Scholes
Scholes is a small village in the Rotherham borough of South Yorkshire, England, near the southern boundary of Wentworth Woodhouse, formerly the family seat of the Earls Fitzwilliam.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Scholes, Rotherham” and “Scholes, South Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Scholes Coppice and Keppel’s Column.
Scholes Coppice
Forest
Scholes Coppice in an area of ancient woodland located to the north-west of Kimberworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England.
Keppel’s Column
Tower
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keppel's Column is a 115-foot tower Grade II* listed building between Wentworth and Kimberworth in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Keppel's Column is one of several follies in and around Wentworth Woodhouse park; the others include Hoober Stand and Needle's Eye.
Ionic Temple At West End Of South Terrace
Historic building
Photo: Paul Brooker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ionic Temple At West End Of South Terrace is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thorpe Hesley and Wentworth.
Thorpe Hesley
Village
Thorpe Hesley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, lying east of the M1 motorway at junction 35. The village has been included within the boundaries of Rotherham town since 1894, having previously been divided between the townships of Kimberworth and Wentworth.
Wentworth
Village
Photo: John Clive Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wentworth is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. The village is surrounded by the very urbanised areas of Hoyland Nether, Barnsley. Wentworth is situated 1½ miles north of Scholes.
Kimberworth
Suburb
Kimberworth is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is located in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, about 2 miles north-west of Rotherham town centre and 5 miles north-east of Sheffield. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Kimberworth is situated 2 miles southeast of Scholes.
Scholes
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Rotherham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.456° or 53° 27′ 22″ northLongitude
-1.41463° or 1° 24′ 53″ westElevation
312 feet (95 metres)Open location code
9C5WFH4P+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 713015634OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Scholes” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Scholes, South Yorkshire”
- Irish: “Scholes”
- Italian: “Scholes”
- Polish: “Scholes”
- Swedish: “Scholes, Rotherham”
- Swedish: “Scholes, South Yorkshire”
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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 “Scholes”. Photo: Roger May, CC BY-SA 2.0.