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Also known as Brierley, South Yorkshire

Brierley () is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with West Yorkshire, it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road, and is less than to the south west of Hemsworth.

Key facts

UK place.map_type
South Yorkshire
UK place.country
England
UK place.official_name
Brierley
UK place.static_image_name
Three Horseshoes pub in Brierly.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
The Three Horseshoes Pub in Brierley
UK place.population
7,267
UK place.population_ref
(2011 census)
UK place.metropolitan_borough
Barnsley
UK place.metropolitan_county
South Yorkshire
UK place.region
Yorkshire and the Humber
UK place.constituency_westminster
Barnsley East
UK place.post_town
Barnsley
UK place.postcode_district
S72
UK place.postcode_area
S
UK place.dial_code
01226
UK place.os_grid_reference
SE410110
UK place.london_distance_mi
150
UK place.london_direction
SSE

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Wikidata facts

Located in
Barnsley
Population
5973
Time zone
UTC±00:00
Image
Brierley, St Paul's Church - geograph.org.uk - 226729.jpg
Dialing code
01226
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Commons category
Brierley
OS grid reference
SE410110
postal code
S72
historic county
Yorkshire
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Civil parish
  • Notable people
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Brierley () is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. The settlement is tightly clustered and green buffered on a modest escarpment close to the border with West Yorkshire, it is almost wholly in population south of the A628 road, and is less than to the south west of Hemsworth.

Its late nineteenth century founded civil parish contained the pit village of Grimethorpe, and at the 2001 census had a population of 5,973, increasing to 7,267 in the 2011 Census. Brierley is at its core approximately above sea level on gently undulating slopes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brierley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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