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Orgreave

Orgreave is a village and civil parish on the River Rother in South Yorkshire.

Orgreave
Orgreave · Phil Sangwell from United Kingdom
The place

Orgreave is a village and civil parish on the River Rother in South Yorkshire. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, about 4.5 miles (7 km) east of the centre of Sheffield and a similar distance south of the centre of Rotherham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Orgreave

10 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
    Intake Cemetery

    Intake Cemetery is one of the city of Sheffield's many cemeteries. The cemetery, located at Mansfield Road, Intake, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, covers 12 acres, with the first interment taking place on 16 February 1880.

    3.1 km · cemetery in Sheffield, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Catherine of Siena, Richmond

    St Catherine of Siena is an Anglican church in the Richmond district of Sheffield in England.

    2.5 km · church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Helen, Treeton

    The Church of St Helen is the parish church in the village of Treeton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Sheffield.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed church in Treeton, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Sheffield

    St Mary's Church in Handsworth, South Yorkshire, is a Church of England parish church about 3+1⁄2 miles east of the centre of Sheffield, England.

    800 m · church in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Catcliffe Glass Cone

    The Catcliffe Glass Cone is a glass cone in the village of Catcliffe in South Yorkshire, England. It is the oldest surviving structure of its type in Western Europe, and it is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument.

    2.6 km · Grade I listed building in Catcliffe, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beighton

    The Church of St Mary the Virgin is situated in Beighton, a suburb of the City of Sheffield, England. It is located just off High Street, it is the parish church for the parish of Beighton and a Grade II* listed building.

    3.6 km · church in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Gleadless War Memorial

    The Gleadless War Memorial is a Grade-II listed war memorial located on Hollinsend Road at Gleadless, Sheffield. The statue, which depicts a life size sandstone British soldier dressed in a First World War uniform, was put in place during the 1920s.

    4 km · war memorial in Gleadless, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hackenthorpe Hall

    Hackenthorpe Hall is a 17th-century manor house located in Hackenthorpe, Sheffield, England. The building dates back to 1653, and was built by John and his wife Alice Newbould, and was the historic residence of the Hounsfield family thereafter.

    2.7 km · house in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Christ Church

    Christ Church is a church situated in Hackenthorpe, a suburb of the City of Sheffield. It is located on Sheffield road, and was built in 1899.

    3 km · church in Hackenthorpe, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Crystal Peaks

    Crystal Peaks is a shopping centre and retail park in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Established in 1988, the centre attracts around 11 million visitors a year.

    3.5 km · shopping mall in Sheffield, England · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Orgreave

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km · East Midlands (EMA), 60 km · Manchester (MAN), 60 km
Stations
Sheffield City Airport & Heliport, 2.9 km · Darnall railway station, 3 km · Woodhouse railway station, 1.3 km · Beighton railway station, 3.3 km · Crystal Peaks bus station, 3.4 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Orgreave
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Orgreave
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Orgreave
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Orgreave

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.

From Wikivoyage: Sheffield, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    298 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    331 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    345 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    380 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    407 km

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

Around it

Next door to Orgreave

Orgreave is 6 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brinsworthvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Catcliffevillage in South Yorkshire, UK2.5 km
  • Aston cum Aughtoncivil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England3.7 km
  • Treetonvillage in South Yorkshire, UK2.2 km
  • Swallownestvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Handsworthsuburb of south eastern Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, England1.8 km