Brierley
Brierley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
Brierley is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with West Yorkshire, it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road, and is less than 2 miles (3 km) to the south west of Hemsworth.
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Worth seeing in and around Brierley
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Grimethorpe Hall
Grimethorpe Hall is a manor house in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England. Built circa 1670 for Robert Seaton, it is thought to be in the style of York architect Robert Trollope.
1.4 km · house in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Kinsley Greyhound Stadium
Kinsley Greyhound Stadium is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing stadium situated on Wakefield Road in Kinsley, West Yorkshire, England.
3.6 km · Greyhound racing stadium in England · Wikipedia - 03Hodroyd Hall
Hodroyd Hall at South Hiendley in the parish of Felkirk near Barnsley in West Yorkshire, England is an Elizabethan manor house currently used as 3 dwellings. It is Grade II listed.
2.6 km · house in South Hiendley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brierley
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 65 km · East Midlands (EMA), 85 km
- Stations
- Hemsworth bus station, 2.8 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Brierley58 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Brierley73 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Brierley107 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brierley
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brierley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.
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Next door to Brierley
Brierley is 24 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hemsworthtown in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England2.7 km
- South Hiendleyvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK1.9 km
- Ryhillvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.8 km
- Cudworthurban village in South Yorkshire, England2.8 km
- Grimethorpevillage in South Yorkshire, UK2.8 km
- Shaftonvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km