Thurgoland
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,990 residents
- Description: village in South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Thurgoland, Barnsley” and “Thurgoland, South Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church 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.
Bagger Wood
Forest
Bagger Wood is a 67.56 acres woodland in the English county of South Yorkshire, near to the village of Hood Green, about 4 miles south-west of Barnsley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Green Moor and Oxspring.
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.
Oxspring
Village
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oxspring is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,048, increasing to 1,225 at the 2011 Census.
Wortley
Village
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. Wortley is situated 1½ miles southeast of Thurgoland.
Thurgoland
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Thurgoland, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.50688° or 53° 30′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.56471° or 1° 33′ 53″ westPopulation
1,990Elevation
787 feet (240 metres)Open location code
9C5WGC4P+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29796256OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12265441Wikidata ID
Q2143555
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Turkish—“Thurgoland” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Тхурголанд”
- Cebuano: “Thurgoland”
- Chinese: “Thurgoland”
- Dutch: “Thurgoland”
- French: “Thurgoland”
- Irish: “Thurgoland”
- Ladin: “Thurgoland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thurgoland”
- Polish: “Thurgoland”
- Spanish: “Thurgoland”
- Swedish: “Thurgoland”
- Turkish: “Thurgoland”
- “Thurgoland”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thurgoland Crown Green Bowls Club and Thurgoland Village Hall.
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