Ingbirchworth is a village in the

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Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, Barnsley district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. It contains the hamlet of Gunthwaite and the village of Ingbirchworth. At the 2001 Census, the ...

in the

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district of

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, England. It is close to the boundary with

Kirklees Kirklees is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England. The borough comprises the ten towns of Batley, Birstall, West Yorkshire, Birstall, Cleckheaton, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Meltham, Mirfield and Slaithwaite. It ...

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. At the 2001 Census, the parish population was 400, and it increased to 460 at the 2011 Census, and is now estimated to be around 600. Ingbirchworth Reservoir - geograph

The village is notable for its reservoir, the oldest of the three situated in the area (the others being Royd Moor and Scout Dike). During extreme droughts in the summer the reservoir has dried up to the extent that the old bridge over the original stream, Summer Ford Bridge, can be seen. Development is mostly laid out along two roads: older houses and farms along the former turnpike, Huddersfield Road, the A629 and newer housing estates along Wellthorne Lane. It has one

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, the Fountain Inn, which reopened in 2021 having been saved from demolition. There is an agricultural suppliers and hardware shop on the edge of the village on Huddersfield Road. The Grange is the oldest extant building in the village, dating to 1624. This and a number of other properties in the older part of the village are

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Recent changes

The Rose And Crown public house was demolished in 2006 and its site was redeveloped for housing. The

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church was sold in 2014 and has been converted to dwellings. On 6 November 2015, a new war memorial was dedicated on a site on Wellthorne Avenue. This is the first permanent memorial of its type in the village. The village shop closed in 2016 but a handful of "honesty box" local producers have opened up in the last couple of years.

Governance

Ingbirchworth was a

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in the ancient parish of

Penistone Penistone ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 13,270 at the 2021 census. Historic counties of England, Historically in ...

. Ingbirchworth was a

from 1866 until 1 April 1938 when the parish was abolished and merged with Gunthwaite to form "Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth". In 1931 the parish had a population of 274.

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Villages in South Yorkshire Former civil parishes in South Yorkshire Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley {{SouthYorkshire-geo-stub

Recent changes

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