Hoyland is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.[3] The town is home to an 18th-century folly called Lowe Stand, built as a lookout and hunting lodge shortly before his death by the first Marquess of Rockingham, at the highest point in the area some 593 ft above sea level.[5] The Roman Catholic church (1929) is of brick and tile construction in the Italian Romanesque style, with a square bell tower.Netherfield House is situated near the town centre and Hoyland's oldest known surviving residence and at one time the home of a Townend, being in recent years used as a dentist's, is situated in West Street (formerly Finkle Street).Many of Hoyland's fine Georgian properties, consisting of cottages, shops and chapels were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s.