Pilley is a Village in the county of South Yorkshire.

Retail in Pilley

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

Wath-upon-Dearne is a great place to visit close to Pilley if you like towns.

The area around Pilley boasts some of the best cities including Sheffield, and Doncaster.

The area around Pilley features a number of interesting shopping centres including Meadowhall, and Frenchgate Centre.

Pilley is near some unmissable airports like Doncaster Sheffield Airport,

Pilley History

There are some historic monuments around Pilley:

• Wincobank slight univallate hillfort and World War II anti-aircraft gun and searchlight emplacement
• Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds
• Low Mill furnace
• Roman Ridge: section 600yds (550m) long between Jenkin Lane (now Road) and Tylers Street
• Willow Garth moated site and fishpond, Ecclesfield
• Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church
• Rockley engine house
• The former Elsecar New Colliery, including the Elsecar Newcomen Engine
• Roman Ridge: section 180yds (160m) long on SE slopes of Wincobank Hill
• Hood Hill shaft mounds, 480m east of Hood Hill Farm
• Water powered bloomery, iron forge and rolling mill at Low Forge
• Romano-British field system and settlement at Wheata Wood
• Caesar's Camp, Scholes Coppice
• Hemingfield Colliery
• Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
• Handlands Romano-British settlement, 460m south west of Woodseats Farm
• Romano-British settlements at Finkle Street
• Castle Hill motte and bailey castle, High Bradfield
• Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long from Hill Top Lane to Little Common Lane
• Romano-British settlements in Wombwell Wood
• Rockley blast furnace
• Wortley Top Forge
• Roman Ridge: SE of Hill Top (section 700yds (660m) long, Meadowhall Road to Hill Top)
• Wayside and boundary cross on the south side of Elliott Lane
• Wayside cross known as Kirk Cross
• 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
• File factory, 11 High Street
• Monk Bretton standing cross
• Dovecote at Glebe Farm
• The former Elsecar Ironworks
• Standing cross at the Church of St Mary
• Wayside cross known as the Cundy Cross