Green Moor

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Green Moor
Green Moor shown within South Yorkshire
Metropolitan borough	Barnsley
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SHEFFIELD
Postcode district	S35
Dialling code	0114
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Barnsley West and Penistone
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°29′N 1°34′W / 53.48, -1.57

Green Moor is a small hamlet in South Yorkshire, England, close to Penistone and Oxspring. Green Moor used to be a stone quarry in the last century but has since become a dormitory village for commuters to Sheffield. The historical novel Echoing Hills by Phyllis Crossland is set in Green Moor. In the early 90s a farm there was home to some of the first goa trance parties in the UK. Green Moor is also the site of activity center used by the Sheffield and District Boys Brigade Battalion.

[edit] History

Sandstone quarries in the area were once worked on a large scale. During the nineteenth century stone paving was transported by sea to London. There was a Greenmoor Wharf at Southwark, and some of the stone flags around the Houses of Parliament came from Green Moor. Later transport was by rail from Wortley Station, where there was a stone sawmill.

Green Moor Delf Quarry stretched back from the Rock Inn. Trunce or California Quarry is to the North West, below the village. The remains of a "Stoneway", a roadway of channelled stone slabs, linking the quarry to Well Hill Road. Victoria Quarry is to the northeast of the village, close to Wortley Top Forge. Close by is a stack of stone slabs, presumably left when the quarry closed. There were a number of other small quarries in the area. Since the last quarry closed in 1936, all have been filled in to some degree.