Traditional county: South Yorkshire · District / Borough: Barnsley · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Smithies, South Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Smithies map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Smithies, South Yorkshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Smithies |
| Traditional County | South Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Barnsley |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.570210 |
| Longitude | -1.469313 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Smithies rises from the industrial pulse of South Yorkshire, where the heavy legacy of coal mining informs the quiet, grey-hued horizon. It lies 1.3 miles north-north-east of Barnsley (from Barnsley: bearing 25°T, OS grid SE 352 083). The landscape here retains a rugged, weathered character, shaped by the steady flow of the River Dearne that carves through the local terrain. Much of Smithies occupies the verdant expanse of Dearne Valley Park, where the reclaimed earth now hosts a soft, resilient wildness beneath the shifting northern light. Shadows lengthen toward the west, where the skeletal remains of the East Gawber Hall Colliery Fanhouse stand as a silent, brick-built witness to a vanished era of steam and soot. These remnants offer a stark contrast to the modern roads that slice through the valley, binding the past to the constant motion of contemporary life. A thin, silver mist often clings to the low-lying fields in the early morning, lending a ghostly clarity to the chimneys and pylons that define the skyline. Through this corridor of history, the spirit of Smithies persists, balanced between the memory of deep-shaft labour and the encroaching green of the revitalised riverbanks.
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Explore Smithies, South Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.570210, -1.469313. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |