Silkstone

Silkstone
Silkstone
Village and civil parish
	Church of All Saints, Silkstone
	Silkstone Location within South Yorkshire
Population	3,153 (2011)
OS grid reference	SE289058
Civil parish	Silkstone;
Metropolitan borough	Barnsley;
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Barnsley
Postcode district	S75
Dialling code	01226
Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Penistone and Stocksbridge;
Website	http://www.silkstoneparishcouncil.gov.uk/
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°32′56″N 1°33′48″W / 53.5489°N 1.5634°W

Silkstone is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, between the towns of Barnsley and Penistone. The parish includes the village of Silkstone Common. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,954,^[1] increasing to 3,153 at the 2011 Census.^[2]

Silkstone Parish is twinned with Saint-Florent-des-Bois in France.

^ Census 2001 Archived 22 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 5 March 2016.

Silkstone
Village and civil parish
Church of All Saints, Silkstone
Silkstone Location within South Yorkshire
Population	3,153 (2011)
OS grid reference	SE289058
Civil parish	Silkstone
Metropolitan borough	Barnsley
Metropolitan county	South Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Barnsley
Postcode district	S75
Dialling code	01226

Police	South Yorkshire
Fire	South Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire

UK Parliament	Penistone and Stocksbridge
Website	http://www.silkstoneparishcouncil.gov.uk/
List of places UK England Yorkshire 53°32′56″N 1°33′48″W / 53.5489°N 1.5634°W / 53.5489; -1.5634