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County Borough of Barnsley
Barnsley Town Hall
Area
• 1911	2,385 acres (965 ha)
• 1931	6,036 acres (2,443 ha)
• 1961	7,817 acres (3,163 ha)
Population
• 1911	50,614
• 1931	71,522
• 1961	74,704
Density
• 1911	21/acre
• 1931	12/acre
• 1961	10/acre
History
• Created	1869
• Abolished	1974
• Succeeded by	Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley
Status	Municipal borough (1869–1913) County borough (1913–1974)
• HQ	Barnsley
Map of boundary as of 1971

The County Borough of Barnsley, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Barnsley, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1869 to 1974.

Barnsley became a municipal borough in 1869, and a county borough in 1913, making it administratively independent of the West Riding County Council. The borough's boundaries were extended to absorb Ardsley and Monk Bretton in 1921 and Carlton in 1938.

Barnsley Town Hall was opened on 14 December 1933 as the seat of local government. The Classical Portland stone building was designed by Sir Arnold Thornely and is Grade II listed.

The borough was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and created the centre of the new Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley by a merger with Cudworth, Darfield, Darton, Dearne, Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Penistone, Royston, Wombwell and Worsborough urban districts, along with Penistone Rural District, part of Hemsworth Rural District and part of Wortley Rural District, all in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

References

1. Great Britain Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Barnsley MB/CB. Retrieved 13 January 2023.

v t e Administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1888–1974)
West Riding County Council
County boroughs	Barnsley Bradford Dewsbury Doncaster Halifax Huddersfield Leeds Rotherham Sheffield Wakefield York
Municipal boroughs	Batley Brighouse Castleford Goole Harrogate Keighley Morley Ossett Pontefract Pudsey Ripon Spenborough Todmorden
Urban districts	Adwick le Street Aireborough Baildon Barnoldswick Bentley with Arksey Bingley Colne Valley Conisbrough Cudworth Darfield Darton Dearne Denby Dale Denholme Dodworth Earby Elland Featherstone Garforth Hebden Royd Heckmondwike Hemsworth Holmfirth Horbury Horsforth Hoyland Nether Ilkley Kirkburton Knaresborough Knottingley Maltby Meltham Mexborough Mirfield Normanton Otley Penistone Queensbury and Shelf Rawmarsh Ripponden Rothwell Royston Saddleworth Shipley Silsden Skipton Sowerby Bridge Stanley Stocksbridge Swinton Tickhill Wath upon Dearne Wombwell Worsbrough Abolished before 1974: Altofts Ardsley Ardsley East and West Balby with Hexthorpe Barkisland Bingley Outer Birkenshaw Birstall Bolton upon Dearne Burley in Wharfedale Calverley Clayton Clayton West Cleckheaton Denby and Cumberworth Drighlington Eccleshill Emley Farnley Tyas Farsley Flockton Fulstone Gildersome Golcar Gomersal Greasborough Greetland Guiseley Gunthwaite and Ingbirthworth Handsworth Haworth Hebden Bridge Hepworth Hipperholme Holme Honley Hoyland Swaine Hunsworth Idle Kirkheaton Lepton Linthwaite Liversedge Luddenden Foot Marsden Methley Midgley Monk Bretton Mytholmroyd Netherthong New Mill North Bierley Northowram Oakworth Oxenhope Queensbury Quickmere Mid. Div. Ravensthorpe Rawdon Rishworth Sandal Magna Scammonden Scholes Shelf Shelley Shepley Skelmanthorpe Slaithwaite Soothill Nether Soothill Upper South Crosland Southowram Sowerby Soyland Springhead Stainland Thornhill Thornton Thurlstone Thurnscoe Thurstonland and Farnley Tyas Tong Upper Mill Warley Wheatley Whitley Upper Whitwood Wilsden Yeadon
Rural districts	Bowland Doncaster Goole Hemsworth Hepton Kiveton Park Nidderdale Osgoldcross Penistone Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rotherham Sedbergh Selby Settle Skipton Tadcaster Thorne Wakefield Wetherby Wharfedale Wortley Abolished before 1974: Barnsley Bishopthorpe Great Ouseburn Halifax Hunslet Keighley Knaresborough Leeds Pateley Bridge Pontefract Ripon Saddleworth Todmorden

• County boroughs of England
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• Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972