Shafton is a comprehensive secondary school with academy status, located in Shafton, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It is a mixed school for both girls and boys, ages 11–16, with over 1,000 pupils on roll.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Hiendley and Brierley.
South Hiendley
Village
South Hiendley is a village and civil parish near Barnsley but in the City of Wakefield council area in West Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,667, increasing to 1,817 at the 2011 Census.
Brierley
Village
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brierley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with West Yorkshire, it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road, and is less than 2 miles to the south west of Hemsworth.
Cudworth
Town
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cudworth is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 10,977 in the 2011 Census. The modern village is part of the Cudworth ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and has a mix of housing types with a great many developments from the inter-war and post-war periods.
Shafton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shafton, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.5941° or 53° 35′ 39″ northLongitude
-1.41033° or 1° 24′ 37″ westPopulation
3,400Elevation
269 feet (82 metres)Open location code
9C5WHHVQ+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 29797265OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638156Wikidata ID
Q2194166
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Shafton” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “শ্যাফটন”
- Bulgarian: “Шафтон”
- Cebuano: “Shafton”
- Chinese: “Shafton”
- Chinese: “沙夫頓”
- Chinese: “沙夫顿”
- Dutch: “Shafton”
- French: “Shafton”
- German: “Shafton”
- Gujarati: “શેફ્ટન”
- Irish: “Shafton”
- Japanese: “シャフトン”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಫ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “섀프턴”
- Ladin: “Shafton”
- Lithuanian: “Šaftonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shafton”
- Polish: “Shafton”
- Portuguese: “Shafton”
- Russian: “Шафтон”
- Spanish: “Shafton”
- Swedish: “Shafton”
- Tamil: “ஷாப்டன்”
- Telugu: “శాఫ్టన్”
- Turkish: “Shafton”
- Urdu: “شافٹن”
- “Shafton”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shafton”. Photo: Badics, CC BY-SA 3.0.