Green Moor

Green Moor is a village near Wortley in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, in the parish of Hunshelf. Green Moor used to be a stone quarry in the last century but has since become a predominantly commuter and retirement village.

Type: Village
Description: hamlet in South Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as: “Greenmoor”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Stocksbridge Town Hall and Wortley Top Forge.

Stocksbridge Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Dave Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stocksbridge Town Hall is a municipal building in Manchester Road in Stocksbridge, a town in South Yorkshire in England. The town hall, which was previously the offices and meeting place of Stocksbridge Urban District Council, is now the home of Stocksbridge Town Council as well as other community organisations.

Wortley Top Forge

Museum

Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks dating from the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity in the fourteenth century.

Saint John’s, Deepcar

Church

Photo: Richard Sockett, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Saint John’s, Deepcar is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stocksbridge and Deepcar.

Stocksbridge

Town

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stocksbridge is a town and civil parish, it is encircled to the north and east by the southern edge of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, although since 1974 it lies within the borders of the City of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, England.

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.

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 5 miles from the centre of Barnsley, the nearest major town.

Green Moor

Categories: hamlet and locality
Location: Hunshelf, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.49085° or 53° 29′ 27″ north

Longitude

-1.57835° or 1° 34′ 42″ west

Elevation

830 feet (253 metres)

Open location code

9C5WFCRC+8M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 247488829

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

12265285

Wikidata ID

Q5602882

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to Polish—“Green Moor” goes by many names.

French: “Green Moor”
Polish: “Green Moor”

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