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50-510: Deepcar is a village located on the eastern fringe of the town of Stocksbridge , South Yorkshire , England. It is in the electoral ward of Stocksbridge and Upper Don , 7 miles (11 km) approximately north-west of Sheffield city centre . The village lies south-west of the confluence of the River Don and Little Don River , and near to the junctions of the A616 road and A6102 roads , and
100-524: A head, end, or height) with the Old English suffix ing and the word tun (meaning a farmstead or village). Penistone has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place-names because it contains the letter sequence " penis "; however, those initial five letters are not pronounced like the name of the body part. In 1066, the township was owned by Ailric. It was razed in 1069 in the Harrying of
150-459: A historic organ concert at St Andrews Church. September. Penistone Show is an annual agricultural show. It is held on the second Saturday in September. As well as ordinary agricultural categories for sheep, cows, goats and poultry entries are received in horticulture , handicraft , show jumping , pigeons, dogs, photography and other categories. Penistone's Annual Competitive Music Festival
200-400: A major change in direction in the early 1860s when Fox realized that he could save large amounts of money by making his own steel for the wire, rather than buying it in. Furnaces and a rolling mill were installed, which in turn allowed the production of railway lines and springs. The business was incorporated into a limited company in 1871. Between 1872 and 1877 a railway line was built to link
250-470: A rough, home-spun cloth. In a law passed in 1601 ( 43 Eliz. 1 cap. 10 ) regulating the working of cloth, penalties were set out for weavers found to be making Penistone cloth of inferior quality. Until the eighteenth century, home weavers in the area brought their products to town for sale in an annual cloth fair but in 1768 a Cloth Hall (or "piece hall") was built by subscription to facilitate regular sales to wool merchants. Sheep sales have been held in
300-438: A route via Penistone, Dunford Bridge and the three-mile long Woodhead Tunnel . The Penistone to Huddersfield railway line opened on 1 July 1850. Penistone became a railway junction, with a depot for engineering trains. Penistone station had frequent train services to Manchester, Sheffield and Huddersfield. The 29-arch Penistone Viaduct was built in 1849 by Messrs. Ingham and Bower to a design by Sir John Hawkshaw . Stone
350-602: Is a not-for-profit community radio which broadcasts on 95.7 FM. Ofcom granted it a licence to broadcast in December 2007. Test transmissions began in May 2009 and the station was officially launched in June 2009, with its licence running for five years. The licence was renewed for a further five years, to finish in June 2019. Penistone is also served by commercial radio station Dearne FM , which broadcasts to Barnsley, Penistone and
400-735: Is among the highest market towns in Yorkshire . The Market Cruck Barn was officially opened on 21 July 2011. Penistone Farmers' Market is a monthly farmers' market on the second Saturday of every month held in the market place. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from the Emley Moor TV transmitter. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Sheffield on 104.1 FM, Capital Yorkshire on 105.6 FM, Heart Yorkshire on 106.2 FM, Hits Radio South Yorkshire on 102.9 FM and Penistone FM, formed in 2005,
450-458: Is currently used only for steel freight trains. Proposals are regularly made to re-open it as a passenger line. The British Steel Stocksbridge Band [sic] is credited with performing "Slaidburn" in the trailer of the 1997 film The Full Monty . Stocksbridge Engineering Steels Brass Band has since been renamed to Unite the Union Band. Deepcar Brass Band remains locally. Nearby Bolsterstone
500-542: Is home to a well-known male voice choir led by male vocalist Alan Rodgers, particularly noted for its performances of Sheffield local carols. Stocksbridge has a strong amateur theatre group called Steel Valley Beacon which produces Shakespeare and other plays every year. Mathcore band Rolo Tomassi were formed and are still based in Stocksbridge. Some of the Arctic Monkeys , and the vocalist of Bring Me
550-492: Is in June. It consists of two concerts, a parade and a gala. The first Penistone Folk Festival took place in June 2011 in the Market Barn. This is planned to be an annual charity event and occurs at around the same date as the earlier 'Penistone Sing', on the festival of St John, to whom the parish church is dedicated. Penistone Literary Festival ('Pen-Lit') was started in 2014. August. On Yorkshire Day , 1 August 2006,
