Haigh Common

Haigh Common is a locality in Penistone, Barnsley, England. Haigh Common is situated nearby to the locality Hunger Hill, as well as near the village Hoylandswaine.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Penistone railway station and Penistone Town Hall.

Penistone railway station

Railway station

Photo: DaveGorman, Public domain.

Penistone railway station serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The current station, at the junction of the Woodhead Line and Penistone Line, opened in 1874; it replaced a station solely on the Woodhead Line, dating from the line's opening by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845.

Penistone Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Penistone Town Hall is a municipal building in Shrewsury Road in Penistone, a town in South Yorkshire, in England. It serves as the meeting place of Penistone Town Council.

Penistone Paramount Cinema

Movie theater

Photo: DaveGorman, Public domain.

The Penistone Paramount Cinema is a community cinema and theatre in Shrewsbury Road in Penistone, near Barnsley, in the heart of the South Yorkshire Pennines. Besides the film releases, there are also live shows and monthly organ concerts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hoylandswaine and Gunthwaite.

Hoylandswaine

Village

Photo: Chris Yeates, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hoylandswaine is a village in the civil parish of Penistone, in the Barnsley district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. In 2021 it had a population of 1038.

Gunthwaite

Hamlet

Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the boundary of Kirklees in West Yorkshire.

Penistone

Town

Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Penistone is a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 13,270 at the 2021 census.

Haigh Common

Type: Locality
Location: Penistone, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.54438° or 53° 32′ 40″ north

Longitude

-1.61307° or 1° 36′ 47″ west

Open location code

9C5WG9VP+QQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2776832853

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St. Johns Church and Hoylandswaine Primary School.

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