Play areas and recreation facilities

We have a range of play areas and recreation facilities in our parks and across the borough. You can find the locations of these, and the age ranges for play areas, below.

BMX tracks

BMX tracks are available in the following locations:

  • Ardsley recreation ground

  • Athersley: Newstead Road

  • Cudworth: Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre

  • Darton Park

  • Great Houghton: Chapel Street

  • Hoyland: Milton Forge

  • Kendray recreation ground

  • Lundwood: Burton Grange; Littleworth Lane recreation ground

  • Penistone: Park Avenue showground

  • Ward Green recreation ground

Bowling greens

Bowling greens are available in the following locations:

  • Carlton recreation ground

  • Cudworth: Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre

  • Darton Park

  • Hoyland: Platts Common recreation ground

  • Kingstone: Locke Park

  • Mapplewell: Ibberson Park; Mapplewell recreation ground

  • Penistone: Park Avenue showground

  • Shafton recreation ground

  • Smithies recreation ground

  • Wombwell: Mitchell and Darfield playing field

  • Worsbrough: Highstone Lane recreation ground

Children's play areas

Children's play areas are available in the following locations:

Ardsley

  • Ardsley recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Athersley

  • New Lodge (up to 14 years)

  • Newstead Road (up to 14 years)

Barnsley town centre

  • Churchfields (up to 11 years)

  • Spring Street (up to 14 years)

  • Stanhope Street (up to 11 years)

Barugh Green

  • Barugh Green recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • Dovebush Way (up to 11 years)

Birdwell

  • Birdwell community park (up to 11 years)

Blacker Hill

  • Blacker Hill recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Bolton upon Dearne

  • Dearne Backings (up to 11 years)

  • Hawthorne Drive (up to 11 years)

  • Wath Road (up to 11 years)

Brierley

  • Brierley Park (up to 11 years)

Carlton

  • Carlton recreation ground (up to 14 years)

  • Lynwood Drive (up to 11 years)

Cudworth

  • Cudworth Park (up to 11 years)

  • Darfield Road (up to 11 years)

  • Royston Road (up to 11 years)

  • The Valley, Barnsley Road (up to 14 years)

  • West Green, Klondyke (up to 11 years)

Darfield

  • Balkley Lane (up to 11 years)

  • Bellbrooke Avenue (up to 11 years)

  • Bly Road (up to 11 years)

  • Darfield Park (up to 11 years)

  • North Street (up to 11 years)

  • Pinfold (up to 11 years)

Darton

  • Darton Park (up to 14 years)

  • School Street (up to five years)

Dodworth

  • Dodworth recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • Gilroyd recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • South Road (up to 11 years)

  • Stainborough Road (up to 14 years)

  • Station Road (up to 14 years)

  • Wareham Grove (up to five years)

Elsecar

  • Elsecar Park (up to 14 years)

Gawber

  • Blackburn Lane (up to 11 years)

  • Woodview (up to 11 years)

Great Houghton 

  • Chapel Street (up to 11 years)

  • Pleasant View (up to 11 years)

Goldthorpe

  • Carrfield Lane (up to 14 years)

  • George Street, Highgate (up to 11 years)

  • Goldthorpe recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • Holly Grove (up to 11 years)

  • Rosegreave, Highgate (up to 11 years)

Grimethorpe

  • Millennium Green (up to 14 years)

  • The Beck (up to 11 years)

Hemingfield

  • Hemingfield recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Higham

  • Higham recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Hoyland

  • Cloughfields (up to 14 years)

  • Milton Forge (up to 11 years)

  • Tinker Lane (up to 11 years)

Hoyle Mill

  • Dearne Valley Country Park (up to 11 years)

Jump

  • Jump Park (up to 11 years)

Kendray

  • Birk Avenue teen zone (up to 14 years)

  • Central Park (up to 11 years)

  • Hen pen, Doncaster Road (up to five years)

