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The Old Glassworks, in snow.

Barnsley

(3.8 miles, 6.1 km, direction SW)

This is an attractive town laid out along the River Dearne, it is enclosed by spectacular Pennine scenery and is an ideal place from which to discover the limestone hills and fresh green valley's of the Yorkshire Dales...

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Countryside 5 minutes out of Featherstone, West Yorkshire

Featherstone

(6.1 miles, 9.8 km, direction NE)

Featherstone is a large town lying between Wakefield and Pontefract in West Yorkshire. For the past couple of centuries the town was known chiefly for its coal mines...

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Wakefield High Street, West Yorkshire

Wakefield

(6.4 miles, 10.3 km, direction NW)

Wakefield was the capital of Yorkshire's woollen industry for more than 700 years, it was an important weaving and dying centre as far back as the 13th century...

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St Giles Church

Pontefract

(8.2 miles, 13.2 km, direction NE)

Pontefract has a ruined castle which has seen many tragedies, Richard II was murdered there in 1400, and later it was the scene of bitter, bloody battles between Roundheads and Royalists...

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Castleford

Castleford

(9.3 miles, 14.9 km, direction NE)

This is a large Northern town with roots stretching back to the Romans and beyond, as proven by the recent finding of a Bronze Age male skeleton and his chariot...

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St. Mary's Church.

Bolsterstone

(11.4 miles, 18.3 km, direction SW)

Bolsterstone is a hilltop village, about 1.000 feet above sea level, situated about 8 miles North west of Sheffield, Yorkshire. It has Anglo Saxon roots and lies on a Salt Route.....

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Thrybergh Country Park in South Yorkshire, England

Thrybergh

(11.5 miles, 18.5 km, direction SE)

Thrybergh is a pretty South Yorkshire village with a history stretching back to the time of the Doomsday Book, for centuries it was little more than a small rural village with scattered housing and farms...

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St Mary's Church, Sprotbrough, South Yorkshire

Sprotbrough

(11.9 miles, 19.1 km, direction SE)

Sprotbrough lies in the valley of the River Don, it is a lovely rural location with fertile fields and meadows leading from leafy lanes whose hedgerows are full of wild plants and flowers...

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The Dumb Steeple

Mirfield

(12.0 miles, 19.4 km, direction NW)

Mirfield is a residential town situated between Huddersfield and Dewsbury. It has a long history, and associations with Robin Hood, the Luddites, and the Bronte sisters. More.....

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A picture of Rotherham

Rotherham

(12.3 miles, 19.7 km, direction S)

This town was formerly a Saxon market town which remained largely unaltered until the Industrial Revolution...

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Recommended attractions near Rabbit Ings Country Park

Carlton Marsh Nature Reserve

Carlton Marsh

(0.9 miles, 1.5 km)

A wetland nature lover’s delight and a core wildlife site of the Dearne Valley, Carlton Marsh hugs the Cudworth Dyke and is.....

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Anglers Country Park

Anglers Country Park

(2.9 miles, 4.6 km, direction N)

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at Monk Bretton Priory, Cudworth, South Yorkshire

Monk Bretton Priory

(3.2 miles, 5.1 km, direction S)

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A view of Newmillerdam taken near the memorial, West Yorkshire.

Newmillerdam Country Park

(3.2 miles, 5.1 km, direction NW)

This attractive country park offers a rich and varied country landscape, it is dominated by a large lake ringed by numerous trees.....

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Nostell Priory

Nostell Priory

(4.0 miles, 6.5 km, direction NE)

18th-century architectural masterpiece with Adam interiors, Chippendale furniture, fine collections and landscape park and.....

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Howell Wood Lake

Howell Wood Country Park

(4.1 miles, 6.5 km, direction E)

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Outline of Sandal

Sandal Castle

(4.6 miles, 7.5 km, direction NW)

The crumbling, naked ruins of Sandal Castle are now owned by Wakefield council, and what an inspired choice of centre-piece they.....

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Pugneys Country Park Horbury

Pugneys Country Park

(4.8 miles, 7.8 km, direction NW)

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, West Yorkshire

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

(5.6 miles, 8.9 km, direction W)

This is an exciting, fascinating tourist attraction that is both fun and thought provoking for all the family. It has fast.....

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Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire. Viewed from Westgate

Wakefield Cathedral

(6.1 miles, 9.8 km, direction NW)

This was formerly the parish church of All Saints, it only became a cathedral at the end of the 19th century. With its.....

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