The origin of the name Barnsley is subject to debate, but Barnsley Council claims that its origins lie in the Saxon word " Berne ", for barn or storehouse, and " Lay, for field.

Following the Local Government Act 1972, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council took control of surrounding towns, villages and adopted them as part of Barnsley.

Elections to Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council have seen the Labour Party retain control of the council at every election.

In 2002, Barnsley Council and partners launched a major consultation exercise, " Rethinking Barnsley ".

* Penistone Town Hall ( which now houses Barnsley Council's flagship frontline service ' Barnsley Connects '. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is responsible for major local government issues and there is also Penistone Town Council which looks after local matters.

It was announced that Barnsley Council had agreed proposals submitted by Tesco to go ahead with building.

She worked as a Social Work Assistant for Berkshire County Council from 1981 – 84 ; as a Social Worker for Nottinghamshire County Council from 1986 – 90, becoming a Senior Social Worker from 1990 – 92 ; as a District Manager for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Social Services from 1992 – 96, as Child Services Manager for Wakefield Metropolitan Borough Council from 1996 – 99 ; and Assistant Director of City of York Council Children's Services from 1999 – 2000.

Before being elected she worked for Barnsley Borough Council and was the European Officer for the Coalfields Community Campaign.

Cannon Hall is now a museum run by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

Since the local government reforms of 1974 Cudworth has been a ward within the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and returns three ward councillors.

The Barnsley Rural Sanitary District which included most of the Barnsley Poor Law Union of which Cudworth was a part was abolished under the 1894 Local Government Act when the Barnsley Rural District Council with elected councillors took over the responsibilities previously administered by the Poor Law Guardians.

The Battalion operates from Territorial Army Centres across the Regimental footprint with companies dispersed throughout Yorkshire in Sheffield ; Barnsley ; Huddersfield ; Keighley ; Hull ; Beverley ; Leeds ; York ; Scarborough ; Northallerton and Middlesbrough.

It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield.

Barnsley has four MPs: Dan Jarvis for Barnsley Central, Angela Smith for Penistone & Stocksbridge, Michael Dugher for Barnsley East and John Healey for Wentworth and Dearne CC.

During the 1997 – 98 season, Vialli scored four goals in a league win over Barnsley and a hat-trick against Norwegian side Tromsø in the Cup Winners ' Cup, but still couldn't cement his place in the side under Gullit.

Barbut was taken prisoner and executed, and the British garrison wiped out ; only one man, Corporal George Barnsley of the 19th Infantry, survived to tell the tale ( though other sources put the number of survivors at four ).

The railway station has four platforms: Platforms 3 and 4 for the Penistone and Hallam Lines, from to and respectively via Barnsley, and platforms 1 and 2 for the lines towards Rotherham Central and Doncaster:

Black Lace played twenty concerts in twenty four hours in Manchester, London, Watford, Northampton, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, and Leeds, finishing at the Frontier Club, Batley.

Since then, the team went on a five game unbeaten run drawing at Ipswich Town and winning four in a row against Plymouth Argyle, Coventry City, Norwich City and Barnsley to improve his chances of landing the job permanent.

He started his career with Manchester United in 2004, and was loaned out to Royal Antwerp, Brøndby, Barnsley, and Port Vale in a four year career as a " Red Devil ".

The second spot could have been awarded to 20th-placed Tottenham, or Barnsley, who had finished 3rd in the Second Division, but Arsenal ( along with four other clubs ) also bid for the place, despite their only finishing 6th in Division Two-although an error in the calculation of goal average meant Arsenal had actually finished fifth, an error which was corrected by the Football League in 1980.

After an endorsement by League President and chairman of Liverpool John McKenna on account of their longer membership of the League, Arsenal won the vote by eighteen votes to Spurs ' eight ( Barnsley got five, Wolves four, Nottingham Forest three, Birmingham two and Hull City one ) and were thus elected to the First Division.

Other museums in Barnsley include the volunteer-run Darfield Museum and the Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum.

The only Newcomen-style engine still extant in its original location is at what is now the Elsecar Heritage Centre, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

Elsecar is a village forming part of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England.

Elsecar railway station is a railway station in Elsecar, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

The Elsecar Heritage Railway is located on the southern part of the former South Yorkshire Railway freight-only branch which ran from Elsecar Junction on its Mexborough to Barnsley line.

* Elsecar Heritage Centre, at Barnsley MBC official website

This led to a regeneration programme centred on Barnsley Town Centre.

* Experience Barnsley – The creation of the Barnsley People's Museum and Archives Centre.

Barnsley College is one of the largest further and higher education establishments in Europe and is situated on a number of sites throughout the town centre, chiefly the Old Mill Lane Site, Eastgate House, The Sci Tech Centre, the Honeywell Site and the Construction centre.

This is known as the University Centre Barnsley.

* University Centre Barnsley website

Dodworth railway station, on the Huddersfield to Sheffield line, provides access to Barnsley Centre, Sheffield, Leeds and other nearby towns and cities.

As of September 2011, the school has merged with another school in Barnsley, Willowgarth High School, creating Shafton Advanced Learning Centre.

The Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre ( BBIC ) was established in 1987 as a private company ( limited by guarantee ), with a mission to assist in the economic regeneration of the Barnsley Borough.

There is also the High Street ( Barnsley Road ) which includes many common high street names such as The Post Office, Superdrug, Hallmark Cards, Boots Group, Blockbusters, Greggs, Heron, Asda, Sainsbury's Local and also many other individual shops such as South Elmsall Travel, Pro Logic Computers, The Paint Pot, The Jewellery Centre, Les & June Price Carpets & Furnishings, Allstar Teamwear, Dennis Price carpets, Kidz schoolwear, Rhythm and Booze, Mode Clothing, Parade clothing among many others.

The Mall Barnsley, also known by its original name the Alhambra Shopping Centre, is Barnsley's main shopping complex, housing 41 shops and adjacent to Barnsley Market.

From here it is possible to see Cannon Hall, the Peak District National Park, Barnsley Town Hall and on clear days the cooling towers of the distant power stations of Drax and Eggborough.

In England paintings from his brush are to be found at the National Gallery and Wallace Collection, and, amongst others, in the collections of the Marquess of Bute and Colonel Holford, and several at Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens ( Barnsley, Yorkshire ).

Cannon Hall is a country house museum located between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland north of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

By the late 14th century Cannon Hall was in the ownership of the Bosville family of Ardsley, now a suburb in south-east of Barnsley.

Cannon Hall Museum, park and gardens is owned and operated by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

* Cannon Hall, Barnsley Florist-The Florist at Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, Barnsley

* Cannon Hall near Barnsley, 1764, 1778 onwards ;

Cannon Hall is now in the hands of Barnsley Council, while Wortley Hall ( ancestral home of the Wortley-Montagu family ) is now owned by trade unions.