  • Kendray recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • Leslie Road (up to 11 years)

  • Measborough Dyke (up to 11 years)

Kexborough

  • Kexborough recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Kingstone

  • Cranbrook Street (up to 11 years)

  • Locke Park (up to 14 years)

Lundwood

  • Burton Grange (up to 11 years)

  • Littleworth Lane recreation ground (up to 14 years)

Mapplewell

  • Ibberson Park, Mapplewell recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Middlecliffe

  • Little Houghton (up to 11 years)

  • Middlecliffe (up to 11 years)

Monk Bretton

  • Brettas Park (up to 11 years)

  • Monk Bretton recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • Monk Bretton social club (up to 11 years)

  • Rotherham Road playing field (up to 11 years)

Penistone

  • Church View (up to 11 years)

  • Crane Moor (up to 11 years)

  • Crow Edge (up to 14 years)

  • Cubley Brook (up to 11 years)

  • Greenacre (up to 11 years)

  • Greenmoor (up to 11 years)

  • Hood Green (up to 11 years)

  • Littleton Crescent, Cubley (up to 11 years)

  • Millhouse Green (up to 11 years)

  • New Road, Tankersley (up to 11 years)

  • Oxspring (up to 14 years)

  • Park Avenue showground (up to 11 years)

  • Spring Vale (up to 11 years)

  • The Nook, Hoylandswaine (up to 11 years)

  • The Orchard, Cawthorne (up to 14 years)

  • Thurgoland welfare ground (up to 11 years)

  • Wellthorne Avenue, Ingbirchworth (up to 11 years)

  • Wentworth Road (up to 11 years)

  • Westfield Avenue (up to 11 years)

  • Wortley Rugby Club (up to 11 years)

Redbrook

  • Harry Road playing field (up to 14 years)

  • Redbrook Hill (up to 11 years)

  • Springfields (up to 11 years)

  • Walton Street North (up to 14 years)

Royston

  • Chevet View (up to 11 years)

  • East End Crescent (up to 11 years)

  • The Green (up to 14 years)

  • Winter Avenue (up to 14 years)

Shafton

  • Plumpton Park (up to 11 years)

  • Shafton Green (up to 11 years)

  • Shafton recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Silkstone

  • Manor Park (up to 11 years)

  • Martin Croft (up to 11 years)

  • Silkstone Common recreation ground (up to 11 years)

Staincross

  • California (up to 14 years)

  • Windhill (up to 11 years)

Stairfoot

  • Bank Street (up to 11 years)

Thurnscoe

  • Derry Grove (up to 11 years)

  • Hickleton sports ground/Thurnscoe Park (up to 11 years)

  • Merrill Road (up to 11 years)

  • The Hill (up to 11 years)

Ward Green

  • Ward Green recreation ground (up to 14 years)

Wombwell

  • Aldham House Lane (up to 11 years)

  • Everill Close (up to 11 years)

  • Summer Lane (up to 11 years)

  • Wombwell Park (up to 11 years)

Woolley

  • Bluebell Road (up to 14 years)

Worsbrough

  • Bank End recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • Highstone Lane recreation ground (up to 11 years)

  • New Scarborough playing field (up to 11 years)

  • Warren Quarry Lane (up to 11 years)

  • Worsbrough Park (up to 11 years)

Cricket pitches

Cricket pitches are available in the following locations:

  • Barnsley town centre: Shaw Lane Cricket Club

  • Darfield Cricket Club

  • Darton Cricket Club

  • Elsecar Cricket and Social Club

  • Houghton Main Miners Welfare Sports and Social Club

  • Kexborough Cricket Club

  • Monk Bretton Cricket Club

  • Penistone Cricket Club

  • Rockingham Colliery Cricket Club

  • Silkstone United Cricket Club

  • Stainborough Cricket Club

  • Wath Cricket Club

  • Woolley Miners Cricket Club

  • Wombwell Main sports ground

  • Worsbrough Bridge Football and Cricket Club

Football pitches

There are a number of football pitches around the borough. Some of these are open access, others are available to hire. Visit our football webpage for details of venues and pitch bookings.

