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Green Moor
Green Moor shown within South Yorkshire |
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| Parish | Hunshelf |
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| Metropolitan borough | Barnsley |
| Metropolitan county | South Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SHEFFIELD |
| Postcode district | S35 |
| Dialling code | 0114 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| UK Parliament | Barnsley West and Penistone |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
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 predominately commuter and retirement village. 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.
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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 former 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. The village has an old well pumphouse and a set of village stocks which have been preserved.
The methodist chapel was built in the nineteenth century by subscription from local workers and is still used for worship. Like many villages in the area, Greenmoor was and still is part of the north Sheffield local Christmas carolling tradition, and its village anthem is `Christians awake'. From 1900 to the 1970s Greenmoor singers would travel by foot for up to 12 hours of visiting houses and performing the local songs. The Walton family performed accompaniment on stringed instruments.
Adventurer and TV personality Nick Sanders lived here during the 1990s. Folk singer Kate Rusby and mathcore band Rolo Tomassi live nearby. Director Ken Loach was based in the village during his filming of Kes.
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