Silkstone

Silkstone
Village and civil parish
Church of All Saints, Silkstone
Silkstone is located in South Yorkshire
Silkstone
Silkstone
Location within South Yorkshire
Population3,153 (2011)
OS grid referenceSE289058
Civil parish
  • Silkstone
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBarnsley
Postcode districtS75
Dialling code01226
PoliceSouth Yorkshire
FireSouth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
Websitehttp://www.silkstoneparishcouncil.gov.uk/
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
53°32′56″N 1°33′48″W / 53.5489°N 1.5634°W / 53.5489; -1.5634

Silkstone is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, between the towns of Barnsley and Penistone. The parish includes the village of Silkstone Common. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,954,[1] increasing to 3,153 at the 2011 Census.[2]

Silkstone Parish is twinned with Saint-Florent-des-Bois in France.

  1. ^ Census 2001 Archived 22 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 March 2016.