Gilroyd is a Village in the county of South Yorkshire.

Gilroyd postcode: S75 3QN

Retail in Gilroyd

There are great places to visit near Gilroyd including some great towns, cities, shopping centres and airports.

The area around Gilroyd's best towns can be found at Wath-upon-Dearne.

Gilroyd has some unmissable cities nearby like Sheffield, and Doncaster.

Meadowhall, and Frenchgate Centre are great places to visit near Gilroyd if you like shopping centres.

There are a number of airports near to Gilroyd including Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Gilroyd History

There are some historic monuments around Gilroyd:

• The former Elsecar Ironworks
• File factory, 11 High Street
• Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church
• Hood Hill shaft mounds, 480m east of Hood Hill Farm
• Iron mining shaft mounds and medieval earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm
• Romano-British settlements at Finkle Street
• Glass furnace, Bolsterstone
• Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
• Late prehistoric settlement in Notton Park, 650m north west of Lee Lane Farm
• Anglo-Saxon period cross in churchyard of All Saints
• Iron Age and Roman quern workings on Wharncliffe Rocks
• East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm
• The former Elsecar New Colliery, including the Elsecar Newcomen Engine
• Wortley Top Forge
• Dovecote at Glebe Farm
• Romano-British field system and settlement at Wheata Wood
• Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds
• Wayside cross known as Kirk Cross
• Wayside cross known as the Cundy Cross
• Willow Garth moated site and fishpond, Ecclesfield
• Handlands Romano-British settlement, 460m south west of Woodseats Farm
• Monk Bretton standing cross
• Water powered bloomery, iron forge and rolling mill at Low Forge
• Wayside and boundary cross on the south side of Elliott Lane
• Rockley blast furnace
• Low Mill furnace
• Romano-British settlements in Wombwell Wood
• Site of post-medieval tannery, Felkirk
• Standing cross at the Church of St Mary
• Rockley engine house