SILKSTONE: Barnsley Parish #16 of 17

Today we're in the penultimate Barnsley parish, and this one's perhaps the most tourist-y of the lot so far. There's so much to say about this place, I already know before the video is even viewed by anyone that this one's missing some things. It's not fantastically large, but what it is, is crammed full of things to see and indeed, do.
Located on the Western edge of Barnsley's unparished area, and to the West of the M1, this is the first place you'd come to if you were heading out of South Yorkshire and into Greater Manchester via the Peak District. The foothills of the Pennines are not fully pronounced here as they are further West, which means this is relatively flat, certainly flatter than the likes of Oxspring, Dunford and Langsett.
Here you'll find a stream that's a putrid looking orange colour, polluted with iron oxide that runs from the hills and finds it's way into the water. Personally I think the ochre or "okker" as the locals call it, looks rather unique. The stream runs down the side of something called Pot House Hamlett, by far the biggest tourist attraction in the parish. It's not the only one though. There are two pubs, one with a really good menu according to their website, and a 200 year old trail that was used to transport coal via horse drawn wagons.
Moving South, there's a secondary village, home to a train station, and an extremely low tunnel that the vertically challenged amongst us would all manage to walk under, but everybody else will need to duck. Speaking of tunnels, that trail I mentioned used to have a tunnel which has been built over.
There's plenty more to see in this video and plenty more I haven't covered, but this is my bash at the parish of SILKSTONE.
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My name is Andy. I am armed with a car, a GoPro and an unhealthy amount of time on my hands.
Join me as I try to visit every single parish in the borough of Barnsley. There are 17. Here's the SIXTEENTH one - Silkstone.
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Huskar Pit Disaster:
penistonearchive.co.uk/huskar...
visitpenistone.co.uk/see_do_hi...
All Saints Church:
www.explorechurches.org/churc...
Silkstone Beck:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=i...
Pot House Hamlet:
www.pothousehamlet.co.uk/
The Waggonway Trail:
visitpenistone.co.uk/see_do_hi...
The Bells:
www.thebellssilkstone.co.uk/a...
Silkstone Parish Council:
www.silkstoneparishcouncil.gov...
Dearneside:
www.coop.co.uk/store-finder/S...
Silkstone Primary:
www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk/sc...
The Red Lion:
whatpub.com/pubs/BAR/167/red-...
Zoopla:
www.zoopla.co.uk/house-prices...
War Memorial:
www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk...
Silkstone Common Station:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silks...
The Station Inn:
whatpub.com/pubs/BAR/205/stat...
Nabs Wood:
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visi...
Methodist Church:
www.myprimitivemethodists.org...
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[@problemchild1976]

Grew up in silkstone not far from the church between 1990 and 1996. The history of the Huskar Pit Memorial and how the local disaster changed the whole cola mining industry is monumental. Learnt all about it and Silkstone J&I school where the head was Mr Fleming! The pharmacy used to be a bakery/sweet shop and a hairdressers. Pot House Hamlet used to be Tom's nursery. The stones on the ground on the wagon way held the rails that the pony's pulled the coal wagons along.

[@leonagreen4910]

Yes the old building did used to be a Chapel. When we were kids, we used to scare each other saying there was a ghost of a bride and groom in there who died when the roof collapsed on them and at midnight you could hear the organ playing 😂👻

[@TheVillageIdiot]

That's a nice little anecdote, might have to use that in the roundup vid :D

[@problemchild1976]

Yeah and just to the side was the old brothers place that was the pawn brokers (1990 ish) which then was sold and demolished to build the first set of new houses before the big estate there was built and we moved from up the top end of the village where the tour ends (Whinmoor Ct) down the Huskar Close on that new estate

[@pankajbhattu8908]

i go to silkstone state school

[@rodstuart2419]

Nice one, Andy. The white background on the captions is a definite improvement.

[@TheVillageIdiot]

Glad you like them! I was hoping they would work and clearly they do so they're here to stay!