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
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.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5964° or 53° 35′ 47″ northLongitude
-1.3415° or 1° 20′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C5WHMW5+H9OpenStreetMap ID
way 186096164OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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