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South Yorkshire - Castles, Cathedrals,
Monuments,
Stately Homes & Palaces
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Since the stone age, man has been
creating majestic structures that we still marvel at
today.
Whether you are interested in ancient monuments,
battlefield sites,
re-enactments,
Roman and Norman forts and castles, Stately Homes, Country Houses, Historic
Cathedrals, Ruined Abbeys etc, this is the page that
should give you the information you need.
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Here we try to list properties in
private ownership but open to the public (even if only
occasionally) as well as those in the care of the
National Trust or English/Scottish Heritage.
We know that not all the
properties in South Yorkshire are listed.
Please help us
make this guide comprehensive by giving details of
missing attractions
here.
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POT HOUSE HAMLET
Silkstone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4JU
Tel: 01226 790441
E-mail:
info@pothousehamlet.co.uk
Web:
www.pothousehamlet.co.uk
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Welcome to Pot
House Hamlet - a great day out for all
the family, located only 2 miles from the
M1 in the beautiful Yorkshire
countryside.
Walk down the
ancient wagon way alongside Silkstone
Beck and feed the ducks. Bring a picnic
to have on the table under the oak trees.
Have coffee, a snack, a meal, or even a
champagne tea for two at the Potting Shed
Café. Alternatively, treat yourself from
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See where the old
water wheel used to be. Wander around the
extensive plant nursery, the stylish
womenswear shop or peruse the fine
furnishings in the converted mill.
There is so much to
do you might not be able to fit it all into
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Pot House Hamlet is
fully accessible for people with
disabilities, it has disabled toilet and
baby changing facilities and adequate car
parking.
Opening hours are
slightly different for each business but
essentially 10am – 5pm, 7 days a week. |
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Bishops' House
Norton Lees Lane, Sheffield, S8 9BE
Tel: 0114 278 2600
Web:
www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk
An excellent example of a timber house built in
approximately 1500, typifying the smaller
English domestic houses of the 16th and 17th
centuries.
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Conisbrough Castle
Castle Hill, Conisbrough, Doncaster, South
Yorkshire, DN12 3BU
Tel: 01709 863329 Fax:
01709 866773
E-mail:
info@conisbroughcastle.org.uk
Web:
www.conisbroughcastle.org.uk
The finest Circular Norman Keep Tower in the UK,
built during the 1180s by the fifth Earl of
Surrey, Hamelin Plantagenet. Today the
castle boasts a specially designed Visitor
Centre, the installation of flood lights and the
re-institution of the roof and floors of the
eight hundred year old keep tower.
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Monk Bretton Priory
17 Abbey Lane, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S71
5QD
Tel: 0870 333 1181 Fax:
01793 414926
E-mail:
customers@english-heritage.org.uk
Web:
www.english-heritage.org.uk
The ruins of a Cluniac monastery, with an
well-marked ground plan, an almost complete west
range and a 15th-century gatehouse.
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Roche Abbey
Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, S66 8NW
Tel: 01709 812739
E-mail:
customers@english-heritage.org.uk
Web:
www.english-heritage.org.uk
Located within a landscaped valley, this
Cistercian abbey with the prominent tall eastern
end, built in the new Gothic style circa 1170.
Attractions also include one of the most
complete ground plans of any English Cistercian
monastery, and the story of the pillaging of
Roche, recorded by the son of an eye-witness.
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Brodsworth Hall and
Gardens
Brodsworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5 7XJ
Tel: 0871 716 1943
E-mail:
customers@english-heritage.org.uk
Web:
www.english-heritage.org.uk
Brodsworth Hall, built in the 1860s in the
Italianate style, with a great deal of the
original design scheme surviving today. One of
England's most unaltered Victorian country
houses and gardens, a collection of 'grand
gardens in miniature', which have been restored
to their Victorian splendour.
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Sheffield Botanical
Gardens
Clarkehouse Road, Sheffield, S10 2LN
Tel/Fax: 0114 267 6496
E-mail:
sue.willis-worthington@sheffield.gov.uk
Web:
www.sbg.org.uk
A 19 acre garden, originally designed by Robert
Marnock, dating back to 1836. The site contains
the largest collection of listed buildings in a
Sheffield garden, including the Grade II*
listed curvilinear Glass Pavilions.
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Wentworth Castle
Lowe Lane, Stainborough, Barnsley, S75 3ET
Tel: 01226 776040 Fax:
01226 776042
E-mail:
heritagetrust@northern.ac.uk
Web:
www.wentworthcastle.org
Wentworth Castle is a Grade 1 listed building
and is home to the Northern College for
Residential Adult Education. Restoration
work is currently being carried out on the
castle and the surrounding gardens, featuring
the National Plant Collections of Magnolias,
Rhododendrons and Camellias, the 40-acre
Pleasure Gardens, monuments and wildlife.
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