Silkstone Tunnels

Silkstone Tunnels is in Silkstone, Barnsley, England. Silkstone Tunnels is situated nearby to the memorial Huskar Pit, as well as near the forest Nether Royd Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Huskar Pit and Silkstone Common railway station.

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.

Silkstone Common railway station

Railway station

Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Silkstone Common railway station is situated 2,200 feet northwest of Silkstone Tunnels.

Church of All Saints, Silkstone

Church

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Church of All Saints, Silkstone is situated 1¼ miles north of Silkstone Tunnels.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Silkstone Common and Silkstone.

Silkstone Common

Village

Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Silkstone Common is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is to the south of Silkstone.

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.

Hood Green

Village

Photo: Wendy North, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Silkstone Tunnels

Type: Sign
Categories: information and tourism
Location: Silkstone, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.53204° or 53° 31′ 55″ north

Longitude

-1.55477° or 1° 33′ 17″ west

Open location code

9C5WGCJW+R3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6627920199

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Nether Royd Wood and Site Of Huskar 1838 Day Hole.

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