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Gunthwaite

Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.

The place

Gunthwaite is a hamlet in the civil parish of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is on the boundary of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gunthwaite

7 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.

  1. 01
    Penistone

    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. Historically in the ancient Wapentake of Staincross and the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is 7 miles west of central Barnsley, 17 miles north-east of Glossop, 15 miles north-west of Sheffield, 27 miles south-west of Leeds and 29 miles east of Manchester in the foothills of the Pennines.

    2.8 km · market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cannon Hall

    Cannon Hall is a country house between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland some 5 miles west of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Originally the home of the Spencer and subsequently the Spencer-Stanhope family, it houses collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware.

    3.7 km · country house museum in Cawthorne, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Penistone Town Hall

    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.

    2.7 km · municipal building in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Penistone Railway Viaduct on Penistone and Denby Dale Line

    Penistone Viaduct is a grade II listed railway viaduct that carries the Penistone Line over the River Don in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England. It is immediately north of Penistone station and was completed in 1850 to a design by John Hawkshaw.

    2.5 km · railway viaduct in Penistone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Penistone Paramount Cinema

    The Penistone Paramount Cinema is a community cinema and theatre in Shrewsbury Road in Penistone, near Barnsley, in the heart of the South Yorkshire Pennines. Besides the film releases, there are also live shows and monthly organ concerts.

    2.7 km · community cinema and theatre in Penistone near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone

    Saint John the Baptist Church, Penistone Parish Church, or Penistone Church is a Church of England church in the Parish of Penistone, near Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. The church is a Grade I listed building and is located in the centre of the town of Penistone.

    2.7 km · church in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Denby Dale Railway Viaduct

    Denby Dale Viaduct is a grade II listed railway viaduct in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, England. The curving viaduct carries the Penistone line over the Dearne valley in Denby Dale.

    3.1 km · railway viaduct in Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Gunthwaite

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · East Midlands (EMA), 82 km
Stations
Penistone railway station, 2.8 km · Denby Dale railway station, 3.2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gunthwaite
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £4.5–6
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gunthwaite
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • Liverpool → Gunthwaite
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gunthwaite

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 Gunthwaite. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    319 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    353 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    381 km

If you know how people move in Gunthwaite – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Gunthwaite

Gunthwaite is 22 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.