Black Moor

Black Moor is a locality in Hunshelf, Barnsley, England. Black Moor is situated nearby to the locality Snowden Hill, as well as near the hamlet Roughbirchworth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Penistone railway station and Holy Trinity Church.

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 railway station is situated 2 miles northwest of Black Moor.

Holy Trinity Church

Church

Photo: Martin Speck, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wortley Top Forge

Museum

Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks dating from the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity in the fourteenth century. Wortley Top Forge is situated 1½ miles southeast of Black Moor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxspring and Green Moor.

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.

Green Moor

Village

Green Moor is a village near Wortley in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, in the parish of Hunshelf. Green Moor used to be a stone quarry in the last century but has since become a predominantly commuter and retirement village.

Thurgoland

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thurgoland is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, on the A629 road. The village is 5 miles from the centre of Barnsley, the nearest major town.

Black Moor

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

53.50564° or 53° 30′ 20″ north

Longitude

-1.59429° or 1° 35′ 40″ west

Open location code

9C5WGC44+77

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2805803055

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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