Major Wood

Major Wood is a forest in Brierley, Barnsley, England. Major Wood is situated nearby to the village Ardsley, as well as near the hamlet Edderthorpe.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monk Bretton Priory and Carlton Main Brickworks.

Monk Bretton Priory

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Monk Bretton Priory is a ruined medieval priory located in the village of Lundwood, and close to Monk Bretton, South Yorkshire, England.

Carlton Main Brickworks is a 15.5 hectare geological site of Special Scientific Interest in South Yorkshire. It opened alongside Grimethorpe colliery in the mid-1890s, and has been producing quality bricks for well over a century.

Oakwell

Stadium

Photo: Martin Thirkettle, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports ground in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England used by Barnsley Football Club for home fixtures, and those of their reserves.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wombwell and Cudworth.

Wombwell

Town

Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wombwell is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield and Stairfoot.

Cudworth

Town

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cudworth is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 10,977 in the 2011 Census. The modern village is part of the Cudworth ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and has a mix of housing types with a great many developments from the inter-war and post-war periods.

Stairfoot

Suburb

Stairfoot is a ward in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It is perhaps so named because it lies at the bottom of a valley in between the undulations of two small hills on the old road from Barnsley to Doncaster.

Major Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Brierley, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.5539° or 53° 33′ 14″ north

Longitude

-1.4063° or 1° 24′ 23″ west

Open location code

9C5WHH3V+HF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1449901399

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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