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6 unusual facts about Stocksbridge


St Mary's Church, Bolsterstone

A vicarage was added in 1862, in 1870 Bolsterstone became a parish in its own right and included nearby Stocksbridge and Deepcar.

Steel Valley

Stocksbridge, the valley that Stocksbridge is situated in is known as "The Steel Valley" due to its long history of Steel Production

Stocksbridge

Samuel Fox & Co joined Steel, Peech and Tozer at Templeborough to form the United Steel Companies (USC) following the First World War.

The new road links the M1 motorway at Junction 35A (and J36) to the Woodhead pass (which is one of the main trans-Pennine routes from Sheffield to Manchester) bypassing the towns of Stocksbridge and Deepcar, taking away the steelworks traffic through the town as well.

This was the Stocksbridge Railway, which existed as a subsidiary company until 1992.

Stocksbridge Works F.C.

Stocksbridge Works F.C. was a football club based in Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire, England.


Andy Nicholson

An attendee of Stocksbridge High School, Nicholson was the only member of the Arctic Monkeys to not live in the High Green district, residing in nearby Hillsborough.

Angela Smith

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

Langsett Reservoir

This involved a journey over four different stretches of railway line, the first leg was from Sheffield Midland Station to Deepcar, this was followed by a journey to Stocksbridge on the Samuel Fox and Company private line.

United Steel Companies

The company was registered in 1918 and the following year saw a joining together of steel makers Samuel Fox and Company of Stocksbridge; Steel, Peech and Tozer of Templeborough and Ickles in Rotherham; the Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company of Scunthorpe; and the coal mining and by-products interests of Rother Vale Collieries at Orgreave, Treeton and Thurcroft.

Nowadays the steel interests at Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Stocksbridge are part of Tata Steel and all the mining interests have been closed, the last, at Treeton, in the 1990s.

Warren Lee

Lee Warren (born 1969), English footballer who plays for Stocksbridge Park Steels

Willie Thorne

He currently lives in Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, England and is married to former librarian in Stocksbridge Library and Miss Great Britain winner Jill Saxby.


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