Crow Edge

Crow Edge, Barnsley
Clay pit, off the A616
Crow Edge, Barnsley Location within South Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough	Barnsley
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Sheffield
Postcode district	S36
Dialling code	01226
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Penistone and Stocksbridge

Crow Edge is a hamlet in Dunford civil parish,[1] situated on the A616, two miles southeast of Hepworth, West Yorkshire in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

Industry

Since about 1857[2] Crow Edge has been home to the Hepworth Iron Company's coal mines, fire clay pits and clay products works,[3] later Hepworth Building Products Ltd.'s pipe works. From 2005 this has been part of the Dutch Wavin Group.[4] In 2013, 50 acres of their site was sold to the British company R. Plevin and Sons Ltd. Thereby making the site, the largest waste wood recycling facility in the United Kingdom.[5]

Rail

From 1846 to 1950 Hazlehead Bridge railway station, on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway 's Woodhead Line, provided a rail link for passenger traffic by bus service to Huddersfield, via Crow Edge and Honley.[6]
From 1857 to 1960 there was goods traffic on the mineral line from Hazlehead Bridge to Crow Edge, where the Hepworth Iron Company had an ironworks, collieries, coke ovens and a fireclay quarry.[7] [8] [9]

Main article: Hazlehead Bridge railway station

References

1. "Dunford Parish Council". Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. Archived from the original on 9 November 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
2. "Hepworth Iron Co". Grace's Guide. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
3. "Hepworth Iron Co. Ltd". Durham Mining Museum. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
4. "Wavin, History, Holding Company". www.wavin.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
5. "Plevin, News, Plans for UK's Largest Waste Wood Recycling Centre". www.plevin.co.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
6. Dow, George (1959). Great Central, Volume 1 (The Progenitors 1813-1863). London: Locomotive Publishing Co. pp. 51, 82. ISBN 0-7110-1468-X.
7. Dow, George (1959). Great Central, Volume 1 (The Progenitors 1813-1863). London: Locomotive Publishing Co. p. 127. ISBN 0-7110-1468-X.
8. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 116. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
9. Huddersfield Daily Examiner , Monday 11 April 1960.

External links

Media related to Crow Edge at Wikimedia Commons

• Hepworth Iron Co. Ltd. at Durham Mining Museum
• Hepworth Iron Co at Grace's Guide