High Hoyland
High Hoyland is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
High Hoyland is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It lies to the west of Kexbrough in between there and Clayton West, and is located at approximately 53°35′10″N 1°35′30″W, at an elevation of around 200 metres above sea level. At the 2001 census it had a population of 142, reducing to 128 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around High Hoyland
8 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.
- 01Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
3.8 km · sculpture park in West Bretton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Cannon 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.
1.2 km · country house museum in Cawthorne, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of All Saints
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.
3.2 km · Anglican church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church In Bretton Park
St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
3.7 km · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Bretton Hall
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds from 2001 to 2007.
3.4 km · Georgian country house in West Yorkshire, England, now part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park · Wikipedia - 06Church of All Saints, Silkstone
The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Silkstone in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.
3.7 km · Anglican church in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Whistlestop Valley
Whistlestop Valley, formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a visitor attraction featuring a 3+1⁄2-mile long 15 in gauge minimum-gauge railway. The attraction's main site is in the village of Clayton West in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, which was first opened to the public on 19 October 1991, with a second, smaller site in a rural area near the village of Shelley.
2.8 km · narrow gauge heritage railway in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 08Pot House Hamlet
Silkstone glassworks is situated at Pot House Hamlet, a historic former industrial site in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England. A glass works was established at Silkstone around 1659 by John Pilmey, who had emigrated from France some years earlier.
3.8 km · industrial site in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to High Hoyland
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 53 km · East Midlands (EMA), 85 km
- Stations
- Darton railway station, 3.4 km · Clayton West railway station, 2.8 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → High Hoyland44 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–8
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → High Hoyland76 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £9–11
- Liverpool → High Hoyland94 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–14
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No local-transport research exists yet for High Hoyland
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 High Hoyland. 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 High Hoyland
High Hoyland is 23 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Silkstonevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Cawthornevillage in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom1.5 km
- Dartonvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Clayton Westvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Barughvillage in South Yorkshire, UK4 km
- Kexbroughvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km