Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth parish is centred around the villages of Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworth to the west of Barnsley. It has a population of 600.
Meetings are held every six to eight weeks on a Wednesday at 7:30pm, in the first-floor function room of The Fountain, Ingbirchworth. This room can only be reached via stairs. If you want to attend a meeting but due to mobility issues cannot use stairs, please contact the Clerk in advance.
Please see the meeting dates and minutes section below for dates. Contact the Clerk for more details.
Clerk to the council
Ms A Murphy
6 South View, Crane Moor, Sheffield, S35 7AP
Contact the council
- Email: clerk@gunthwaiteingbirchworth-pc.gov.uk
- Phone: 0114 288 6933
Parish council members
| Name | Address |
David A Edmondson |
Grove Cottage, New Row Lane, Ingbirchworth, Sheffield S36 7GG |
Pauline Ogden |
2 Huddersfield Road, Ingbirchworth |
David Berry |
28A Huddersfield Road, Ingbirchworth |
David Hazeldine |
34 Ings Way, Ingbirchworth, S36 7GL |
Register of members' interests
You can see declarations from all parish councillors in our register of interests.
Would you like to be a parish councillor?
We currently have a vacancy for a councillor.
Meeting dates and minutes
2025
- 3 December 2025
- 29 October 2025
- 10 September 2025
- 30 July 2025
- 25 June 2025
- 21 May 2025 – annual parish meeting and annual parish council meeting
- 16 April 2025
- 5 March 2025 - agenda
- 22 January 2025 - draft minutes
Minutes dated prior to January 2020 are currently available in hardcopy format only. Please contact the clerk for further information
Note: Barnsley Council doesn't necessarily endorse any opinion expressed in the parish council minutes.
Accounts and governance
2020/21
- Certificate of exemption – AGAR - 2020/21
- Annual internal audit report - 2020/21
- Annual governance statement - 2020/21
- Annual accounting statements - 2020/21
- Variance analysis - 2020/21
- Bank reconciliation - 2020/21
- Notification of exercise of public rights - 2020/21
Internal audit 2020/21 – response to issues raised
The internal audit found that the internal control objectives L, M and N were not met.
Although the relevant accounting and governance information for 2019/20 was available on the village noticeboard, this also needs to be on a publicly available website. Also notice of the period of public inspection rights must be minuted in the meeting where the annual accounting statements and annual governance statement are approved.
With reference to the internal audit report, the Council acknowledges that the transparency obligation was not met fully. The website the Council uses could not accept the scanned format, and the Clerk at the time was unable to be at the meeting where the notice of public inspection rights would normally be minuted. In addition, the Clerk role was subsequently taken over by a new employee.
Going forward the Parish Council will ensure that the required documents including the notice of public inspection rights, are available on a publicly available website. The dates for the exercise of public inspection rights have been minuted in the annual parish council meeting held on Monday May 24 2021.
Accounting and Governance reports for financial years prior to 2020/21 are currently available in hardcopy format only. Please contact the clerk for further information.
Parish precept 2024/25
£8,300
Annual events for the benefit of parish residents
- Remembrance Day service in November.
- Christmas tree light switch-on on the first Saturday of December.
Open spaces we own
The parish council owns:
- Recreation field at Wellthorne Lane, Ingbirchworth
- Nature area at Annat Royd (former quarry)
- Summer Ford picnic site
- Woodland at Brown's Edge (former quarry)
- Sandbeds at New Row Lane
Policies and procedures
- Standing orders
- Financial regulations
- Code of conduct
- Social media policy
- Complaints procedure
- Biodiversity policy
- General privacy notice
- Privacy notice - staff, councillors and role holders