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Wath upon Dearne (shortened to Wath / ˈ w ɒ θ / or often hyphenated) is a town south of the River Dearne in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, 5 miles (8 km) north of Rotherham and almost midway between Barnsley and Doncaster. It had a population of 11,816 at the 2011 census. [2]
Wath railway station was one of three railway stations in Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England.It was the southern terminus of The Hull & South Yorkshire Extension Railway which became part of the Hull and Barnsley Railway in 1898 and was the southern terminus of a branch line from Wrangbrook Junction. [1]
The main line ran from Hull to Cudworth, with two other lines branching off at Wrangbrook Junction, the South Yorkshire Junction Railway to Denaby, and The Hull & South Yorkshire Extension Railway, an eight-mile (thirteen-kilometre) branch to Wath-upon-Dearne, opened 31 March 1902.
Brampton Bierlow, near Barnsley, often known as Brampton, is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the south side of the Dearne Valley , between Barnsley and Rotherham .
Civil parish: 568: Barnsley: Penistone Rural District [18] [32] Great Houghton: Civil parish: ... Wath upon Dearne: Unparished area: 11,816: Rotherham: Wath upon ...
Wath railway station may refer to a number of railway stations in Yorkshire, England: serving Wath-upon-Dearne, now in South Yorkshire. Wath (Hull and Barnsley) railway station, open from 1902 to 1929; Wath Central railway station, closed in 1959; Wath North railway station, opened as Wath railway station in 1841, closed in 1968
Wath marshalling yard, also known as Wath concentration yard (grid reference), was a large railway marshalling yard specifically designed for the concentration of coal traffic. It was set at the heart of the South Yorkshire Coalfield, at Wath-upon-Dearne, approximately halfway between Barnsley and Doncaster, in the United Kingdom. It opened in ...
On 31 December 1894 West Melton became a civil parish, formed from Brampton Bierlow, on 1 April 1923 the parish was abolished and merged with Wath upon Dearne. [2] In 1921 the parish had a population of 4745. [3] It is now in the unparished area of Wath upon Dearne.