Boulder Bridge is an area of land adjacent to a large bird sanctuary run by the
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales and in Scotland. It was founded in 1889. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment thr ...
. The area is synonymous with a number of large scrap yards that specialise, for the most part, in recycling cars and commercial vehicles, mainly
bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
es. The area is the biggest commercial vehicle recycling base in the
UK and is located between the small villages of
Shafton
Shafton is a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Barnsley (borough), Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,840, increasing to 3,44 ...
and Carlton.
In the past
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have battled hard{{how, date=March 2016 to stop the illegal burning of buses on many of these yards and the environmental impact of them is still contentious.
Geography of Barnsley