Our next stop is at Pontefract, a small town that was historically of considerably greater significance than it is now. Today, it is a...

Featherstone is a town located between Wakefield and Pontefract, a pair of more famous neighbours both of which tourists are far more...

Streethouse is a small former mining village surrounded by farmland some distance east of Wakefield. It is wholly unremarkable and not...

South Elmsall is a small town much like South Kirkby and like its neighbour it was in existence at the time of the Domesday Book. Like so...

Below Fitzwilliam, the Wakefield Line splits into two, with one branch continuing to Thurnscoe and the other to Adwick le Street, both of...

A short distance down the line from Sandal & Agbrigg, lies the small village of Fitzwilliam, close to the town of Hemsworth. It isn’t a...

The first stop down the Wakefield Line is at Sandal & Agbrigg, a station serving adjacent settlements of which one is more prominent than...

Wakefield became a city in 1888, a status it acquired by virtue of having a cathedral. Nevertheless, it still feels very much like a...

The City of Wakefield occupies the south-eastern corner of what is currently referred to as West Yorkshire, bordering South Yorkshire to...

Penistone is a market town, known locally for its annual agricultural show, held on the second Saturday in September (and unless you...

Our next railway station stop is at Silkstone Common for a walk that includes the adjacent village of Silkstone. This pair of villages is...

Dodworth is yet another mining village, although for centuries before it became one it had some small importance due to its location on...

The village of Darton is located on the banks of the River Dearne, and sits on the border between South and West Yorkshire that was...

Along with Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham, Barnsley is one of South Yorkshire’s four main conurbations, located at the centre of its...

Wombwell is a town just south of Barnsley, and like Swinton and Mexborough is one of those former colliery towns that has suffered...

Elsecar was originally a hamlet, until – like so many other villages in the area – it expanded in the eighteenth century due to the coal...

Like Darnall and Woodhouse, Chapeltown is a former village (not a town, despite its name) that has now become a suburb of Sheffield. It...

As Goldthorpe merges into Bolton upon Dearne to the south, so too does it merge into Thurnscoe – our next stop – to the north. Like its...

Like Bolton upon Dearne, Goldthorpe was originally a medieval farming village, and archaeological findings suggest that the area may been...

The first of the three villages is Bolton upon Dearne, which is quite an ancient settlement, even if that isn’t immediately apparent...