Silkstone Common
Silkstone Common is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is to the south of Silkstone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Silkstone Common railway station and Huskar Pit.
Silkstone Common railway station
Railway station
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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
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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
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Silkstone is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, around 4 miles west of Barnsley.
Dodworth
Village
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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 5,742, increasing to 5,900 at the 2011 Census.
Hood Green
Village
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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″ northLongitude
-1.5603° or 1° 33′ 37″ westPopulation
2,950Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)Open location code
9C5WGCPQ+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 269401026OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12265633Wikidata ID
Q7515287
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Silkstone Common” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Silkstone Common”
- French: “Silkstone Common”
- Irish: “Silkstone Common”
- Polish: “Silkstone Common”
- Spanish: “Silkstone Common”
- Swedish: “Silkstone Common”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Silkstone Common Methodist Church and Orchard Wood.
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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 “Silkstone Common”. Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.