Silkstone Common is a Village in the county of South Yorkshire.

Silkstone Common postcode: S75 4QP

Retail in Silkstone Common

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

There are a several good towns in the area around Silkstone Common like Wath-upon-Dearne.

Sheffield, and Doncaster are some of Silkstone Common best cities to visit near Silkstone Common.

Silkstone Common's best nearby shopping centres can be found at Meadowhall, and Frenchgate Centre.

Airports to visit near Silkstone Common include Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Silkstone Common History

There are some historic monuments around Silkstone Common:

• Rockley engine house
• Water powered bloomery, iron forge and rolling mill at Low Forge
• Romano-British field system and settlement at Wheata Wood
• Emley Day Holes, 200m east of Churchill Farm
• Anglo-Saxon period cross in churchyard of All Saints
• Iron Age and Roman quern workings on Wharncliffe Rocks
• Wortley Top Forge
• Willow Garth moated site and fishpond, Ecclesfield
• Cowell Flat prehistoric field system, 350m south east of Mortimer House
• Low Mill furnace
• Cairnfield on Broomhead Moor, 500m north west of Mortimer House
• Ewden Beck round barrow cemetery and cross-dyke
• Romano-British settlements at Finkle Street
• Wayside cross south of Hartcliff Road
• Standing cross at the Church of St Mary
• Handlands Romano-British settlement, 460m south west of Woodseats Farm
• Ewden Beck ring-cairn.
• Iron mining shaft mounds and medieval earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm
• Ring cairn, 340m north west of Mortimer House
• Dovecote at Glebe Farm
• Wayside and boundary cross on the south side of Elliott Lane
• Wayside cross at Howbrook crossroads
• File factory, 11 High Street
• Standing cross at Emley
• Wayside cross known as the Cundy Cross
• Rockley blast furnace
• The Bar Dyke linear earthwork
• Late prehistoric settlement in Notton Park, 650m north west of Lee Lane Farm
• Glass furnace, Bolsterstone
• Silkstone 17th century glassworks and 18th century pottery, 180m east of All Saints Church
• East Gawber Hall colliery fanhouse, 800m north east of Croft Farm