Pickliffes Rocher

Pickliffes Rocher is a forest in Oxspring, Barnsley, England. Pickliffes Rocher is situated nearby to the locality Black Moor Crossing, as well as near the village Oxspring.

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.

Wortley Top Forge

Museum

Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks dating from the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity in the fourteenth century.

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.