Husband Wood

Husband Wood is a forest in Woolley, Wakefield, England. Husband Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Woolley Grange, as well as near the village Staincross.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Darton railway station and All Saints Church, Darton.

Darton railway station

Railway station

Photo: DaveGorman, Public domain.

Darton railway station is a railway station in a large village of Darton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern Trains.

All Saints Church, Darton

Church

Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barnsley and Darton.

Barnsley is a large town in South Yorkshire in the north of England, nowadays a metropolis. It grew up as a linen-making town, but then in the 18th and 19th century made its living from coal-mining, glass-making and steel.

Darton

Village

Photo: DaveGorman, Public domain.

Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, on the border with West Yorkshire, England. At the time of the 2001 UK census, it had a population of 14,927, increasing to 21,345 for both Darton Wards at the 2011 Census.

Royston

Town

Photo: Chemical Engineer, Public domain.

Royston is a village within the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically, the village formed part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, but was incorporated into the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley in 1974 and is now on the border with West Yorkshire.

Husband Wood

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

53.5964° or 53° 35′ 47″ north

Longitude

-1.5229° or 1° 31′ 22″ west

Open location code

9C5WHFWG+HR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 911048170

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Woolley Grange and Staincross.

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