Ball Park Wood

Ball Park Wood is a forest in South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, Wakefield, England. Ball Park Wood is situated nearby to the village South Kirkby, as well as near the hamlet Brierley Gap.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moorthorpe railway station and Grimethorpe Hall.

Moorthorpe railway station

Railway station

Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.

Moorthorpe railway station serves the village of Moorthorpe and town of South Kirkby in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Wakefield Line and the Dearne Valley Line, 18+1⁄4 miles north of Sheffield and is served by Northern Trains.

Grimethorpe Hall

Historic building

Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Grimethorpe Hall is a manor house in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England. Built circa 1670 for Robert Seaton, it is thought to be in the style of York architect Robert Trollope.

Church of All Saints, South Kirby

Church

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hemsworth and South Elmsall.

Hemsworth

Town

Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census.

South Elmsall

Town

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

South Elmsall is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. South Elmsall lies to the east of Hemsworth. The town had a population in 2001 of 6,107, increasing to 6,519 at the 2011 Census.

Brierley

Village

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brierley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with West Yorkshire, it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road, and is less than 2 miles to the south west of Hemsworth.

Ball Park Wood

Type: Forest
Location: South Kirkby and Moorthorpe, Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.5964° or 53° 35′ 47″ north

Longitude

-1.3415° or 1° 20′ 30″ west

Open location code

9C5WHMW5+H9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 186096164

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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