# Crow Edge

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{{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](/source/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Barnsley)
| metropolitan_county      = [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire)
| region                   = Yorkshire and the Humber
| constituency_westminster = [Penistone and Stocksbridge](/source/Penistone_and_Stocksbridge)
| post_town                = [Sheffield](/source/Sheffield)
| postcode_district        = S36
| postcode_area            = S
| dial_code                = 01226
| os_grid_reference        = 
| website                  = 
}}

'''Crow Edge''' is a hamlet in Dunford [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_South_Yorkshire),<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](/source/A616_road), in the [metropolitan borough of Barnsley](/source/%3Aen%3ABarnsley_(borough)), [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), [England](/source/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](/source/Coal_mining), [fire clay](/source/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](/source/Netherlands) [Wavin](/source/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](/source/Hazlehead_Bridge_railway_station), on the [Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway](/source/Sheffield%2C_Ashton-under-Lyne_and_Manchester_Railway)'s [Woodhead Line](/source/Woodhead_Line), provided a rail link for passenger traffic by bus service to [Huddersfield](/source/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}}

==References==
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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

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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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