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Join us at Holmfirth Parish Church for our open day on the 13th September.

Open day featuring refreshments, guided tours, and talks from local experts.

Explore the church and churchyard. The church dates from 1753 and contains monuments and memorials to the Wortley family (the Earls of Wharncliffe). The church tower will be open for guided tours to see the bells and a demonstration of bell ringing.

An early Quaker Meeting House with its origins in the late 17th century.

A Grade II* Listed building, designed by Sir Basil Spence, is open with refreshments available throughout the day. There'll be talks at 11am and 1pm by Dr. Louise Hampson from York Uni about St Paul's Church and its links with Coventry Cathedral

Visit this surviving Victorian colliery site. Sunk for Earl Fitzwilliam in the 1840s as Elsecar Low pit, working the Barnsley seam until 1920 when it was converted into a pumping station and survived the closure of the industry. Run by volunteers.

The building (formerly St. John the Evangelist Church, 1872) will be open to visitors on the 13th and 14th of September. Architect W H Crossland. Refreshments available.

Exhibition of church and village historical photographs and other archives and our collection of stained glass windows.

Pre-booking not required. Parking at front and north side of church. Accessible Toilets. Exhibition re: building and consecration in 1872. Light refreshments.

Historic Church with display of local history pictures and expert available for information regarding genealogy and local burials.

This church was greatly restored in the 14th century and has many interesting features. The belfry dates from the same time and will be open on the day. There will be people ready to answer questions and provide details.

St Thomas' is a small, Grade II listed, parish church set in a hilltop village above Holmfirth in West Yorkshire We will explore the heritage & architecture of the church with its original architectural features and its connection with the village

Barnsley Main Heritage Group volunteers will be on site with informative and interesting walks, talks and artefacts related to the site and local coal mining history. Visit our on-site pop-up-museum, read numerous information boards.

Guided walk around Rectory Park, Thornhill. The park features, amongst other things, a moated island where the ruins of Thornhill Hall dating back to 1450 still stand, despite its near destruction in 1648, during the English Civil War.

Holmfirth's former church lock up or jail.

A landlord buried where his kitchen garden once stood; a victim of the Holmfirth floods and a young girl struck by lightening!

A vicar’s wife shot, the local myth of ‘traitle oil’ and 93000 soldiers from the Royal Corps of Signals… join us on a walk around the oldest part of Kirkburton to discover the rich and fascinating history of this West Yorkshire Village.

Join us for the return of our popular machine rally, to embrace the art of engineering and the mechanics of mining. See vintage vehicles and mining machinery, with demonstrations and activities across site.

There has been a school on this site since 1547. From 1608 until 1974 it was a boys' Grammar School. It is now a flourishing mixed comprehensive school. Some of the buildings still in use date back to 1750.

Two-day history event celebrating Worsbrough's wonderful architecture and the rich industrial and social heritage. There will be several exhibitions and family friendly activities as well as guided tours of the Mill building.

How do you build a cemetery? We'll show you the step-by-step journey of how Wombwell Cemetery came to be, including the acquisition of the land, the construction of the gothic chapels, the patchwork of extensions, and the recent conservation efforts.

This beautiful old chapel, little changed from when it was built during the life of John Wesley, and visited by him in 1788, it is still used for weekly worship. An extension added in 1882-3 for a boiler room and vestry now houses the village museum.

Join us at St John’s, Upper Hopton, as we celebrate 25 years of the stunning Millennium Window - designed and painted by local artists, Anne and Vince Seabourne, and the exciting heritage tower repair project, partly completed last year.

This hidden gem of a museum houses a wealth of unique exhibits including a fabulous collection of Bolsterstone glassware & Midhope Pottery. Meet local experts and discover why Stocksbridge is the birthplace of the modern umbrella!

This simple chapel that has met for independent Christian worship since 1692

Appreciate the history and setting of the 365-year-old High Flatts Quaker Meeting House which is a grade II listed building along with its surroundings and panoramic views to the East.

Visitors will be able to explore the oldest crucible steel making furnace in South Yorkshire ,dating from 1797.

This small museum, in a former Weaver's Cottage, comprises: downstairs the family living quarters of a hand-loom weaver c1900; and upstairs a working handloom along with fascinating displays and artefacts linked to our textile heritage.

This walk will cover the known development and use of the monument from the Mesolithic to Modern Times.

Join us for a guided walk around Stocksbridge in the beautiful Little Don valley, a town which has grown around the steelworks of Samuel Fox, founded in 1842, and many of the buildings are his legacy.

Join us for a walking tour around the community gardens and open spaces of Hillsborough, Malin Bridge, Wisewood, and Wadsley, whilst looking at the history of the area. The day will mark the launch of a walking trail project linking the sites.

The house was completed and given Passivhaus status in 2019. Pre-bookable tours will take place on Friday September 19th at 10.00am and 12.00 noon.

All Hallows' Church, Kirkburton open Sat 13th Sept 10.00-15.30 and Sun 21st Sept 12.30-15.30. Explore this medieval church; meet the Adopt-a-Grave and Burial Ground Teams; join a Celebration of our Heritage through Architecture.