Silkstone
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Silkstone is a village in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, between the towns of Barnsley and Penistone.
The village has sporting facilities, in the shape of the Pavillion. It is host to both a football and cricket team, with both sports being played at junior and senior levels.
Silkstone is also twinned with Saint Florent-des-Bois in France.
[edit] History
The earliest known written record of Silkstone is the Domesday Book of 1086, when Silkstone is referred to as a part of the manor of Cawthorne:
In Calthorne (Cawthorne) Ailric had three carucates of land to be taxed and there may be two ploughs there. The same now has it of Ilbert; himself two ploughs there, and four villanes with two ploughs. There is a priest and a church, wood pasture two miles long and two broad; the whole manor three miles long and two broad. Value in King Edward’s time forty shillings, now twenty shillings. To this manor belongs Silchestone (Silkstone), one carucate and a half.
The church mentioned may be a predecessor of the current Church of All Saints, the parish church in Silkstone[1]. The present church building is Grade I listed and was constructed in the 12th century (with alterations/renovations in the 15th and 19th centuries)[2]. Silkstone parish originally included Cawthorne, West Bretton, Cumberland, Barnsley, Dodworth, Stainborough, Thurgoland, and Hoyland Swein, but now is limited just to Silkstone itself.
The Silkstone coal seam is at its shallowest in the Silkstone area, and mining was an important local industry. In 1809 a waggonway was built through the village by the Barnsley Canal Navigation Company[3]. The waggonway was used to transport coal from collieries in the Silkstone valley to Cawthorne.
[edit] References
- ^ Hunter, Joseph (1831). South Yorkshire. The history and topography of the deanery of Doncaster, in the diocese and county of York. Volume II. London: J.B. Nichols and Son.
- ^ Church of All Saints. Images of England. Retrieved on 2006-12-30.
- ^ Silkstone Waggonway Trail. Silkstone Parish. Retrieved on 2006-12-30.
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