Hoober Stand
Hoober Stand is a 30-metre-high tower and Grade II* listed building on a ridge in Wentworth, South Yorkshire in northern England. It was designed by Henry Flitcroft for the Whig aristocrat Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Earl of Malton to commemorate the quashing of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.Photo: John Clive Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ionic Temple At West End Of South Terrace and Needle’s Eye.
Ionic Temple At West End Of South Terrace
Historic building
Photo: Paul Brooker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ionic Temple At West End Of South Terrace is a historic building, which is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Hoober Stand.
Needle’s Eye
Tower
Photo: Ozankk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Needle's Eye is a 14-metre pyramid Grade II* listed building which is situated in Wentworth, South Yorkshire in northern England. Needle's Eye is one of several follies in and around Wentworth Woodhouse park; the others include Hoober Stand and Keppel's Column. Needle’s Eye is situated 3,800 feet west of Hoober Stand.
The Rockingham Mausoleum
Tomb
Photo: Tony Bacon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Rockingham Mausoleum, Wentworth, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England is a cenotaph commemorating Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who was Prime Minister at the time of his death in 1782. The Rockingham Mausoleum is situated 1 mile south of Hoober Stand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wentworth and Abdy.
Wentworth
Village
Photo: John Clive Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wentworth is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. The village is surrounded by the very urbanised areas of Hoyland Nether, Barnsley.
Abdy
Hamlet
Photo: Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abdy is a hamlet in South Yorkshire, England. Abdy is located about 2 miles west of Swinton. The earliest reference to Abdy is in the 13th century in the cartulary of Monk Bretton Priory.
West Melton
Village
Photo: Richard Whitham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Melton is a former mining village in the Rotherham district, in South Yorkshire, England. It lies between Wath upon Dearne and Brampton Bierlow, roughly 5 miles north of Rotherham and 5 miles south-east of Barnsley. West Melton is situated 2 miles northeast of Hoober Stand.
Hoober Stand
- Type: Tower
- Description: tower in Wentworth, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Categories: observation tower, folly, building, and historic site
- Location: Brampton Bierlow, Rotherham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.48205° or 53° 28′ 55″ northLongitude
-1.38748° or 1° 23′ 15″ westHeight
98 feet (30 metres)Open location code
9C5WFJJ7+R2OpenStreetMap ID
way 669331971OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=follyOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q5897380
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Hoober Stand” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “হুবার”
- Chinese: “胡伯斯坦”
- French: “Hoober”
- German: “Hoober Stand”
- Gujarati: “હૂબર સ્ટેન્ડ”
- Japanese: “フーバー”
- Kannada: “ಹೂಬರ್ ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Korean: “후버”
- Lithuanian: “Huberas”
- Portuguese: “Hoober Stand”
- Russian: “Хубер-Стенд”
- Spanish: “Hoober Stand”
- Tamil: “ஹூபேர் ஸ்டான்ட்”
- Telugu: “హుబర్ స్టాండ్”
- Urdu: “ہووبیر اسٹینڈ”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hoober Plantation and Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society Observatory.
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