Barnsley

Worth seeing in and around Barnsley

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Oakwell

   Football stadium

   1.1 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Wentworth Castle

   Grade I listed historic house museum in Stainborough, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

   3.7 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church of All Saints, Silkstone

   Anglican church in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, UK

   5.2 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Church of All Saints

   Anglican church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

   5 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Holy Rood Church, Barnsley

   Catholic church building in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

   100 m · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Pot House Hamlet

   Industrial site in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

   5.1 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Barnsley College

   College in Barnsley, UK

   500 m · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Church of St Mary

   Church in the village of Worsbrough, South Yorkshire, England, UK

   3.5 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   St Mary's Church

   Church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

   600 m · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Locke Park

    Park in Barnsley, UK

    900 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Barnsley

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 37 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · East Midlands (EMA), 81 km

Stations

Wombwell railway station, 5.7 km · Silkstone Common railway station, 5.6 km · Dodworth railway station, 3.3 km · Darton railway station, 5.3 km · Monk Bretton railway station, 3.7 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barnsley

  50 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £5–7
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barnsley

  70 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10
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• Liverpool → Barnsley

  100 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £11–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Barnsley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barnsley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Barnsley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.