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#1732791862972600-521: Is served by the local newspaper Look Local Newspaper . The town's local football club, Stocksbridge Park Steels , was founded in 1986 following the merger of Stocksbridge Works and Oxley Park FC. Their home ground is Bracken Moor, located at the eastern end of the town. The club plays in the Northern Premier League Division One East and also organises many youth teams, for ages 8 to 18. Stocksbridge Church
650-589: Is the coal measures of the South Yorkshire Coalfield, from which some coal was mined in the 19th century, and sandstone flags were quarried. Penistone has a thriving market, although smaller since the building of a Tesco supermarket in 2011, which reduced the market footprint. The cattle market, which was the centre of the farming livestock trade, and the Fur n Feathers market, have long since gone. At 747 feet (228 metres) elevation, Penistone
700-567: The 2010 general election when it became part of the newly created Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is responsible for local government issues and Penistone Town Council, based at Penistone Town Hall , is responsible for local issues. Penistone is situated on the south bank of the River Don . The parish, which included Gunthwaite , Hunshelf , Ingbirchworth , Langsett , Oxspring , and Thurlstone , covered 21,338 acres, mostly arable land and pasture and 2,000 acres of moorland. The underlying geology
750-524: The Liberty House Group , that the latter had purchased Tata's entire UK steelmaking operation for GBP 100 million. This has secured the continuation of steelmaking in the Stocksbridge valley. In May 2021 Liberty Steel Group put the Stocksbridge business up for sale, a consequence of the collapse of Greensill Capital in March 2021. The main road from Sheffield to Manchester passed through
800-675: The West Riding of Yorkshire , it lies just to the east of the Peak District . The town is located in the steep-sided valley of the Little Don River , below the Underbank Reservoir . It blends into the areas of Deepcar , Bolsterstone and the eastern end of Ewden valley around Ewden village, which are also within the civil parish. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 13,455. Until
850-966: The 1980s and 1990s, the Stocksbridge works was part of the United Engineering Steels group (a joint venture between British Steel and GKN) and was known as "Stocksbridge Engineering Steels". In 1999 the works were taken over by Corus and are part of the Corus Engineering Steels (CES) group. Although for several years Corus ran at a loss, it returned to profit, in part helped by a rise in demand for steel caused by Chinese economic activity. Steel manufacture in Stocksbridge had always been by melting iron and steel firstly in crucibles (from 1860), then Bessemer converters (from 1862) and Siemens Open Hearth Furnaces (from 1899 until 1968) and lastly Electric arc furnaces (from 1939 until 2005). Iron has never been produced from iron ore at Fox's, by any method. In October 2006, Corus
900-588: The Dearne Valley areas in South Yorkshire on the dedicated frequency of 97.1 FM. Test transmissions started in September 2003 on both 97.1 and the Barnsley and Dearne Valley frequency (102.0) before the station's official launch on 5 October 2003. The town is served by the local newspaper, Barnsley Chronicle . Penistone Grammar School was founded in 1392. Notable former pupils include
950-572: The Evangelist was opened in 1878. This South Yorkshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Stocksbridge Stocksbridge is a town and civil parish , in the City of Sheffield , in South Yorkshire , England. The town is approximately 9 miles (14 km) from Barnsley and 10 miles (16 km) from Sheffield . Historically part of
1000-646: The Horizon , are from Stocksbridge and attended Stocksbridge School. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from the Emley Moor and the local relay TV transmitters. Local radio stations are BBC Radio Sheffield on 104.1 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire on 102.0 FM, Heart Yorkshire on 107.7 FM, Capital Yorkshire on 105.1 FM, Hits Radio South Yorkshire on 102.9 FM and Penistone FM on 95.7 FM. The town
