Cubley, South Yorkshire
Cubley is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is located about a mile to the south of Penistone town centre and essentially is now a part of Penistone.
Originally Cubley consisted of the few houses now situated on the southern edge of the village and the associated nearby farms and Cubley Hall (initially a farm and country residence, then an orphanage and now a pub, restaurant and hotel). Now due to extensive building in the 20th and early 21st Centuries these old cottages are now connected right up to Penistone town itself.
Cubley currently has no shops or other services (other than Cubley Hall) serving the village and people have to walk (or catch the bus) for the mile or so trip in to Penistone town centre for their basic shopping.
Cubley has no schools, with most children going to St John the Baptist Infant and Junior Schools in Penistone and then on to Penistone Grammar School.
History of Cubley
Prior to the 20th Century Cubly was little more than a collection of cottages, a few farms and Cubley Hall. The cottages that made up Cubley are now referred to as 'Old Cubley' and lie at the southern edge of Cubley, farthest from Penistone. During the first 30 years of the 20th Century a number of houses were build along the main road from Pensitone. Sporadically this house building continued throughout the 20th Centruy.
The vinegar brewary used to sit at Cubley Brook at the bottom of the big dip in the rpad from Penistone. This closed in the 1960s or 1970s. The land was mostly converted in to houses during the 1980s.
During the 1980s and possibly earlier a house on Mortimer Road (just before Cubley Hall on the road from Penistone) had a shop in it's garage. This was the only shop in Cubley. Some point before the early 1990s this shop closed and left Cubley totally relaint on the shops in Penistone.
During the 1990s an attempt was made to build on the land between Cubley and old Cubley. This failed when the company funding the project went bust. This left two half built buildings. The intended use was likley to be office buildings or perhaps an old people's home.
Around the turn of the Millennium or possible a few years either side the last large building project in Cubley happened - the construction of a new housing estate to the south of the houses in Cubley. This finally joined up the cottages of old Cubley with a continous line of development right in to Penistone town.
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