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Worsbrough

Worsbrough is a suburban village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

Worsbrough
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The place

Worsbrough is a suburban village and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It forms a suburban area of Barnsley and until 1974, had its own urban district council in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Much of Worsbrough is now part of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council's, Worsbrough Ward, although certain parts of the historic Worsbrough district, such as Birdwell, Rockley and Blacker Hill, currently lie within neighbouring council wards.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Worsbrough

7 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

    Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports ground in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England used by Barnsley Football Club for home fixtures, and those of their reserves. From 2023, the Barnsley F.C. Women's team also played at the stadium until the club withdrew them from the 2025/26 season.

    3.6 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wentworth Castle

    Wentworth Castle is a grade-I listed country house, the former seat of the Earls of Strafford, at Stainborough, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is now home to the Northern College for Residential and Community Education.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Stainborough, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Rood Church, Barnsley

    Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It was opened in 1905.

    3.5 km · Catholic church building in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hoyland Town Hall

    Hoyland Town Hall is a former municipal building in Hoyland, a town in South Yorkshire in England. The town hall, which was previously the offices and meeting place of Hoyland Urban District Council, is currently in residential use.

    3 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Locke Park

    Locke Park is a 47-acre public open space and one of the largest outdoor green spaces in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. In 1861, Phoebe Locke, widow of railway pioneer Joseph Locke donated the park for the benefit of the people of Barnsley.

    2.8 km · park in Barnsley, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Barnsley College

    Barnsley College is a further education college just outside the town centre of Barnsley, England. It has several campuses, including the SciTech Digital Innovation Centre and The Electric Theatre.

    4 km · college in Barnsley, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Central Offices, Barnsley

    Central Offices was a municipal facility at Kendray Street in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. As County Hall, it was the headquarters of South Yorkshire County Council.

    3.7 km · building in Barnsley, Barnsley, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Worsbrough

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 40 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · East Midlands (EMA), 77 km
Stations
Wombwell railway station, 3.6 km · Elsecar railway station, 3.7 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Worsbrough
    30 km · quickest by road, 46 min · £3.5–4.5
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Worsbrough
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Worsbrough
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–10
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Worsbrough

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 Worsbrough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    315 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    329 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    339 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    363 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    390 km

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

Around it

Next door to Worsbrough

Worsbrough is 15 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barnsleytown in South Yorkshire, England3.8 km
  • Hoylandtown near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England3.1 km
  • Tankersleyvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, UK3.5 km
  • Stainboroughvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2 km
  • Birdwellvillage in South Yorkshire, UK2.4 km
  • Jumpvillage in South Yorkshire, UK3.2 km