17-617: Brierley ( / ˈ b r aɪ . ər l i / ) is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire , England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with West Yorkshire , it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road , and is less than 2 miles (3 km) to the south west of Hemsworth . Its late nineteenth century founded civil parish contained
34-542: Is bisected by the M1 motorway ; it is rural to the west, and largely urban/industrial to the east. It is estimated that around 16% of the borough is classed as urban overall, with this area being home to the vast majority of its residents. Additionally, 68% of Barnsley's 32,863 hectares is green belt and 9% is national park land, the majority of which is west of the M1. In 2007, it was estimated that Barnsley had 224,600 residents, measured at
51-764: Is located at Wentworth Castle in Stainborough . The University of Huddersfield has a campus in Barnsley town centre. In terms of television, the area is served by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire broadcasting from the Emley Moor transmitter. Radio stations for the area are: Local newspaper for the area is served by the Barnsley Chronicle . 53°33′N 1°28′W / 53.550°N 1.467°W / 53.550; -1.467 Green belt (United Kingdom) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
68-556: The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority . Elections to the council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 63 councillors being elected at each election. The council has been controlled by the Labour Party since its creation in 1974. The borough council appoints one councillor to be the mayor every year. On the day of the mayor's appointment, a parade takes place in front of
85-460: The pit village of Grimethorpe , and at the 2001 census had a population of 5,973, increasing to 7,267 in the 2011 Census. Brierley is at its core approximately 330 feet (100 m) above sea level on gently undulating slopes. Brierley was an early Saxon settlement. The fort at Brierley Gap, mistakenly called Saxon, is from a much earlier period, probably the Iron Age. The village grew first around
102-484: The wapentake of Staincross . The actual Domesday Book spelling is 'Breselia' but all ensuing documents use 'Brerelia' as the correct form. Later, this name became 'Brereley', then Brearley from which we get one of our modern pronunciations. It was first spelt as 'Brierley' in some documents relating to the leasing of Brierley Manor by descendants of the Harryngton family, from Queen Elizabeth I in 1572. This spelling of
119-473: The 2011 census as 231,221. The neighbouring districts are Doncaster , Rotherham , Sheffield , High Peak , Kirklees and Wakefield . The borough was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 . It covered the whole area of 12 former districts and parts of another two, which were all abolished at the same time: The county borough of Barnsley had been self-governing, whereas
136-524: The early Brereley estate. Its manor house was surrounded by a high, stone wall and a moat in a dwindled demesne in latter years of 5 acres (2.0 ha). The building was mainly of local sandstone and many of the stones remain in the soil among which fragments of 14th and 15th century pottery have been found. St Paul's Church in Brierley was built in 1869 as a daughter church to the Parish of St Peter, Felkirk , it
153-458: The hilltop on the Barnsley to Pontefract road where a small hollow and the sites of several wells provided a good building area. Along Ket Hill Lane, coal seams come to the surface and form part of the soil so coal must have been known to these early farmers. Sandstone and coal in alternate layers are the underlying rocks of the area. In the Domesday Book, Brierley is referred to as 'Brerelia' in
170-517: The majority of the Hoylands are concentrated in Barnsley. There are over 100 schools and colleges in the borough. State education is managed by Barnsley Local Education Authority . There are 14 state-run secondary schools and around 80 primary schools . There was an independent school, Hope House School . Post-16 education is provided at Barnsley College and the sixth form of Penistone Grammar School . An adult education college, Northern College,
187-502: The name was not commonly used until it appeared in a Manor Court Roll for 1665. The early field boundaries can be recognised on the Ordnance Survey Map by the irregular way in which they ring the village and by the winding outline of their hedges due to the ploughing methods of the time. On a well-hidden site between Brierley and Grimethorpe , stood the fortified Manor of Hall Steads (the name means 'hall site'), which belonged to
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#1732859064492204-521: The other 13 districts were all lower-tier authorities where county-level services were provided by West Riding County Council . From its creation in 1974 until 1986, the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley was a district-level authority, with county-level services provided by South Yorkshire County Council . The county council was abolished in 1986, since when Barnsley has been responsible for all local government services. The borough forms part of
221-455: The road to Sheffield, which includes the former hamlets of Hoyland Common, Upper Hoyland and Hoyland Nether ( nether being old English for "lower"). Hoylandswaine is located on the opposite side of the wide valley, and at almost 1000 feet above sea level has a wilder and bleaker feel than High Hoyland . The word Hoyland is derived from Norse, and at its simplest means "farm on a hill". Despite there being countless farms on hills around England,
238-411: The town hall in honour of the new mayor. Barnsley borough is represented by four MPs: Dan Jarvis for Barnsley Central (Labour), Marie Tidball for Penistone & Stocksbridge (Labour), Stephanie Peacock for Barnsley East (Labour) and John Healey for Wentworth and Dearne CC (Labour). There are many Hoylands in Barnsley – there is the village of Hoyland itself south-east of Barnsley on
255-444: Was Rev Godfrey Pigott Cordeux. Brierley was formerly a township in the parish of Felkirk , from 1866 Brierley was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 2016 the parish was abolished. Barnsley (borough) The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley is a metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire , England ; the main settlement is Barnsley and other notable towns include Penistone , Wombwell and Hoyland . The borough
272-522: Was completed in 1904. St. Paul's Church in Brierley was built in 1869 for George Savile Foljambe, Lord of the Manor of Brierley, to the designs of John Wade in the Gothic Revival style. Foljambe provided half the cost of the church, and the rest was donated by other local principal people, the land for the church and former Brierley church school was given by Rev John Hoyland, vicar of Felkirk. The first curate
289-473: Was deemed insufficient for the expanding population of the south of the area which formed Grimethorpe which equally became an ecclesiastical parish albeit later, in 1901, and the first vicar, set about raising funds to build its respective church. Major donations were received from Mr F.J. Savile-Foljambe who donated the lands for the church and the vicarage and the Carlton Main Colliery, and the church
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