Birdwell is a Village in the county of South Yorkshire.

Birdwell postcode: S70 5UX

Retail in Birdwell

There are great places to visit near Birdwell including some great towns, cities, shopping centres and airports.

The area around Birdwell's best towns can be found at Wath-upon-Dearne.

Birdwell has some unmissable cities nearby like Sheffield, and Doncaster.

Don't miss Meadowhall, and Frenchgate Centre's shopping centres if visiting the area around Birdwell.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport is a great place to visit close to Birdwell if you like airports.

Birdwell History

There are some historic monuments around Birdwell:

• Roman Ridge: section 110yds (100m) long, 450yds (410m) NNE of Kimberworth Park Farm
• Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
• Late prehistoric settlement in Notton Park, 650m north west of Lee Lane Farm
• Wayside cross known as Kirk Cross
• Kimberworth Manor moated site
• Monk Bretton standing cross
• Roman Ridge: SE of Hill Top (section 700yds (660m) long, Meadowhall Road to Hill Top)
• Hemingfield Colliery
• Roman Ridge: section 330yds (300m) long, S of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park
• Willow Garth moated site and fishpond, Ecclesfield
• Roman Ridge: section 180yds (160m) long on SE slopes of Wincobank Hill
• Roman Ridge: section 600yds (550m) long between Jenkin Lane (now Road) and Tylers Street
• Rockley engine house
• Dovecote at Glebe Farm
• Roman Ridge (Roman road): section S of Hoober House
• East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm
• Low Mill furnace
• Standing cross at the Church of St Mary
• Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds
• Romano-British settlements in Wombwell Wood
• Wortley Top Forge
• Wayside and boundary cross on the south side of Elliott Lane
• File factory, 11 High Street
• The former Elsecar Ironworks
• Romano-British settlements at Finkle Street
• Rockley blast furnace
• Anglo-Saxon period cross in churchyard of All Saints
• Iron Age and Roman quern workings on Wharncliffe Rocks
• Kimberworth motte and bailey castle
• Roman Ridge: section 250yds (230m) in length N of Kimberworth Park Road
• Handlands Romano-British settlement, 460m south west of Woodseats Farm
• Wayside cross known as the Cundy Cross
• Roman Ridge: section 500yds (460m) long, N of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park
• Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church
• Wincobank slight univallate hillfort and World War II anti-aircraft gun and searchlight emplacement
• Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long from Hill Top Lane to Little Common Lane
• Caesar's Camp, Scholes Coppice
• Hood Hill shaft mounds, 480m east of Hood Hill Farm
• The former Elsecar New Colliery, including the Elsecar Newcomen Engine
• Water powered bloomery, iron forge and rolling mill at Low Forge
• Romano-British field system and settlement at Wheata Wood