Oxspring
Oxspring is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.
Oxspring is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,048, increasing to 1,225 at the 2011 Census. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Clays-Green, Roughbirchworth and Storrs. It is situated on the River Don with the main village being between the Sheffield Road (B6462) and the route of the Trans Pennine Trail. On the other (NE) side of the river is the A629, part of which is called Oxspring Lane, indicating the position of the original hamlet .
The parish has a post office, a combined C of E church and community hall, St Aidan's, a primary school and three public houses, the Waggon and Horses on the B6462, The Smithy Arms on Bower Hill and the Travellers Inn on the A629. There is a small amount of industry at the north west end.
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Worth seeing in and around Oxspring
6 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.
- 01Penistone
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.
2.6 km · market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Stocksbridge Town Hall
Stocksbridge Town Hall is a municipal building in Manchester Road in Stocksbridge, a town in South Yorkshire in England. The town hall, which was previously the offices and meeting place of Stocksbridge Urban District Council, is now the home of Stocksbridge Town Council as well as other community organisations.
3.6 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 03Penistone 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.
2.6 km · municipal building in Penistone, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Penistone 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.
2.6 km · railway viaduct in Penistone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Penistone 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.
2.6 km · community cinema and theatre in Penistone near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 06Saint 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
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Getting to Oxspring
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 39 km · Manchester (MAN), 49 km · East Midlands (EMA), 78 km
- Stations
- Penistone railway station, 2.3 km · Silkstone Common railway station, 3.1 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Oxspring43 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £4.5–6
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Oxspring69 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–10
- Liverpool → Oxspring92 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–14
- 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 Oxspring
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 Oxspring. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.
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Oxspring is 17 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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