England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Barnsley
Barnsley is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 245,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Barnsley, with about 71 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- LBA37 km · Leeds Bradford Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Barnsley
Barnsley is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. It is the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire.
Some 300 million years ago, a vast triangle of swamp and forest became buried, and morphed into the York-Derby-Notts coalfield, with one large component being the South Yorkshire coalfield. The coal outcropped in the west towards the Pennines, becoming deeper to the east beyond Doncaster, so it was easily mined around Barnsley from medieval times. First excavations were simple pits dug into outcrops, deepening into "drifts", then "room and pillar" techniques, then sideways-creeping tunnels for long-wall mining and total extraction.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Barnsley
See
- Barnsley Town Hall
- Cooper Gallery
- Monk Bretton Priory
- Cannon Hall
- Silkstone
- Wentworth Castle Gardens
- Elsecar
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Do
- Parkway Cinema
- Barnsley FC
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Barnsley
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Barnsley hotel | 71 | 4.4/5 554 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Barnsley
8 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Pinfold Hotel | 5.0 km | |
| The Queens Hotel | 0.1 km | |
| The Royal Hotel | 0.2 km | |
| Travellers' Inn | 3.5 km | |
| Ye Olde Mustard Pot | 12.9 km | |
| Holiday Inn Barnsley | 3.0 km | |
| Lyndene | 10.5 km | |
| OYO Ye Olde Mustard Pot OYO Rooms | 12.9 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Barnsley
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Barnsley are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; August is the wettest, with about 65 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Barnsley: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), about 37 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 58 km) and Humberside Airport (HUY, 75 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
The M1 runs a couple of miles west of town, use jcn 37 onto A628. Trains from London St Pancras run to Sheffield twice an hour, change there for frequent trains to Barnsley heading for Leeds or Huddersfield; travel time is just under 3 hours. Change in Sheffield or Leeds for most other destinations, but there's also an hourly train from Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate, Barnsley and Sheffield to Nottingham, and a train three times a day from York via Pontefract to Barnsley and Sheffield. Barnsley Interchange is the transport hub, with both the railway and bus station.
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LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
MAN · Manchester Airport
HUY · Humberside Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Barnsley
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Barnsley: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Barnsley?
By published guest score: Travelodge Barnsley (4.4 / 5 · 554 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Barnsley?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Barnsley are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; August is the wettest, with about 65 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Barnsley?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), about 37 km from the city centre in a straight line; Manchester Airport (MAN, 58 km) and Humberside Airport (HUY, 75 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Barnsley?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Barnsley
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.