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   What does Penistone mean?

   • Penistone is situated on a high ridge, which is believed to be the source of its name. (‘Pen’ is celtic for a hill. ‘Stune’ meaning is a settlement. The ‘s’ represents ‘by’. Hence settlement by (or on) the hill.) Penistone town centre is a designated conservation area.

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   What is Penistone known for?

   • Penistone town centre is a designated conservation area. The town is a significant principal town serving the rural hinterland to the west of the borough. From 1699, Penistone held its three day summer fair (10-12 June) and a market every Thursday in front of the church of St. John the Baptist.

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   How did Penistone get its name?

   • The place-name ‘Penistone’ is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Pengestone and Pangeston. Penistone is situated on a high ridge, which is believed to be the source of its name. (‘Pen’ is celtic for a hill. ‘Stune’ meaning is a settlement. The ‘s’ represents ‘by’. Hence settlement by (or on) the hill.)

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   Where is Penistone in Yorkshire?

   • Penistone was a parish in the wapentake of Staincross in the West Riding of Yorkshire and after 1837 was a member of the Wortley Poor law union. Penistone was in the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency until the 2010 general election when it became part of the newly created Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency.

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   Why did Penistone have a market?

   • From 1699, Penistone held its three day summer fair (10-12 June) and a market every Thursday in front of the church of St. John the Baptist. The effect of the market was significant; stimulating trade and commerce and resulting in expansion and an increase in local importance.

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   Is Penistone a railway station?

   • Penistone was formerly a major railway junction, including a depot for engineering trains. Much of the former railway infrastructure has since been removed. The town's station is still open, but is now only served by Huddersfield - Sheffield trains on the "Penistone Line".

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   Penistone (/ ˈ p ɛ n ɪ s t ən / PEN-iss-tən) is a market town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 24,760 at the 2021 census. [1]

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   What does the noun penistone mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun penistone, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. penistone has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. textiles (mid 1500s) geology (late 1600s) See meaning & use.

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   A coarse woollen cloth formerly used to make clothes.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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   The meaning of PENISTON is a coarse woolen cloth used for clothing from the 16th into the 19th century.

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   Penistone town centre is a designated conservation area. The town is a significant principal town serving the rural hinterland to the west of the borough. From 1699, Penistone held its three day summer fair (10-12 June) and a market every Thursday in front of the church of St. John the Baptist.

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   The meaning of Penistone is Old English tun "farm, village" and possibly the Celtic penn meaning hill - similar to Penn in the West Midlands.

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   Penistone is a small market town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a population recorded in 2001 of 10,101. It stands 8 miles west of the town of Barnsley and 17 miles north east of Glossop , in the foothills of the Pennines ; the town centre is at 750 feet above sea level.