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unusual facts about Penistone


Dearne FM

The station's strapline is "Hits and Memories across Barnsley, Penistone and the Dearne Valley" or simply "Hits and Memories".


Angela C. Smith

During her tenure Smith worked to reinstate the former Woodhead Line between Hadfield and Penistone.

Angela Smith

Angela C. Smith (born 1961), Labour Member of UK Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge, previously for Sheffield Hillsborough

Ched Evans

After signing for Sheffield United, Evans moved to Millhouse Green, Penistone in the nearby Barnsley area.

Hillsborough House

The grounds were much more extensive than the present Hillsborough Park, stretching north to the current junction of Leppings Lane and Penistone Road, and included the site on which Hillsborough Stadium now stands.

Sir Thomas Penyston, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Penistone was among thirty gentlemen in the retinue of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset - “one of the seventeenth century’s most accomplished gamblers and wastrels”.

Sir Thomas Penistone subsequently settled in Cornwell, Oxfordshire, and sometime after 1622, he married again, to Elizabeth Watson, daughter of Sir Thomas Watson and widow of Sir William Pope.


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