1050-769: The North following the Norman Conquest ; the Domesday Book described the settlement in 1086 as "waste". Sir Gyles Penyston ( fl. 13th century), whose family seat was in Cornwall (perhaps at Truro ) before his time, and who is an ancestor of the Penyston Baronets , was styled of Penyston , denoting that he resided in Penistone. The town was renowned for its Penistone cloth (or "forest white"),
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#17327918629721100-699: The Second World War, 'Sammy Fox's' Steelworks was kept busy as part of the war effort. During the Sheffield Blitz by the Luftwaffe, the bombers used the dam at the end of Stocksbridge as a turning point for their run back toward Sheffield. Following nationalisation in 1967, the British Steel Corporation split the stainless steel departments off into a separate business which by 2004 had become part of Outokumpu . During
1150-528: The UK, due, they said, to crippling electricity prices in the UK which are more than double the price in the European Union and in other competing countries, and to large volumes of cheap steel which are being exported to the west by China. If a buyer could not be found, then steelmaking in the Stocksbridge valley would finally end, after almost 160 years. On 9 February 2017 it was announced by Tata and by
1200-621: The United Steel Companies (USC) following the First World War . From then on the products of the USC sites were coordinated so that each works specialised in set products. Fox’s specialised in special steel produce such as spring steel and stainless steels. This developed into the manufacture of high-quality steel for the aviation industry. One specialised department assembled and tested springs for Rolls-Royce cars. During
1250-634: The area are operated by Stagecoach Yorkshire , South Pennine Community Transport, Globe Holidays (Barnsley) and TM Travel. Routes connect Penistone with Barnsley , Holmfirth , Sheffield , Stocksbridge and Thurgoland . Penistone was a parish in the wapentake of Staincross in the West Riding of Yorkshire and after 1837 was a member of the Wortley Poor law union . Penistone was in the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency until
1300-526: The blind mathematician Nicholas Saunderson , and Anne Campbell , who served as MP for Cambridge until May 2005. Most of the old school was demolished in 2011 and a new school built. Other local schools include St John's Primary School, Spring Vale Primary School and Thurlstone Primary School. Pancake Day . In the early 20th century it was the custom in the town for the church to ring a pancake bell on Shrove Tuesday . March. Penistone Arts Weeks returned in 2022. The annual Penistone Mayor's Parade Weekend
1350-623: The early 18th century, what is now Stocksbridge was a deciduously wooded valley, running from Midhopestones at its northwestern extremity to Deepcar at its southeastern end. A river, originally called the Hunshelf Water and later renamed the Little Don , ran through the valley. This river was also, unofficially, called the Porter, probably on account of its peaty colour. A dirt road, connecting Sheffield with Manchester , ran through
1400-570: The foothills of the Pennines . The town is frequently noted on lists of unusual place names . The highest point, Hartcliffe Tower , is 1,194 ft (364 m) above sea level and has views over the Woodhead bypass and the Dark Peak . The surrounding countryside is predominantly rural with farming on rich well-watered soil on mainly gentle slopes rising to the bleak moorland to the west of
1450-579: The former junction of the ' Woodhead Line ' (Sheffield to Penistone section, built for the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway ) and private Stocksbridge Railways ; the village was served by the Deepcar railway station from 1846 to 1959. The Deepcar archaeological site, which included a structure or 'house', dating to the mesolithic period, and ascribed to the Maglemosian culture
1500-406: The mill from their homes on the north side. This originally wooden structure, Stocks' Bridge, gave the place its name, not only because it was about the only thing there apart from the mill itself, but also because as a crossing place it appeared under that name on Thomas Jeffrey's map of 1772, so establishing itself as a place name. On various occasions, this bridge was destroyed by flooding, and it
1550-487: The mill outright from Joshua's son, Thomas Newton. Fox converted the place to use as a wire mill, and built much of the infrastructure of Stocksbridge, primarily to house his new workforce and to supply their needs. The wire was initially for textile pins, but around 1848 the business expanded to include wire for umbrella frames which led to Fox developing the “Paragon” umbrella frame in 1851. The business continued to expand, and extended into different products, but underwent
