Kilnhurst

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Kilnhurst
Kilnhurst shown within South Yorkshire
Population	2,775
OS grid reference	SK468976
Metropolitan borough	Rotherham
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Mexborough
Postcode district	S64
Dialling code	01709
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Wentworth
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°28′13″N 1°18′21″W / 53.470339, -1.305744

Kilnhurst is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Don and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. It grew up around the coal mining, ceramics, glass, brick-making and locomotive industries: none of these industries remain in the village.

The sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger was born in the village in 1885. He was the son of a colliery manager. Jagger was famous for a number of war memorials commemorating the First World War, such as the Royal Artillery Memorial (1925) which stands at Hyde Park Corner in London.

[edit] Railways

Until the 1960s the village had two railway stations; both have since closed.

Residents now rely on Stagecoach buses to go to Rotherham, Mexborough, Barnsley, or Swinton railway station for journeys to Sheffield, Meadowhall or Doncaster.