Best places: Things to dos in Barnsley, United Kingdom

Large, family-run farm packed with animals, a playground, tube maze and farm shop for fresh produce.

👍👍 Lovely well kept park. Small cafe nice play area and gardens with lake to walk around. Well worth a visit on a nice day

18th-century mansion housing artworks, furniture, and the regimental museum of the Royal Hussars.

This rural park contains sculptures by the likes of Henry Moore & hosts regular exhibitions.

Sprawling landscaped park featuring open lawns, tree-covered paths, picnic & play areas & a cafe.

60 acres of gardens reflecting varied planting styles, park and woodland around grand stately home.

Nature reserve with a visitor centre, 7 viewing hides, walking trails and a cafe with homemade food.

👍👍 Great place for a walk (Dog friendly) with a picnic. Cheap parking, free entry to Museum, Gardens and Park. Easter trail & crafts, playground and Swan boats on the Serpentine. Cafe for drinks and cakes now in walled garden. Gardens looking good.

👍 Lovely country park with some beautiful scenery. On the outskirts of Barnsley South Yorkshire it's a nice place to visit with walks and activities for children. Plenty to see.

Creative arts hub with a 336-seater theatre, plus gallery, exhibition and workshop spaces.

Heritage center with art & craft workshops, plus historic exhibits, shops & a kids' play area.

👍👍 This place was an old engineering factory but it’s now a museum. There are some massive steel features around the area. It’s open to the public and I’ve been there twice for a fashion shoot. So much character and some of the machines do work. It’s set in acres of land and has many rooms to visit. My...

Casual hub featuring indoor play structures & other kids' activities, plus standard pub grub.

This 64-hectare park offers grassland, wetland & woodland with walking & biking tracks.

👍 Visited this place for the first time. It is difficult to find as Google maps will take you somewhere else and in order to get to this place. As it is inside the elsecar heritage centre. We haven't visited such a place before but weren't given any instructions in terms of if you are allowed in the...

Small art gallery grown from Cooper's own collection, now with works by Turner and Prunella Clough.

Charming museum devoted to the heritage & culture of the region with hands-on exhibits & films.

👍👍 If you want a short (3.5 km) flat walk then this is ideal. The car park is on the A629 close to the dam. Leave the car park, going down to the waters edge, and follow the well maintained path round the reservoir. The walk can be extended to Royd Moor reservoir by taking the path on the far side of t...

👍👍 There is a really small carpark, which we managed to squeeze into. Really nice place, there are walking trails to follow or you can give your own way, little one chose which paths to go and I followed. Paths were still wet and muddy, from the day before; with that white, clay kind of mud that's hard...

Twisty water slides, diving boards & splash pools, plus a pirate-themed play zone.