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1600-484: The now annual gathering of lord mayors , mayors and other civic heads from Yorkshire was held at Penistone. The day included a service at the parish church, a parade around the town, films and an evening of music at the Paramount Cinema and an exhibition at St John's Community Centre, and Hartcliff Tower was opened to the public. There were Morris dancers , a farmers' market , a shop-window competition and
1650-656: The station for a further 11 years when the line was closed controversially between Penistone and Hadfield in July 1981; the track was lifted several years later. The route of the track is now used as part of the Trans-Pennine Trail . Penistone railway station is on the Penistone Line , which provides passenger trains to Huddersfield , Barnsley and Sheffield . Services are generally hourly in each direction, operated by Northern Trains . Bus services in
1700-520: The surrounding areas of West Yorkshire and North Derbyshire. The place-name Penistone is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Pengeston(e) and Pangeston ; later sources record it as Peningston . It may mean "the farmstead at the hill called Penning", in reference to the high ridge immediately south of the town. This combines the Brittonic word penn (meaning
1750-511: The town dates from 1377. Penistone had a market for a long time before its royal charter was granted in 1699, although its historic livestock market was closed recently to make way for town centre re-development. A new landmark building has been built in Penistone for the Market Place. This is an oaken Cruck Barn and was built by Carpenter Oak of Totnes , Devon . The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway opened on 15 July 1845, on
1800-515: The town since before 1699, when the market received a royal charter and the area produced the now rare Penistone sheep . The town remained small until the coming of the railway in 1845, although several pre-19th century buildings survive. The oldest still standing is Penistone Church. This is the Grade I listed mediaeval parish church , St John the Baptist Church . The White Hart pub in
1850-756: The town until the A616 Stocksbridge bypass opened in 1988. The new road links the M1 motorway at Junction 35A (and J36) to the A628 (which is one of the main trans- Pennine routes from Sheffield to Manchester) bypassing the towns of Stocksbridge and Deepcar , diverting the steelworks traffic away from passing through the town. Stocksbridge has bus services that connect the town to Sheffield City Centre , Middlewood tram stop and Barnsley Interchange . The 57/57A (operated by Stagecoach Yorkshire ) runs every 30 minutes. The 57 serves Unsliven Bridge (the western part of
1900-602: The town) to Sheffield City Centre, and the 57A serves Stocksbridge Leisure Centre and Worrall to Sheffield City Centre. Service 201 (operated by South Pennine Community Transport) runs hourly connecting Stocksbridge to Chapeltown. Service 23/23A (South Pennine Community Transport ) connects Stocksbridge to Millhouse Green hourly, and Barnsley twice a day. Smaller services, such as the 34 and the 26 (also operated by South Pennine Community Transport), serve Northern College to Barnsley Interchange and Penistone, respectively. A railway line runs from Stocksbridge to Sheffield via Deepcar, but
1950-712: The town. Dry stone walls, small hamlets and farms surrounded by fields and livestock are synonymous with the area. The area is known for its rugged breed of sheep, the Whitefaced Woodland . The market town itself stands at its highest point around St Johns Church at around 820 ft (250 m) above sea level. However, the surrounding land rises well over 1,000 ft (300 m) towards Cubley and Thurlstone Moors and out towards smaller hamlets at Carlecotes, Victoria, Dunford and Crow Edge, elevated at points above 1,200 ft (370 m). There are several vantage points around Penistone that afford panoramic views of
2000-434: The woods adjacent to the river. There were a few stone houses in the valley and a sprinkling of farms on each hillside. In 1716 John Stocks, a local farmer and landowner, occupied a fulling mill halfway along the valley where a flood plain , created by meltwater at the end of the last ice age , extended southwest from the river. Here he reputedly built a footbridge over the river, perhaps so that his workforce could reach
