Location and opening/closing times
Armroyd Lane, Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8ES.
The park is on the B6097 Wentworth Road, eight miles from Barnsley town centre.
It opens daily from dawn to dusk.
Visit Elsecar Park Facebook page.
Park facilities/features
- Green Flag Award winning park
- Children's play area up to age 14
- Multi use games area
- Cafe
- Toilets with baby changing area and disabled facilities
- Nine hole pitch and putt course (pay in the cafe)
- Crazy golf area (pay in the cafe)
- Bandstand (with electricity supply) and ornamental terraced gardens
- Sand pit, picnic area and story-telling circle
- Bicycle parking area
- The Trans Pennine Trail (multi-user path) runs through the reserve
- Reservoir and local nature reserve
- Bird hide and pond dipping pool
- Open area for informal games and events
- Friends group
Reservoir and local nature reserve
The reservoir’s fishing rights are leased to Elsecar Colliery Angling Club and it contains a variety of coarse fish. The club has the exclusive right to fish with rod and line in certain parts of the reservoir and has 29 pegged fishing bays and 15 non-pegged fishing bays for use by club members and by other clubs at organised events.
The reservoir and its surrounding land have been declared as one of the borough’s natural heritage sites in view of its regional importance for nature conservation.
Getting to the park
If you’re travelling by car, you can use the council owned car park on Wentworth Road (next to Elsecar Heritage Centre Car Park). You can also use the Cricket Club car park on Armroyd Lane at the discretion of the Cricket Club.
Buses run past the park every twenty minutes. You can catch numbers 64 64a, 66,72 and 227. The 227 Hoyland to Rotherham bus passes through the village every hour and stops outside the Market Public House. Buses 64,64a and 66 stop outside Milton Hall on Wath Road, while the 72 stops outside Elsecar Main cricket ground on Fitzwilliam Street.
The park is only 10 minutes from the train station if you want to travel by train.
For bus times, call the South Yorkshire Traveline on (01709) 515151 or visit the Travel South Yorkshire website.
Other parks in the local area
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Blackerhill Recreation Ground |
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Hemingfield Recreation Ground |
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Jump Park |
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Milton Forge, Hoyland |
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Pigeon Park, Church Street, Jump |
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Platts Common Recreation Ground |
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Platts Common (behind Ambulance Station) |
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Birdwell Community Park |
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Cloughfields, Hoyland |
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Rockingham Sports Ground (community run) |
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Tinker Lane, Hoyland |
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Church View, Penistone |
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Crow Edge (parish council site) |
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Cubley Brook |
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Cubley, Littleton Crescent |
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Greenacre, Penistone |
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Ingbirchworth (Wellthorne Avenue) |
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Ingbirchworth Playing Field (parish council site) |
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Millhouse Green |
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Park Avenue |
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Spring Vale, Penistone |
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Wentworth Road, Penistone |
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Westfield Avenue, Penistone |
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Watermeadows Park, Penistone |
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Park services enquiry
Phone (01226) 774353 or