Silkstone is a Village in the county of South Yorkshire.

Silkstone postcode: S75 4JQ

Retail in Silkstone

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

Places near Silkstone feature a number of interesting towns including Wath-upon-Dearne.

There are a several good cities in the Silkstone area like Sheffield, and Doncaster.

Silkstone's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Meadowhall, and Frenchgate Centre.

Places near Silkstone feature a number of interesting airports including Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Silkstone History

There are some historic monuments around Silkstone:

• Ewden Beck round barrow cemetery and cross-dyke
• Iron Age and Roman quern workings on Wharncliffe Rocks
• Late prehistoric settlement in Notton Park, 650m north west of Lee Lane Farm
• Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
• Water powered bloomery, iron forge and rolling mill at Low Forge
• Shaft head and associated headgear near Caphouse Colliery, Overton
• Low Mill furnace
• New Hall moat and fishpond
• Glass furnace, Bolsterstone
• Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church
• Wayside cross south of Hartcliff Road
• East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm
• Rockley engine house
• Wayside and boundary cross on the south side of Elliott Lane
• Facade of Bridge Chapel in grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall
• Anglo-Saxon period cross in churchyard of All Saints
• Wortley Top Forge
• Ewden Beck ring-cairn.
• Iron mining shaft mounds and medieval earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm
• Handlands Romano-British settlement, 460m south west of Woodseats Farm
• Romano-British settlements at Finkle Street
• Emley Day Holes, 200m east of Churchill Farm
• Wayside cross known as the Cundy Cross
• Rockley blast furnace
• Dovecote at Glebe Farm
• Standing cross at Emley