Silkstone Common
Silkstone Common is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is to the south of Silkstone.Places of Interest
Highlights include Silkstone Common railway station and Huskar Pit.
Silkstone Common railway station
Railway station
The present Silkstone Common railway station, which opened by British Rail on 14 May 1983 serves the village of Silkstone Common, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
Huskar Pit
Memorial
Huskar Pit was a coal mine on the South Yorkshire Coalfield, sunk to work the Silkstone seam. It was located in Nabs Wood, outside the village of Silkstone Common, in the then West Riding of Yorkshire.
Church of All Saints, Silkstone
Church
The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Silkstone in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds. The building is Grade I listed and dates back to at least the 12th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Silkstone and Dodworth.
Silkstone
Village
Dodworth
Village
Dodworth is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 5,976 at the 2021 Census.
Hood Green
Village
Hood Green is a small village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It is near the villages of Stainborough, Thurgoland and Silkstone Common and is within the Penistone and Stocksbridge parliamentary constituency. Hood Green is situated 1½ miles southeast of Silkstone Common.
Silkstone Common
- Type: Village with 2,950 residents
- Description: village in South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Silkstone, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.53541° or 53° 32′ 8″ north
Longitude
-1.5603° or 1° 33′ 37″ west
Population
2,950
Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)
Open location code
9C5WGCPQ+5V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Silkstone Common” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Silkstone Common”
- French: “Silkstone Common”
- Irish: “Silkstone Common”
- Polish: “Silkstone Common”
- Spanish: “Silkstone Common”
- Swedish: “Silkstone Common”
- Urdu: “سلک اسٹون کامن”
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