Golf courses

There are several golf courses in the Barnsley area, including Barnsley Golf Club's course - The Limes. Find golf courses in Barnsley.

Multi-use games areas

Multi-use games areas are available in the following locations:

  • Ardsley recreation ground

  • Barugh Green recreation ground

  • Birdwell Community Park

  • Blacker Hill recreation ground

  • Bolton upon Dearne: Wath Road

  • Brierley Park

  • Crow Edge

  • Cudworth: Cudworth Park; The Valley

  • Darfield: Bellbrooke; Inkerman recreation ground

  • Elsecar Park

  • Goldthorpe: Carrfield Lane

  • Gilroyd recreation ground

  • Great Houghton: Norfolk Road; Pleasant View

  • Grimethorpe: Hillside Crescent; Millennium Green

  • Hemingfield recreation ground

  • Hoyland: Milton Forge; Tinker Lane

  • Jump: Pigeon Park

  • Kendray recreation ground

  • Kingstone: Locke Park

  • Lundwood: Littleworth Lane recreation ground

  • Mapplewell: Ibberson Park; Mapplewell recreation ground

  • Measborough Dyke

  • Middlecliffe Working Men's Club

  • Millhouse Green

  • Monk Bretton: Monk Bretton Social Club; Rotherham Road playing field

  • New Lodge

  • Penistone: Church View; Park Avenue showground; Springvale

  • Redbrook: Leyland Walk

  • Royston: East End Crescent

  • Shafton: Plumpton Park

  • Silkstone recreation ground

  • Silkstone Common recreation ground

  • Thurgoland: Halifax Road - side of Thurgoland pre-school

  • Thurnscoe: Merrill Road; Thurnscoe Park

  • Worsbrough: Bank End recreation ground; Highstone Lane recreation ground; Worsbrough Park

  • Wombwell: Aldham House Lane; Everill Close; Summer Lane; Wombwell Park

Outdoor gyms

Outdoor gyms are available in the following locations:

  • Dodworth recreation ground

  • Hoyland: Tinker Lane

  • Hoyle Mill: Dearne Valley Country Park

  • Kingstone: Locke Park; Penny Pie Park

  • Mapplewell: Ibberson Park; Mapplewell recreation ground

  • Penistone: Park Avenue showground

  • Worsbrough Common: Warren Quarry Lane

Skate parks

Skate parks are available in the following locations:

  • Ardsley recreation ground

  • Cudworth: Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre

  • Darton Park

  • Great Houghton: Chapel Street

  • Kendray recreation ground

  • Lundwood: Littleworth Lane recreation ground

  • Hoyland: Milton Forge

  • Penistone: Park Avenue showground

  • Ward Green recreation ground

Tennis courts

Tennis courts are available in the following locations:

  • Carlton recreation ground

  • Darton Park

Youth shelters

Youth shelters are available in the following locations:

  • Ardsley recreation ground

  • Birdwell community park

  • Bolton upon Dearne: Wath Road

  • Cudworth: Dorothy Hyman Sports Centre

  • Darton Park

  • Dodworth Library (at the rear)

  • Gilroyd recreation ground

  • Lundwood: Littleworth Lane recreation ground

  • Kendray: Kendray recreation ground; Measborough Dyke

  • Middlecliffe Working Men's Club

  • New Lodge

  • Penistone: Park Avenue showground; Springvale

  • Redbook: Walton Street North

  • Silkstone recreation ground

  • Silkstone Common recreation ground

  • Smithies recreation ground

  • Thurgoland: Halifax Road (side of Thurgoland pre-school)

  • Wombwell: Aldham House Lane

  • Worsbrough Common: Warren Quarry Lane

For more information

Call 01226 774353 or

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