Crow Edge, Barnsley | |
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Clay pit, off the A616 | |
Location within South Yorkshire | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Sheffield |
Postcode district | S36 |
Dialling code | 01226 |
Police | South Yorkshire |
Fire | South Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Crow Edge is a hamlet in Dunford civil parish,[1] situated on the A616, two miles southeast of Hepworth, West Yorkshire in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
Since about 1857[2] Crow Edge has been home to the Hepworth Iron Company's coal mines, fire clay pits and clay products works,[3] later Hepworth Building Products Ltd.'s pipe works. From 2005 this has been part of the Dutch Wavin Group.[4] In 2013, 50 acres of their site was sold to the British company R. Plevin and Sons Ltd. Thereby making the site, the largest waste wood recycling facility in the United Kingdom.[5]
From 1850–1950 Hazlehead Bridge railway station, on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway's Woodhead Line, provided a rail link for passenger traffic to Crow Edge and onward by bus service to Huddersfield. From 1850–1964 there was goods traffic on the line and a branch line to the Crow Edge works.[6][7]
Main article: Hazlehead Bridge railway station |