Royd Wood

Royd Wood is a forest in Penistone, Barnsley, England. Royd Wood is situated nearby to the locality Hall Lane Top, as well as near Green Bottom Meadow.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Penistone railway station and Silkstone Common railway station.

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.

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.

Penistone Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Penistone Town Hall is a municipal building in Shrewsury Road in Penistone, a town in South Yorkshire, in England. It serves as the meeting place of Penistone Town Council.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penistone and Stocksbridge.

Penistone

Town

Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Penistone is a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 13,270 at the 2021 census.

Stocksbridge

Town

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stocksbridge is a town and civil parish, it is encircled to the north and east by the southern edge of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, although since 1974 it lies within the borders of the City of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, England.

Silkstone

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

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.

Royd Wood

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

53.5315° or 53° 31′ 53″ north

Longitude

-1.5969° or 1° 35′ 49″ west

Open location code

9C5WGCJ3+H6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 272823351

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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