Penistone is a Town in the county of South Yorkshire.

Retail in Penistone

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

There are a several good towns in the area around Penistone like Wath-upon-Dearne.

There are a number of cities near Penistone including Sheffield, and Doncaster.

The area around Penistone features a number of interesting shopping centres including Meadowhall, and Frenchgate Centre.

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

Penistone History

There are some historic monuments around Penistone:

• Standing cross at Emley
• Ewden Beck round barrow cemetery and cross-dyke
• Wayside cross south of Hartcliff Road
• Market cross at Highburton
• Iron mining shaft mounds and medieval earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm
• Round cairn 200m west of Margery Hill triangulation pillar
• Wayside cross on Bradfield Moor known as New Cross
• Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church
• Romano-British settlements at Finkle Street
• Ring cairn, 340m north west of Mortimer House
• Emley Day Holes, 200m east of Churchill Farm
• Wortley Top Forge
• Iron Age and Roman quern workings on Wharncliffe Rocks
• Cowell Flat prehistoric field system, 350m south east of Mortimer House
• Water powered bloomery, iron forge and rolling mill at Low Forge
• Castle Hill motte and bailey castle, High Bradfield
• Glass furnace, Bolsterstone
• Anglo-Saxon period cross in churchyard of All Saints
• Cairnfield on Broomhead Moor, 500m north west of Mortimer House
• Low Mill furnace
• Boundary and wayside cross known as Catshaw Cross
• Ewden Beck ring-cairn.
• Bailey Hill motte and bailey castle, High Bradfield
• Wayside cross known as the Cundy Cross
• The Bar Dyke linear earthwork
• Late prehistoric enclosed settlement on Castle Hill, 550m north of Broadstone Lodge