Elsecar is in the East Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode S74 8AY), in the parish of Barnsley, unparished area.

How do I get to Elsecar?

The nearest railway station is Rockingham, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can use postcode S74 8AY.

How do I get to Elsecar?

The nearest railway station is Rockingham, about 0.5 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode S74 8AY.

Museums · East Midlands

Elsecar

In or near Wentworth.

♿ Wheelchair: limited

The Mardy Monster - geograph.org.uk - 3549551 — Alan Murray-Rust — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h
Best time of year: Year-round
Nearest railway station: Rockingham · 0.5 km

Family-friendly
Limited wheelchair access

Getting there & planning your visit

To visit Elsecar museum, the nearest railway station is Rockingham, located 0.5 km away. The postcode for sat-nav is S74 8AY. Accessibility is limited for wheelchair users.

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Elsecar ( , locally ) is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is near to Jump and Wentworth, it is also 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Hoyland, 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Barnsley and 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Sheffield. Elsecar falls within the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Ward of Hoyland Milton. Elsecar is unique as a name. It is thought to derive from the Old English personal name of Aelfsige (mentioned in Cartulary of Nostell Priory, 1259–66) and the Old Norse word kjarr, denoting a marsh or brushwood. From the late 18th century, Elsecar was transformed into an 'industrial estate village' for nearby Wentworth Woodhouse, with multiple collieries and two major ironworks. It is seen as one of the UK's first model villages and a precursor to Saltaire. A 1795 Newcomen steam engine at the Elsecar New Colliery is the oldest steam engine still in situ, anywhere in the world. The village now attracts over 500,000 visitors each year, to its heritage centre, historic sites and award-winning park.

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From the Wikipedia article

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Background

History

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Elsecar as having a population of 1912 and 353 dwelling places. The village had developed rapidly since a century before, when it had been just a handful of cottages around a village green and a scattering of shallow coal pits, in a valley alongside an ancient stream.

Description

The Earls oversaw expansion of deep coalmining and sinking of new collieries for over a century and maintained a direct controlling interest in the management of the village's collieries until nationalisation in 1947. In 1794-5, the village's first deep colliery was sunk, a few metres to the east of the village's proposed canal basin. Over the following years, Elsecar New Colliery was expanded and the original Elsecar (Old) Colliery modernised. In the 1840s and 1850s, two state-of-the-art collieries were sunk, Simon Wood and Elsecar Low (later renamed Hemingfield). The latter survives, has been rescued and is now in community ownership. In 1851, Queen Victoria was taken outside the Great…

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Coordinates: 53.4960, -1.4120
District: Barnsley
Parish: Barnsley, unparished area
Postcode: S74 8AY
Parliamentary constituency: Barnsley South
Nearest railway station: Rockingham — 0.5 km

Sources

wikipedia: Elsecar (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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