Penistone and Stocksbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 53°30′29″N 1°36′25″W / 53.508°N 1.607°W / 53.508; -1.607

Penistone and Stocksbridge is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Angela Smith of the Labour Party.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

The Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley wards of Dodworth, Penistone East, and Penistone West, and the City of Sheffield wards of East Ecclesfield, Stocksbridge and Upper Don, and West Ecclesfield.

History

The seat largely resembles the old Penistone Constituency, which, following the election of a Conservative in the Conservative landslide in 1931, returned MPs representing the Labour Party through to its abolition in 1983.

In 1983, two new constituencies were formed, Sheffield Hillsborough and Barnsley West and Penistone, both of which returned Labour MPs at every election they were fought. The 2010 result was that of a marginal Labour majority.

Constituency profile

The seat is most heavily populated on its eastern fringe, with communities built largely on the coal and steel industries, such as the ex-mining village of Dodworth and the steelworking town of Stocksbridge. Penistone too has a history of steelworking at the David Brown and high-tech foundries although many local people are or have been employed at the Hepworth pipeworks (formerly Hepworth Iron Co./Hepworth Building Products) which specialising in the manufacture of pipes, mains and domestic and whose fortunes vary with demand in construction. Between these urban areas are rural villages including Oxspring, Wortley, Greenmoor and Thurgoland occupied mostly by commuters to Sheffield (also Leeds and Manchester). The western area of the constituency is in the Peak District National Park.

The seat contains three significant stately homes. Cannon Hall (home of the Spencer-Stanhope family of Pre-Raphaelites) is open-the-public as the 13th/18th Royal Hussars Museum, while Wortley Hall (ancestral home of the Wortley-Montagu family) is largely used by trade unions and their families, and the third is Wentworth Castle,where an adult educational establishment, Northern College, is based.^{[n 3]}

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

* Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament

See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in South Yorkshire

Notes and references

Notes

References

Sources

• Sheffield Recommendations of the Boundary Commission for England.
• Summary of the Sheffield Parliamentary Boundary Review.