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Highfield South Yorkshire Map

(Suburban Area near Darfield)

Traditional county: South Yorkshire · District / Borough: Barnsley · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

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Place	Highfield
Traditional County	South Yorkshire
District / Borough	Barnsley
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	53.540376
Longitude	-1.377548
Place Type	Suburban Area

About Highfield

Highfield occupies a distinct position upon the rising ground of South Yorkshire, where the industrial legacy of the coal seams still informs the character of the horizon. It lies 1.5 miles north-north-east of Wombwell (from Wombwell: bearing 33°T, OS grid SE 413 050), and is situated north-north-west of Darfield village. The landscape here breathes with the quiet persistence of the Dearne Valley Wetlands SSSI, where the water catches the grey, flat light of the northern sky in the low-lying marshy hollows. Highfield retains a sturdy, unpretentious composure, shaped by the weight of the collieries that once defined the daily labour of its inhabitants. To the south, the Miners' Welfare Park offers a green reprieve, its paths smoothed by generations of heavy boots and slow Sunday afternoon strolls. Beyond the immediate rows of housing, the land rises toward the subtle elevations of Quarry Hills, which provide a vantage point over the shifting patterns of the valley floor. The local atmosphere remains tethered to this reclamation of space, where nature slowly reclaims the iron-bound memories of the earth. Highfield persists as a quiet observer of the seasonal changes that sweep across the Yorkshire basin, marking time in the rustle of reeds and the distant hum of the modern road.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Dearne Valley Wetlands Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — locality lies within · 650 ha
Miners' Welfare Park (Park) — 0.5 mi, 148° SSE
Maurice Dobson Museum (Museum) — 0.5 mi, 151° SSE
Cross In The Churchyard Of All Saints' Church, Darfield (Scheduled Monument) — 0.6 mi, 142° SE
Houghton Main Colliery Memorial (Monument) — 0.7 mi, 048° NE
Quarry Hills (Hill / Mountain) — 0.9 mi, 121° ESE
Cat Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.9 mi, 139° SE
Town Lands (Park) — 1.0 mi, 186° S
Broomhill Flash (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.3 mi, 174° S
Bulling Dike (River) — 1.5 mi, 153° SSE
Carlton Main Brickworks Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.9 mi, 000° N · 16 ha
Lundhill Colliery Disaster Memorial (Public Artwork) — 1.9 mi, 210° SSW
Dob Sike (River) — 2.0 mi, 260° W
Bolton Ings (Wetland) — 2.1 mi, 138° SE
Stairfoot Station (Monument) — 2.3 mi, 274° W
Wombwell Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 2.6 mi, 234° SW
Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac And Benedictine Monastery: Monastic Precinct And Two Fishponds (Scheduled Monument) — 2.6 mi, 291° WNW · 2 ha
Romano-British Settlements In Wombwell Wood (Scheduled Monument) — 2.7 mi, 245° WSW · 5 ha
Monk Bretton Priory (Attraction) — 2.7 mi, 291° WNW
Howell Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 3.0 mi, 032° NNE
Addey Bottoms (Valley) — 3.1 mi, 004° N
Lowfield Lakes (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.5 mi, 121° ESE
WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery (Historic Ruins) — 3.5 mi, 119° ESE
The Forge (Attraction) — 3.5 mi, 208° SSW
Elsecar Heritage Centre (Museum) — 3.6 mi, 209° SSW
Worsbrough Basin (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.7 mi, 255° WSW
Lowe Stand (Historic Ruins) — 4.0 mi, 232° SW
Worsbrough Mill Museum (Museum) — 4.1 mi, 256° WSW
Hickleton Hall (Historic Park or Garden) — 4.3 mi, 093° E · 76 ha
Wigfield Farm (Attraction) — 4.3 mi, 260° W

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