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Barnsley

Barnsley is a large town in in the north of England, nowadays a metropolis. It grew up as a linen-making town, but then in the 18th and 19th century made its living from coal-mining, glass-making and steel.
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  • Type: Town with 245,000 residents
  • Description: town in South Yorkshire, England
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oakwell and Barnsley Interchange.

Stadium
Photo: Martin Thirkettle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a multi-purpose sports ground in Barnsley, , used by Barnsley Football Club for home fixtures, and those of their reserves.

Railway station
Photo: Stanley Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a combined rail and bus station in the centre of Barnsley, . It was first opened in 1850 as Barnsley Exchange railway station and is 16 miles north of Sheffield.

Museum
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Worsbrough and Darton.

Village
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a district 2 to 3 miles south of Barnsley in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, , England. Before 1974, had its own urban district council in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Village
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is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, on the border with , England. At the time of the 2001 UK census, it had a population of 14,927, increasing to 21,345 for both Wards at the 2011 Census. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Barnsley.

Town
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in , England. It had a population of 10,977 in the 2011 Census. The modern village is part of the ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and has a mix of housing types with a great many developments from the inter-war and post-war periods. is situated 3 miles northeast of Barnsley.

Barnsley

Latitude
53.5528° or 53° 33′ 10″ north
Longitude
-1.4828° or 1° 28′ 58″ west
Population
245,000
Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB BSY
Open location code
9C5WHG38+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27330615
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656284
Wiki­data ID
Q54212
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Barnsley” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بارنزلي”
  • Arabic: “بارنسلي”
  • Armenian: “Բարնսլի”
  • Asturian: “Barnsley”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barnsli”
  • Basque: “Barnsley”
  • Belarusian: “Барнслі”
  • Belarusian: “Барнсьлі”
  • Bengali: “বান্সলে”
  • Breton: “Barnsley”
  • Bulgarian: “Барнзли”
  • Catalan: “Barnsley”
  • Cebuano: “Barnsley”
  • Chinese: “巴恩斯利”
  • Chinese: “巴恩斯利都市自治市”
  • Chinese: “巴斯里区”
  • Chinese: “巴斯里區”
  • Chinese: “班士利”
  • Czech: “Barnsley”
  • Danish: “Barnsley”
  • Dutch: “Barnsley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارنسلى”
  • Esperanto: “Barnsley”
  • Estonian: “Barnsley”
  • Finnish: “Barnsley”
  • French: “Barnsley”
  • French: “District métropolitain de Barnsley”
  • German: “Barnsley”
  • German: “Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley”
  • Greek: “Μπάρνσλεϊ”
  • Gujarati: “બાર્નસ્લે”
  • Hebrew: “בארנסלי”
  • Hungarian: “Barnsley”
  • Icelandic: “Barnsley”
  • Indonesian: “Barnsley”
  • Irish: “Barnsley”
  • Italian: “Barnsley”
  • Italian: “Borgo metropolitano di Barnsley”
  • Japanese: “バーンズリー”
  • Japanese: “バーンスレー”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ನ್ಸ್ಲೇ”
  • Korean: “반즐리 도시 자치구”
  • Korean: “반즐리”
  • Ladin: “Barnsley”
  • Latvian: “Bārnsli”
  • Lithuanian: “Barnslis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barnsley”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barnsley”
  • Norwegian: “Barnsley”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barnsley”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beorneslēah”
  • Persian: “بارنزلی”
  • Polish: “Barnsley”
  • Polish: “Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley”
  • Portuguese: “Barnsley”
  • Romanian: “Barnsley”
  • Russian: “Барнсли”
  • Scots: “Barnsley”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barnsley”
  • Serbian: “Барнсли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barnsley”
  • Silesian: “Barnsley”
  • Slovak: “Barnsley”
  • Slovenian: “Barnsley, Južni Yorkshire, Anglija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارنزلی”
  • Spanish: “Barnsley”
  • Spanish: “Municipio metropolitano de Barnsley”
  • Swedish: “Barnsley”
  • Swedish: “Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley”
  • Tamil: “பார்ன்சலே”
  • Tatar: “Барнсли”
  • Telugu: “బార్న్స్లే”
  • Thai: “บาร์นสลีย์”
  • Turkish: “Barnsley”
  • Ukrainian: “Барнслі”
  • Urdu: “بارنزیلی”
  • Volapük: “Barnsley”
  • Welsh: “Barnsley”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Barnsley”
  • Yue Chinese: “班士利”

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