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Thurnscoe

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

Thurnscoe
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The place

Thurnscoe is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The village falls within the Dearne North ward of the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, and along with Goldthorpe and Bolton upon Dearne is part of the Dearne Towns. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village is approximately 8.5 miles (14 km) from Barnsley and 8.5 miles (14 km) from Doncaster. It is served by Thurnscoe railway station with bus links provided by Stagecoach Yorkshire. In 2011, it had a population of 8,687.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Thurnscoe

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.

  1. 01
    Hickleton 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.

    2.9 km · country house in South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darfield in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Sheffield.

    3.8 km · Anglican church in Darfield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St 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.

    3.2 km · church in Bolton upon Dearne, Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hooton Pagnell Hall

    Hooton Pagnell Hall is a historic house in Hooton Pagnell, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, occupied by the Warde family since the 18th century.

    3.8 km · historic building in Hooton Pagnell, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St 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.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Barnburgh, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St 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.

    1.5 km · grade II listed church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Houghton

    St Michael and All Angels Church is the parish church of Great Houghton in South Yorkshire. The church is dedicated to St Michael, and was originally a private chapel and was built by Sir Edward Rodes, the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, who was a conspicuous Parliamentarian.

    2.5 km · church in Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St 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.

    2.9 km · Grade I listed church in Hickleton, South Yorkshire, England, UK · 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.

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Getting to Thurnscoe

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 42 km · Manchester (MAN), 67 km · East Midlands (EMA), 79 km
Stations
Bolton-on-Dearne railway station, 3 km · Thurnscoe railway station, 500 m · Goldthorpe railway station, 1.4 km · Frickley railway station, 2.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Thurnscoe
    32 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £4.5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Thurnscoe
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Thurnscoe
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Thurnscoe

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

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    318 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    368 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    396 km

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Around it

Next door to Thurnscoe

Thurnscoe is 21 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Great Houghtonvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England2.3 km
  • Billingleyvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Little Houghtonhamlet and civil parish in South Yorkshire, UK3.4 km
  • Hickletonvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Bolton upon Dearnevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3 km
  • Goldthorpevillage within the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England2.1 km