Short Wood

Short Wood is a forest in Barnsley, England. Short Wood is situated nearby to the village Upper Hoyland, as well as near Birdwell.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elsecar railway station and Birdwell Obelisk.

Elsecar railway station

Railway station

Photo: Captain Scarlet, CC BY 2.5.

Elsecar railway station is a railway station serving the village of Elsecar in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the Penistone Line and Hallam Line served by Northern Trains.

Lowe Stand

Ruins

Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lowe Stand is an 18th-century folly built for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and likely originally intended as a hunting lodge. It is situated in the South Yorkshire town of Hoyland, 5 miles south-east of Barnsley.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hoyland and Wombwell.

Hoyland

Town

Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hoyland is a town and district in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The town has also been known as Nether Hoyland. When the urban district council was formed the name used was Hoyland Nether Urban District Council.

Wombwell

Town

Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wombwell is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. In the 2011 census, data for the town was split between the ward of Wombwell and small sections that fell into the wards of Darfield and Stairfoot.

Worsbrough

Village

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Worsbrough is a suburban village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It forms a suburban area of Barnsley and until 1974, had its own urban district council in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Short Wood

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

53.512° or 53° 30′ 43″ north

Longitude

-1.4641° or 1° 27′ 51″ west

Open location code

9C5WGG6P+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 294175964

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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