Chapeltown is located 7 miles (11 km) south of the centre of Barnsley and approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of the centre of the city of Sheffield, it lies on the railway between Barnsley and Sheffield.

Between Chapeltown and Ecclesfield the land is used for residential purposes on one side of the main road and agricultural on the other.

Until industrial expansion, Chapeltown was a hamlet that originated at the intersection of the roads between Sheffield and Barnsley and between Rotherham and Wortley.

In the late 16th century a blast furnace was installed there which initially used charcoal, and from 1780 was fired with coke.

[4] Initially they were an iron works specialising in cast iron products, but over time the company expanded into related mining industries and products from the fractional distillation of coal, including the Izal disinfectant range.