2050-715: The works with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Deepcar railway station . This was the Stocksbridge Railway , which existed as a subsidiary company until 1992. Although the Sheffield to Manchester route via the Woodhead Tunnel was closed to traffic in 1981, a single-track section from Sheffield to Stocksbridge via Deepcar remains to serve the steel works. Samuel Fox & Co joined Steel, Peech and Tozer at Templeborough to form
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2100-457: Was created, governed by an elected local board. Such districts were converted into urban districts in 1894. The current Stocksbridge Town Hall was constructed in 1928. The district was merged into the City of Sheffield in 1974. The valley bottom today is almost entirely occupied by steel works. Samuel Fox acquired the old cotton mill in 1842, at first renting it from its then owner, Joshua Newton. Nine years later, in 1851, he purchased
2150-499: Was eventually replaced by a stone structure in 1812. In 1794 three businessmen, Jonathan Denton, Benjamin Grayson and Thomas Cannon, built a large cotton mill extremely close by, or possibly upon, the site of the original mill. The parish church of St Matthias was consecrated in 1890. Stocksbridge historically straddled the large parishes of Penistone and Ecclesfield . In 1872 a local government district called Stocksbridge
2200-538: Was excavated in 1962 close to the junction of the Don and Little Don at Wharncliffe Wood. ( grid reference SK 2920 9812 ). The site's culture has similarities to Star Carr in North Yorkshire, but gives its name to unique "Deepcar type assemblages" of microliths in the archaeology literature. A potential Romano-British settlement has also been identified near the river banks. The parish church of St John
2250-513: Was invested in boosting the site's ability to produce aerospace steel, and further developments were planned for 2013. In December 2015 Tata came under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office in connection with the alleged falsification of certificates guaranteeing the quality of its speciality steels. This was then followed in early 2016 by an announcement from Tata that they would be selling their entire steelmaking interests in
2300-462: Was obtained from Walk Mill Bank, Oxspring , and was conveyed by a tramway on the side of the River Don. The second and third arches of Penistone Viaduct collapsed on 2 February 1916, when heavy rain weakened the foundations; the driver and fireman of a stationary goods locomotive were able to jump clear and survive the collapse. Cracks in the parapet had been observed some days earlier. The viaduct
2350-667: Was repaired and was back in service in August of the same year. The town was served by the Woodhead Line between Manchester London Road and Sheffield Victoria . Following major investment, which started in 1935 but was delayed by the Second World War , the electrification of the railway was completed in 1954 and the line's power control centre was built adjacent to Penistone station. The building still stands and has been converted for commercial use. The Woodhead Line
2400-478: Was taken over by the Indian company Tata . Corus Engineering Steels (Stocksbridge site) was renamed Tata Steels Speciality. During the 2008 recession Stocksbridge works reduced its workforce and output, focusing on producing lower quantities of high-value product for the aerospace and oil and gas markets. After the recession the company returned to profitability and began investing once again. In 2011 £6.5 million
2450-550: Was the first main line railway in the UK to be electrified, but its once-pioneering 1500 V DC system became non-standard. Although the Beeching Report recommended the closure of the Hope Valley line and the retention of Woodhead services, the government chose to implement the opposite; Woodhead Line passenger services beyond Hadfield ended on 5 January 1970. Goods trains, mainly coal, continued to travel through
2500-727: Was the first to represent the town in the FA Cup , in 1910. Penistone Penistone ( / ˈ p ɛ n ɪ s t ən / PEN -iss-tən ) is a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley , South Yorkshire , England, which had a population of 24,760 at the 2021 census. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire , it is 8 miles (13 km) west of Barnsley , 17 miles (27 km) north-east of Glossop , 14.2 miles (23 km) north-west of Sheffield , 27 miles (43 km) south-west of Leeds and 29 miles (47 km) east of Manchester in
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