IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Buttercross Drive, BARNSLEY, S72 0HS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Buttercross Drive, S72 0HS by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (23 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Old market cross
A market cross was also called a butter cross. It says it's 200 years old but I think it's a lot older.
Image: © John Douglas
Taken: Unknown
0.03 miles
3
Houghton Main Colliery
Houghton Main Colliery.
This photo was taken from the old railway bridge in 1993.
Image: © colin fuller
Taken: Unknown
0.10 miles
4
Houghton Main Colliery sign
The sign for the now gone Houghton Main Colliery, which was at Little Houghton near Barnsley.
Image: © colin fuller
Taken: Unknown
0.10 miles
5
Old Central Cross by Middlecliffe Lane, Little Houghton, Great Houghton parish
Little Houghton Butter Cross, old shaft and base, by the UC road, in parish of Great Houghton (Barnsley District), Little Houghton, Middlecliffe Lane (probably moved from Butter Cross a little to the East), opposite old entrance to Dearne Valley Colliery, in an alcove with metal fence.
South Yorkshire SMR.
HER Number: 00353/01 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MSY4016&resourceID=1027
Surveyed
Milestone Society National ID: YSBA_GRE
Image: © Alan Rosevear
Taken: 23 Sep 2012
0.10 miles
6
The Butter Cross, Little Houghton
Perhaps it hasn't always stood here but it was a rallying point for farmers and other traders in times long gone. It must have watched the rise of coal mining in the area and then its cruel demise so that now you would hardly know what had happened.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 21 May 2015
0.10 miles
7
Dearne Valley Colliery (1901)
All is silence now.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 21 May 2015
0.10 miles
8
Deceptive Path
Can you see the rabbit? This path leads over what was once the filthy realm of Dearne Valley Colliery - now green and tree-lined, disguising the industrial history of this place. In memory of all the brave South Yorkshire coal miners.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 21 May 2015
0.12 miles
10
Little Houghton and Adjoining Farmland
Pictured from a footpath which climbs out of the Dearne Valley towards the village.
Image: © Jonathan Clitheroe
Taken: 1 Feb 2017
0.13 miles