Black Moor Crossing

Black Moor Crossing is a locality in Oxspring, Barnsley, England. Black Moor Crossing is situated nearby to the village Oxspring, as well as near the hamlet Roughbirchworth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Holy Trinity Church and Wortley Top Forge.

Holy Trinity Church

Church

Photo: Martin Speck, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

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 Crossing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxspring and Thurgoland.

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.

Thurgoland

Village

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Thurgoland is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, on the A629 road. The village is less than 6 miles from Barnsley, the nearest major town.

Green Moor

Village

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

Black Moor Crossing

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

53.5083° or 53° 30′ 30″ north

Longitude

-1.58728° or 1° 35′ 14″ west

Open location code

9C5WGC57+83

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2948054812

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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