{{short description|Hamlet in South Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | official_name = Crow Edge, Barnsley | static_image = Clay pit near Crow Edge, Dunford - geograph.org.uk - 937580.jpg | static_image_width = 250px | static_image_caption = Clay pit, off the A616 | coordinates = {{coord|53.538828|-1.722364|display=inline,title}} | population = | population_ref = | civil_parish = | metropolitan_borough = Barnsley | metropolitan_county = South Yorkshire | region = Yorkshire and the Humber | constituency_westminster = Penistone and Stocksbridge | post_town = Sheffield | postcode_district = S36 | postcode_area = S | dial_code = 01226 | os_grid_reference = | website = }}
'''Crow Edge''' is a hamlet in Dunford civil parish,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/about/how-the-council-is-organised/information-on-parish-and-town-councils/dunford-parish-council|title=Dunford Parish Council|publisher=Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council|date=|access-date=13 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109205054/http://barnsley.gov.uk/about/how-the-council-is-organised/information-on-parish-and-town-councils/dunford-parish-council/|archive-date=9 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> situated on the A616, in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.
==Industry== Since about 1857<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hepworth_Iron_Co|title=Hepworth Iron Co|publisher=Grace's Guide|date= |access-date=12 May 2013}}</ref> Crow Edge has been home to the Hepworth Iron Company's coal mines, fire clay pits and clay products works,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/h1029.htm|title=Hepworth Iron Co. Ltd. |publisher=Durham Mining Museum|date= |access-date=12 May 2013}}</ref> later Hepworth Building Products Ltd.'s pipe works. From 2005 this has been part of the Dutch Wavin Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wavin.com/com/History.html|title=Wavin, History, Holding Company|publisher=www.wavin.com|access-date=12 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130609185407/http://www.wavin.com/com/History.html|archive-date=9 June 2013}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.plevin.co.uk/news/plevin-announce-plans-for-5-million-waste-wood-recycling-facility/|title=Plevin, News, Plans for UK's Largest Waste Wood Recycling Centre|publisher=www.plevin.co.uk|date= |access-date=19 September 2013}}</ref>
==Rail== 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dow |first=George |title=Great Central, Volume 1 (The Progenitors 1813-1863)|pages=51, 82 |publisher=Locomotive Publishing Co |location=London |year=1985 |orig-year=1959 |author-link=George Dow |isbn=0-7110-1468-X }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dow |first=George |title=Great Central, Volume 1 (The Progenitors 1813-1863)|page=127 |publisher=Locomotive Publishing Co |location=London |year=1985|orig-year=1959 |author-link=George Dow |isbn=0-7110-1468-X }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations|page=116 |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Hepworth's last journey|work=Huddersfield Daily Examiner |date= 11 April 1960|issue=30,649|page=5|oclc= 500150503}}</ref> {{Main|Hazlehead Bridge railway station}}
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Crow Edge}} *[http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/h1029.htm Hepworth Iron Co. Ltd.] at Durham Mining Museum *[http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Hepworth_Iron_Co Hepworth Iron Co] at Grace's Guide
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crow Edge}} Category:Hamlets in South Yorkshire Category:Towns and villages of the Peak District Category:Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley
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