Snailsden
Snailsden is a hamlet in Dunford, Barnsley, England. Snailsden is situated nearby to the hamlet Harden, as well as near the locality Shepley Ings.Places of Interest
Highlights include Winscar Reservoir and Boshaw Whams Reservoir.
Winscar Reservoir
Reservoir
Winscar Reservoir, is a compensation reservoir on the headwaters of the River Don in South Yorkshire, England. The reservoir is located at Dunford Bridge in Barnsley 25 miles northwest of Sheffield, and is just inside the Peak District National Park on the Pennine watershed.
Boshaw Whams Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boshaw Whams Reservoir is an upland waterbody near to the village of Hade Edge, in West Yorkshire, England. The site was originally built in 1840 to keep a supply of water for mill-owners downstream, but is now owned by Yorkshire Water but still used as a compensation reservoir for river water levels. Boshaw Whams Reservoir is situated 1½ miles north of Snailsden.
Woodhead Tunnel
Tunnel
The Woodhead Tunnels are three parallel trans-Pennine 3-mile-long railway tunnels on the Woodhead Line, a former major rail link from Manchester to Sheffield in Northern England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunford Bridge and Hade Edge.
Dunford Bridge
Hamlet
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Dunford Bridge is a remote hamlet in the civil parish of Dunford, in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, 1.3 miles from the border with West Yorkshire and 2.3 miles from the border with Derbyshire.
Hade Edge
Village
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hade Edge is a small village to the south of Holmfirth and south-west of Hepworth in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the parish of Holme Valley and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees.
Carlecotes
Village
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carlecotes is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Carlecotes is within Dunford civil parish. The village is situated at the eastern edge of the Peak District National Park, approximately 4 miles west from Penistone, and just over 1 mile north from the A628 road. Carlecotes is situated 2 miles east of Snailsden.
Snailsden
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Dunford, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.52445° or 53° 31′ 28″ northLongitude
-1.78462° or 1° 47′ 5″ westOpen location code
9C5WG6F8+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1495694298OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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