The total population of Thurstonland, Stocksmoor and Thunder Bridge together was 953 in the 2001 census.In 1838, upwards of 1,000 small Roman coins of copper and brass were found at Whistones, Stocks Moor.Yet, 'as is often the case in such discoveries, being a stranger to their value, he was induced to part with them to different individuals for a trifling consideration.'It then goes on to describe how they 'understand that among the coins discovered at Thurstonland there are many of the lower empire, several of Carausius, who, it will be remembered, possessed himself of Britain, as emperor, under Dioclesian, and who repaired the Roman wall in Scotland.In the collection purchased by one individual there are the coins of Constantine, Constantius, Lucilius, and others.
New houses in Stocksmoor, Thurstonland, Yorkshire. Stocksmoor is expanding into a village, perhaps because it has a station on the Huddersfield to Sheffield railway. There are more similar houses on the other side of the road.
