Scholes is a Village in the county of South Yorkshire.

Retail in Scholes

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

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

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

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

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

Scholes History

There are some historic monuments around Scholes:

• Canklow Hill earthworks
• Kimberworth motte and bailey castle
• Roman Ridge: SE of Hill Top (section 700yds (660m) long, Meadowhall Road to Hill Top)
• Roman Ridge: section 500yds (460m) long, N of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park
• Monk Bretton Priory Cluniac and Benedictine monastery: monastic precinct and two fishponds
• Old Bridge
• Swinton Pottery (The Rockingham Works), 310m and 120m north west of Keeper's Cottage
• The former Elsecar Ironworks
• Kimberworth Manor moated site
• Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long S of Abdy Farm
• The former Elsecar New Colliery, including the Elsecar Newcomen Engine
• Mousehole Forge, Malin Bridge
• Roman Ridge (Roman road): section S of Hoober House
• Handlands Romano-British settlement, 460m south west of Woodseats Farm
• Blue Man's Bower moated site, Whiston
• Bower Spring cementation furnace
• Roman Ridge: section 180yds (160m) long on SE slopes of Wincobank Hill
• Dovecote at Glebe Farm
• Wincobank slight univallate hillfort and World War II anti-aircraft gun and searchlight emplacement
• Roman Ridge: section 140yds (130m) long in Dyson's Plantation
• Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long from Hill Top Lane to Little Common Lane
• Romano-British settlements in Wombwell Wood
• Hood Hill shaft mounds, 480m east of Hood Hill Farm
• Roman Ridge: section 110yds (100m) long, 450yds (410m) NNE of Kimberworth Park Farm
• File factory, 11 High Street
• Roman Ridge: section 250yds (230m) in length N of Kimberworth Park Road
• The glassworks cone
• Roman Ridge: section 300yds (270m) long on Birchcliff Bank
• Manor Lodge
• Rockley blast furnace
• Roman Ridge: section 330yds (300m) long, S of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park
• Romano-British field system and settlement at Wheata Wood
• Cementation furnace, Hoyle Street
• Former Sanderson's Darnall Steelworks and Don Valley Glassworks, Darnall Road
• Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
• Rockley engine house
• Hemingfield Colliery
• Roman Ridge (Roman road): section 135yds (120m) long, E of Hoober House
• Roman Ridge: section 520yds (480m) E of Dyson's Cottage to Long Plantation
• Willow Garth moated site and fishpond, Ecclesfield
• Roman Ridge: section 600yds (550m) long between Jenkin Lane (now Road) and Tylers Street
• Standing cross at the Church of St Mary
• Cross in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Darfield
• Roman Ridge (Roman road): section 300yds (270m) long on Clay Hill
• Roman Ridge: section 300yds (270m) long N of Birchwood (E of Chemical Cottages)
• Caesar's Camp, Scholes Coppice
• Wayside and boundary cross on the south side of Elliott Lane
• Hoffman Kiln between Aizlewood Road and Cutts Terrace
• Roman Ridge: section 400yds (370m) long in Wath Wood