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Elsecar: the original northern powerhouse


The village of Elsecar was originally devised as a model village. A symbol of power and ambition, Elsecar was a predecessor of industrial model villages like Saltaire, Bournville and Port Sunlight.


And now, over 200 years later, its legacy as


the original northern powerhouse remains intact. Over half a million people visit Elsecar


each year to enjoy fun trips out and revel in its historical glory because, incredibly, almost all the original buildings built by the Earls Fitzwilliam in their industrial heyday remain today – albeit with a widely divergent variety of uses. Thanks to a three-year partnership between


Barnsley Museums and Historic England, 16 of the village’s buildings now have new or upgraded listed status, highlighting their importance to Britain’s 18th and 19th century history.


When trade took off for the Earls Fitzwilliam


of Wentworth Woodhouse in the early 1800s, they created an expanding village bursting with workshops, mighty ironworks and deep, dark collieries. This would go on to become an international centre of innovation and industry. And what followed was a wealth of investment into social housing, education and communal resources to benefit the welfare of their workers. The New Yard, built in 1850, once housed the


workshops of engineers, blacksmiths, joiners, carpenters and other skilled workers from the Wentworth estate. But since the 1980s, the now


Grade II* listed workshops have become a unique open-air shopping experience filled with a range of local independent retailers. On your next visit, you will find a variety of


traders selling everything from women’s fashion and shoes to art and craft supplies or home and


28 aroundtownmagazine.co.uk


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