Green Moor

Infobox UK place
map_type= South Yorkshire
country = England
official_name= Green Moor
latitude = 53.48
longitude = -1.57
scale =
population=
metropolitan_borough= Barnsley
metropolitan_county= South Yorkshire
region = Yorkshire and the Humber
constituency_westminster= Barnsley West and Penistone
post_town = SHEFFIELD
postcode_district = S35
postcode_area= S
dial_code= 0114

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 dormitory village for commuters to Sheffield. 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.

History

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 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.

People

Adventurer Nick Sanders lived here during the 1990s. Kate Rusby lives nearby.

References

*"Echoing Hills", by Phyllis Crossland. Bridge Publications, 1988. ISBN 0-947934-20-0