Country: | England |
Official Name: | Crow Edge, Barnsley |
Static Image: | Clay pit near Crow Edge, Dunford - geograph.org.uk - 937580.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 250px |
Static Image Caption: | Clay pit, off the A616 |
Coordinates: | 53.5388°N -1.7224°W |
Metropolitan Borough: | Barnsley |
Metropolitan County: | South Yorkshire |
Shire District: | South Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Shire County: | Yorkshire |
Constituency Westminster: | Penistone and Stocksbridge |
Post Town: | Sheffield |
Postcode District: | S36 |
Postcode Area: | S |
Dial Code: | 01226 |
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]
See main article: Hazlehead Bridge railway station.