Goldthorpe
Goldthorpe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England.

Goldthorpe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was anciently a small medieval farming village, Goldthorpe is recorded in the Domesday Book as part of the Manor of Bolton upon Dearne which was once owned by Roger de Busli. The town is split between the Dearne North and South wards of Barnsley MBC and had a population of 6,051 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Goldthorpe
5 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.
- 01Hickleton Hall
Hickleton Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian stately home in Hickleton, South Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles west of Doncaster. For more than 50 years it was a Sue Ryder Care home.
2.1 km · country house in South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Andrew's Church
The Church of St Andrew the Apostle is an active Church of England parish church located on High Street in Bolton upon Dearne, South Yorkshire, England. The building contains surviving pre-Conquest Anglo-Saxon stonework alongside Norman and late medieval additions.
1.7 km · church in Bolton upon Dearne, Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church, Barnburgh
St Peter's Church, Barnburgh is a parish church of the Church of England situated at the centre of the village of Barnburgh, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Famous for the legend of the 'Cat and Man', the church serves the communities of Barnburgh and Harlington.
2 km · Grade I listed church in Barnburgh, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton
St Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton, is a parish church of the Church of England in Hickleton, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire.
2.3 km · Grade I listed church in Hickleton, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St John and St Mary Magdalene Church, Goldthorpe
St John the Evangelist and St Mary Magdalene Church is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Sheffield in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
600 m · grade II listed church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Goldthorpe
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 44 km · Manchester (MAN), 68 km · East Midlands (EMA), 78 km
- Stations
- Bolton-on-Dearne railway station, 1.5 km · Thurnscoe railway station, 1.8 km · Goldthorpe railway station, 1 km · Frickley railway station, 3.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Goldthorpe33 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £4.5–6
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Goldthorpe61 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Goldthorpe65 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Goldthorpe
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 Goldthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Goldthorpe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Goldthorpe
Goldthorpe is 20 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Great Houghtonvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England4 km
- Barnburghvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Billingleyvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.3 km
- Adwick upon Dearnevillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Hickletonvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK1.2 km
- Thurnscoevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km