| Crow Edge, Barnsley | |
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 Clay pit, off the A616 | |
  Crow Edge, Barnsley Location within South Yorkshire | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Sheffield |
| Postcode district | S36 |
| Dialling code | 01226 |
| Police | South Yorkshire |
| Fire | South Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
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Crow Edge is a hamlet in Dunford civil parish, [1] situated on the A616, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
Since about 1857 [2] Crow Edge has been home to the Hepworth Iron Company's coal mines, fire clay pits and clay products works, [3] later Hepworth Building Products Ltd.'s pipe works. From 2005 this has been part of the Dutch Wavin Group. [4] In 2013, 50 acres of their site was sold to the British company R. Plevin and Sons Ltd. Thereby making the site, the largest waste wood recycling facility in the United Kingdom. [5]
From 1846 to 1950 Hazlehead Bridge railway station, on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway's Woodhead Line, provided a rail link for passenger traffic by bus service to Huddersfield, via Crow Edge and Honley. [6] From 1857 to 1960 there was goods traffic on the mineral line from Hazlehead Bridge to Crow Edge, where the Hepworth Iron Company had an ironworks, collieries, coke ovens and a fireclay quarry. [7] [8] [9]
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