
Yorkshire A to Y
Gazetteer
Barnsley metropolitan district X
Barnsley district is one of four large metropolitan authorities which make up As well as Barnsley itself, the metropolitan district, created in 1974, covers dozens of other towns, villages and hamlets, stretching for around 20 miles east to west and around 10 miles north to south. The total area is around 127 square miles.
The district population is over 244,600 which made it tenth-largest among 20 district authorities wholly within Yorkshire at the time of the 2021 Census. It is now eleventh after the merger of all the North Yorkshire authorities in 2023.
Barnsley district has boundaries with the three other metropolitan districts of South Yorkshire — Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster — as well as with the Wakefield and Kirklees metropolitan districts of West Yorkshire and with the High Peak district of Derbyshire.
Places in the Barnsley metropolitan district are:
Ardsley
Athersley
Barugh Green
Barnsley 
Billingley
Birdwell
Bolton upon Dearne
Brierley
Carlton Barnsley district
Cawthorne
Crow Edge
Cudworth
Darfield
Darton
Dodworth
Dunford Bridge
Elsecar
Goldthorpe
Great Houghton
Grimethorpe
Hemingfield
High Hoyland
Hood Green
Hoyland
Hoyland Common
Hoylandswaine
Ingbirchworth
Jump
Kexbrough
Langsett
Lundwood
Mapplewell
Millhouse Green
Oxspring
Penistone 
Pilley
Royston
Shafton
Silkstone
Silkstone Common
Stainborough
Tankersley
Thurgoland
Thurlstone
Thurnscoe
Wombwell 
Worsbrough
Wortley South YorkshireWe continue to add more villages to our A to Y gazetteer and the above may not yet list all places in Barnsley metropolitan district