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Touring Woodhouse Mill
Woodhouse Mill in Rotherham (England) is a town located in United Kingdom about 138 mi (or 222 km) north of London, the country's capital place.
Time in Woodhouse Mill is now 06:20 PM (Thursday). The local timezone is named Europe / London with an UTC offset of zero hours. We know of 10 airports nearby Woodhouse Mill, of which 5 are larger airports. The closest airport in United Kingdom is Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport in a distance of 16 mi (or 25 km), North-East. Besides the airports, there are other travel options available (check left side).
There are several Unesco world heritage sites nearby. The closest heritage site in United Kingdom is Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City in a distance of 14 mi (or 23 km), East. Also, if you like the game of golf, there are several options within driving distance. Need some hints on where to stay? We compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Being here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Orgreave, Ulley, Whiston, Wales and Rotherham. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 2°C / 36 °F
Morning Temperature | 0°C / 33 °F |
Evening Temperature | 2°C / 36 °F |
Night Temperature | 3°C / 38 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 77% |
Air Pressure | 999 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (6 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 39% of sky |
General Conditions | Scattered clouds |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
5°C (40 °F)
2°C (36 °F)
Sky is clear, fresh breeze, clear sky.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
4°C (40 °F)
13°C (56 °F)
Rain and snow, fresh breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
15°C (58 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Moderate rain, strong breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Ravencar Farm Bed and Breakfast
Stonecroft Hotel
Best Western Plus Aston Hall
TRAVELODGE SHEFFIELD MEADOWHALL
Best Western Mosborough Hall
Mercure Sheffield Parkway
Carlton Park
Days Inn Sheffield
JCT.33 Holiday Inn ROTHERHAM-SHEFFIELD M1
ibis Chesterfield North - Barlborough
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
Treeton, Rotherham UK 29th July 2014
36 minutes, 7 trains and 12 locos. Not the normal lunch break fare. I'd left the Nikon at home so decided to video using my iPhone. Enjoy.
Rother Valley Country Park - new mountain bike trail part 1
A clip from the first section of the new mountain bike trail at Rother Valley Country park.
Rother Valley Country Park - new mountain bike trail part 2
A clip from the last section of the new mountain bike trail at Rother Valley Country park.
Rother Valley Minature Railway
Rother Valley Country Park's latest attraction, a 7.25in gauge miniature Railway running from the main car park near the cafe, to the causeway by the jet ski lake.
Firbeck Sailing Club-Bluebell Wood Charity Day - 21-8-11
Charity Day at Rother Valley Country Park in aid of Bluebell Wood Hospice.
Jet Ski - Triple Backflip
Rother Valley Country Park, Sheffield, UK. Resident showoff starts doing back flips on his jet ski.
Rother Valley Hovercraft Racing
Slide show of the first day of the 2012 Hovercraft Racing weekend at Rother Valley Country Park (http://www.rothervalleycountrypark.co.uk)
The Greening of Rother Valley - Part 2
A ten minute film about Rother Valley Country Park made in 1990.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Aston cum Aughton
Aston cum Aughton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, with a population of 13,961 according to the 2001 census. It consists of the villages of Aston and Aughton, along with Swallownest. To the west the parish borders the unparished area of Sheffield.
Orgreave Train Collision 1926
The Orgreave Train Collision occurred on 13 December 1926 near Orgreaves Colliery signal box on the Great Central Railway line about 4+⁄2 miles east of Sheffield. A goods train had collided with a preceding goods train on the same line, and the wreckage had obstructed the adjacent passenger line. A workman's train, known as a paddy mail, ran into the wreckage; paddy mails were workmans' trains operated in connection with all three shift changes at the collieries.
Rother Vale Collieries
Rother Vale Collieries were a group of coal producing pits originally in the Rother Valley parishes of Treeton, Woodhouse and Orgreave, nowadays on the south east Sheffield / Rotherham boundary, in South Yorkshire, England. In the early 20th century a new colliery at Thurcroft was developed. The Fence Colliery Company was formed in 1862 with the purchase of Fence Colliery, a small coal pit sunk alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road at the lower end of the village of Fence.
Brookhouse Colliery
To develop coal seams in the area the Sheffield Coal Company opened a new colliery between Swallownest and Beighton, at that time on the borders of Rotherham Rural District and Derbyshire but now just within the borough of Rotherham. The company, which became part of the United Steel Companies in 1937, already owned other collieries in the area, particularly the Birley Collieries and that at Aston Common, known as North Staveley Colliery.
Fence Colliery
Fence Colliery was a small colliery sunk at the lower end of the village of Fence, South Yorkshire, England alongside the main Sheffield to Worksop road in the 1840s, shortly before the opening of the North Midland Railway through the Rother Valley.
Swallownest
Swallownest is a village near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. Located in the civil parish of Aston cum Aughton, it is 4 miles south of Rotherham and 7 miles from Sheffield. According to White's directory of 1833, Swallow Nest was the name of the Toll bar and public house, the home of Mr. Ward, a wheelwright.
Swallownest railway station
Swallownest railway station is a railway station which never opened but which was planned to open to serve the growing townships of Aston and Swallownest east of Sheffield. It appeared in the British Railways Working Timetable very briefly in the Autumn changes in 1993 being withdrawn from them at the following change (Spring 1994).
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beighton
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is situated in Beighton, a suburb of the City of Sheffield. It is located just off High Street, it is the parish church for the parish of Beighton and a Grade II* listed building. Although the original church dated from the 12th century there is no remaining trace of the Medieval structure, it is dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. The present minister is Mike Healey.