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slabs, link the quarry to Well Hill Road. Victoria Quarry is to the northeast of the village, close to Wortley Top Forge. Close by is a stack of stone slabs, presumably left when the quarry closed. There were a number of other small quarries in the area. Since the last quarry closed in 1936, all have been filled in to some degree. The village has an old well pumphouse and a set of village
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came from Green Moor. Later transport was by rail from Wortley Station, where there was a stone sawmill. Green Moor Delf Quarry stretched back from the former Rock Inn. Trunce or California Quarry is to the North West, below the village. The remains of a "Stoneway", a roadway of channelled stone
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flavour than most village sings, and its village anthem is "Christians awake". From 1900 to the 1970s Greenmoor singers would travel by foot for up to 12 hours of visiting houses and performing the local songs. The Walton family performed accompaniment on stringed instruments. The tradition
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The parish council worked to purchase a plot of former quarry land known as the "Isle of Skye", for which the parish clerk, David Horsfall, received an MBE from the Queen in 2015 for services to the community. The Isle of Skye is now public land for use by all residents and visitors.
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quarries in the area were once worked on a large scale. During the nineteenth century stone paving was transported by sea to London. There was a Greenmoor Wharf at Southwark (and a Greenmoor Road in Enfield, London), and some of the stone flags around the
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was built in the nineteenth century by subscription from local workers and is still used for worship. Like many villages in the area, Greenmoor was and still is part of the north Sheffield local Christmas carolling tradition, with a more
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in the last century but has since become a predominantly commuter and retirement village. Green Moor is also the site of activity centre used by the Sheffield and District
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newsletter serves the village and surrounding parish and is available on Barnsley Council's website.
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continues, though cars are now usually used to replace the long walks.
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Green Moor is located in South Yorkshire
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