Wortley Hall and Village Barnsley tour quintessential England.

[@andywright3450]

Hi tim cracking video thanks mate looks a lovely village 💯

[@timawells]

Glad you enjoyed Andy. There was a wedding going off at the hall or I would have done a longer video.

[@deedahinkent]

Lovely Tim , glad you are showing the parts of South Yorkshire that still have something to offer a very nice video cheers😄👍

[@timawells]

Jon my videos can be very positive when there is something positive to show. I will do all I can to defeat the agenda. Back in Sheffield Saturday, but coming down from Tankersley to Chapeltown and Ecclesfield.

[@TheJuzi]

In the Wortley golf club bar there is a memorial to the fallen of the great war, ww1. EVERY man in the village died in the war.

[@timawells]

That is bad. I looked at Anston, we lost a lot but nothing as bad as that.

[@782sirbrian]

Wortley is in the Barnsley council area so is Bromley and Howbrook. The Mens club is a members club but not a posh exclusive one - I was once a member many years ago ! The club has an annual beer festival. Wortley Top Forge is a mile and half from the centre, an interesting place with water wheels and old machinery. It's worth a look round on the open days. St Leonards church has a peel of bells which are rung regularly. I believe the Hall is owned by the Labour party once home to The Earl of Wharncliffe who had family connections by marriage to Earl Fitzwilliam of Wentworth. The money made from land and Coal.

[@timawells]

Thanks for the info Brian.

[@leoncsorba9085]

Idylic little village ❤

[@timawells]

Yes and still a post office, shops and pubs. Not like the villages where I live Leon.

[@zoymills9868]

I used to know the head gardener at the Walled garden, I'm sure he told me the chimney in the cottages were to heat the walled garden behind when they were growing nectarines, peaches, apricots there. You had to keep the fires going in the cold months to protect them from frost. It does look like some sort of forge tho doesn't it. Maybe it was dual purpose? I love wortley, beautiful trees there. An amazing living wide girthed, hollow oak.

[@timawells]

It still has life. Most of our villages much bigger, no shops, pubs or people.

[@richardsharpe2966]

I was told half and half

[@timawells]

That explains it Richard.