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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Penistone, Monk Bretton, Elsecar, Dodworth, Hoyland, Silkstone, Thurnscoe, Thurgoland, Birdwell, South Yorkshire, Oxspring, Grimethorpe, Darfield, South Yorkshire, Langsett Reservoir, Wombwell, Worsbrough, Darton, Cawthorne, Dearne Valley, Athersley, High Hoyland, Cudworth, South Yorkshire, Staincross, Cubley, South Yorkshire, Royston, South Yorkshire, Goldthorpe, Dunford Bridge, Dunford, South Yorkshire, Bolton upon Dearne, Stairfoot, Lundwood, New Lodge, South Yorkshire, Wortley, South Yorkshire, Great Houghton, South Yorkshire, Silkstone Common, Mapplewell, Woolley Colliery, Little Houghton, South Yorkshire, Jump, South Yorkshire, Wilthorpe, Millhouse Green, Thurlstone, Kexbrough, Ingbirchworth, Barugh Green, Hood Green, Kendray, Carlton, South Yorkshire, Ardsley, South Yorkshire, Billingley, Shafton, Brierley, Haigh, West Yorkshire, Barnburgh Main Colliery, Pogmoor, Middlecliffe, Gawber, Bolder Bridge Barnsley, Tankersley, South Yorkshire, Stainborough, Hunshelf, Millhouses, Barnsley, Carlecotes, Gilroyd, Higham, South Yorkshire, Ward Green, Barugh, South Yorkshire, Honeywell, South Yorkshire. Excerpt: Penistone ( -is-t n) is a small market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England, with a population of 10,101 at the 2001 census. It lies 8 miles (13 km) west of the town of Barnsley and 17 miles (27 km) north east of Glossop, in the foothills of the Pennines. Penistone town centre stands at an elevation of 750 feet (230 m) above sea level. The meaning of Penistone is Old English tun "farm, village" with an uncertain first element, possibly Celtic penn = "head," "hill," similar to Penn in the West Midlands. Records of the name as Penstun (1143) and Penstone (n.d.) prove the second element is Old English t n = "farm, village" (not Old English st n ="stone" as might ...
