Kilnhurst

infobox UK place
country = England
latitude=53.470339
longitude=-1.305744
official_name= Kilnhurst
population = 2,775
map_type= South Yorkshire
metropolitan_borough= Rotherham
metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire
region= Yorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminster= Wentworth
post_town= Mexborough|postcode_district = S64
postcode_area= S |dial_code= 01709
os_grid_reference= SK468976

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.

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.

See also

* List of closed railway stations in Britain