Brierley
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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
- Country
- United Kingdom
- 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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- Brierley
- OS grid reference
- SE410110
- postal code
- S72
- historic county
- Yorkshire
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- History
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- Notable people
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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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