Penistone, Barnsley

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Penistone is a town in Barnsley

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Penistone within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Penistone in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Penistone, market town, par., and township with ry. sta., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Don, 124 miles NW. of Sheffield and 170 miles NW. of London par., 22,776 ac., pop. 9094; town and township, 1133 ac., pop. 2254; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Market-day, Thursday. There are large steel works, steam sawmills, and a brewery. Stone quarries and collieries are in the neighbourhood. Formerly the town had some trade in woollen goods, but the industry has disappeared. A, stone viaduct, with 29 arches and 76 ft. in height, passes I through the estate of Water Hall; it is on the line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

Penistone in the Domesday Book

A village in Staincross hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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