Crow Edge

Crow Edge is a hamlet in Dunford civil parish,[1] situated on the A616, two miles southeast of Hepworth, West Yorkshire in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

Since about 1857[2] Crow Edge has been home to the Hepworth Iron Company's coal mines, fire clay pits and clay products works,[3] later Hepworth Building Products Ltd.'s pipe works.

Thereby making the site, the largest waste wood recycling facility in the United Kingdom.

[5] From 1846 to 1950 Hazlehead Bridge railway station, on the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway 's Woodhead Line, provided a rail link for passenger traffic by bus service to Huddersfield, via Crow Edge and Honley.

[6] From 1857 to 1960 there was goods traffic on the mineral line from Hazlehead Bridge to Crow Edge, where the Hepworth Iron Company had an ironworks, collieries, coke ovens and a fireclay quarry.