Towngate

Towngate is an electrical substation in Penistone, Barnsley, England. Towngate is situated nearby to the church Thurlstone Providence Baptist Chapel, as well as near the playground Westfield Avenue Play Area.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Penistone Town Hall and St Mary, Penistone.

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. Penistone Town Hall is situated 1 mile east of Towngate.

St Mary, Penistone

Church

Photo: Hassocks5489, CC0.

St Mary, Penistone is a church, which is situated 3,800 feet east of Towngate.

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. Penistone railway station is situated 1¼ miles east of Towngate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thurlstone and Millhouse Green.

Thurlstone

Village

Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thurlstone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Penistone, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Originally it was a small farming community.

Millhouse Green

Village

Millhouse Green is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley on the north banks of the River Don to the west of Penistone in the English county of South Yorkshire.

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.

Towngate

Type: Electrical substation
Categories: building and industry
Location: Penistone, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.52951° or 53° 31′ 46″ north

Longitude

-1.65074° or 1° 39′ 3″ west

Open location code

9C5WG8HX+RP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 954663250

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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