Ring Wood

Ring Wood is a forest in Penistone, Barnsley, England. Ring Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Hill Side, as well as near the locality Quakers‘ Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Penistone railway station and Midhope Reservoir.

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.

Midhope Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Dave Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Midhope Reservoir is an upland body of fresh water that impounds moorland streams and overflows via Hagg Brook into the Little Don River 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.

Oxspring

Village

Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oxspring is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,048, increasing to 1,225 at the 2011 Census.

Ring Wood

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

53.5102° or 53° 30′ 37″ north

Longitude

-1.6578° or 1° 39′ 28″ west

Open location code

9C5WG86R+3V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 276193244

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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