Beth England & John stones

What?
Why is Worsborough not Barnsley, or Wombwell, or Darton, or any other area of Barnsley….

 

In Pontefract there's Chequerfield but that's just the name of a housing estate. Penistone is a separate town though so why's it Barnsley? Is it just the borough?

 

It’s Barnsley council that I paid my council tax to, never really understood why ppl claimed it to be sheffield

 

Well the metropolitan borough of Barnsley is Barnsley…
Pontefract and Castleford are in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield. Which spreads all the way to South Emsall in the South East, Ossett in the West and Knottingley in the East

 

The Northern border must be between Allerton Bywater and Castleford. I know that because patients brought into hospital by patient transport from Allerton Bywater are brought in by Leeds drivers.

 

It's part of the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, like Holmfirth is to Kirklees and Garforth to Leeds etc etc.

Not sure why people find it so confusing?

 

A postcode and address doesn’t legally define where a place is. They’re simply created and assigned to work with Royal Mail’s infrastructure for deliveries - that’s it! Penistone has a Sheffield address and postcode because it’s closest to Stocksbridge Delivery Office. Thurnscoe, Bolton, and Goldthorpe all have a Rotherham address and postcode because they’re closest to Manvers Delivery Office. There’s no point sending Mail and parcels for those areas to Barnsley Delivery Office when there are other Delivery Offices that are better placed geographically. They’re all still towns and ‘villages’ within the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley.

 

I worked with his Mum in Hemsworth and she most definitely identified as a Barnsley lass.

 

Using your logic then Cleethorpes is in Donny despite being a 50 Nile drive away

 

If he lost his birth certificate he'd have to go to Barnsley to get a new copy & not Sheffield, he's a Barnsley lad.

 

She's come a long way since serving rowdy drunks at Wellington Street Chippy on a Saturday night.

 

Wombwell, Hoyland, Royston, Penistone were all towns in the West Riding near Barnsley until local government reorganisation created the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough which swallowed up these towns and other villages like Dodworth, Worsbrough, Darfield, Goldthorpe etc thereby increasing Barnsley population from 75,000 to 225,000 overnight.

 

There’s a clip on Twitter, that did the rounds a few years since, of him on England duty, and Kyle Walker is ribbing him about being from Sheffield.
Stones tells him, proudly, that he is from Barnsley, not Sheffield.
Straight from the horse’s mouth.

 

It’s still available on YouTube

 

I used to work in Sherburn in elmet, which is classed as N. Yorkshire. But for some weird reason it still has an LS Leeds postcode.

 

When I was a boy, nobody regarded Penistone as being part of Barnsley. It became part of the Metropolitan Borough Of Barnsley, as part of local government reorganisation in 1974. The border of the County Borough Of Barnsley, which existed from 1913 until then, comprised largely areas fairly close to the town centre and had a population of just over 70,000. Wombwell, Hoyland, Elsecar etc., were likewise not really considered to be part of Barnsley. They were in the large West Riding Authority. Barnsley, as a county borough, was independent of the West Riding, and had its own fire service, ambulance service etc.

 

You could say the same about Monk Bretton, Athersley, Pogmoor etc.