Wombwell is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, sitting in the heart of the Dearne Valley a few miles east of Barnsley town centre. It grew up in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a coal‑mining community, and that industrial past still shapes the town’s layout and character.
Today Wombwell is largely a residential, post‑industrial place with local shops, sports clubs and community organisations, surrounded by pockets of green space and former industrial sites. It has regular road and rail connections to nearby centres such as Barnsley and Sheffield, and visible mining heritage, local memorials and ongoing small‑scale regeneration help maintain a strong local identity.
Postcode districts covering Wombwell
Most populated places nearby
- Sheffield 10.5 miles16.9 km
- Leeds 20.3 miles32.6 km
- Bradford 23.8 miles38.2 km
- Huddersfield 18.5 miles29.8 km
- Rotherham 6.5 miles10.4 km
- Doncaster 11.7 miles18.9 km
- Chesterfield 19 miles30.5 km
- Wakefield 11.8 miles19 km
- Halifax 24.3 miles39.1 km
- Barnsley 3.9 miles6.2 km
- Castleford 14 miles22.5 km
- Morley 17.8 miles28.7 km
Neighbouring places
- Hemingfield Built-up area 1.1 miles1.7 km
- Brampton Built-up area 1.3 miles2.1 km
- Darfield Built-up area 1.3 miles2.1 km
- Brampton Bierlow Parish 1.3 miles2.2 km
- Jump Built-up area 1.7 miles2.7 km
- Hoyland Milton Ward 1.7 miles2.7 km
- Stairfoot Ward 1.9 miles3 km
- Little Houghton Parish 2.3 miles3.6 km
- Billingley Parish 2.3 miles3.7 km
- Hoyland Built-up area 2.4 miles3.8 km
- Hoober Ward 2.6 miles4.2 km
- Wath upon Dearne Built-up area 2.7 miles4.4 km
Example postcodes in Wombwell
S73 8DT, S73 8HS, S73 0HN, S73 8NR, S73 8HX, S73 8RW, S73 8LQ, S73 8PN, S73 8TW … See all
Transport links
- Doncaster Sheffield Airport 16.4 miles26.4 km
- Leeds Bradford International Airport 26 miles41.9 km
- Wombwell Railway Station 0.8 miles1.3 km
- Elsecar Railway Station 2 miles3.3 km
- Doncaster Sheffield Bus Station 8.5 miles13.6 km
Hotels near Wombwell Ad
- Churchill's Hotel 2 0.1 miles0.1 km
- Holiday Inn Express Rotherham North 3 2.5 miles4 km
- Gulliver's Valley M1 Jct 31 6.8 miles10.9 km
- Ibis Styles Barnsley Hotel 3 5.2 miles8.4 km
- Whitley Hall Hotel 4 6.1 miles9.8 km
- The Fairway 3 5.9 miles9.5 km
- Mercure Barnsley Tankersley Manor Hotel 4 4.3 miles6.9 km
- Holiday Inn Barnsley 4 5.4 miles8.7 km
- Rogerthorpe Manor Hotel 4 8.7 miles14 km
- Friendship Hotel 8.5 miles13.7 km
Schools in Wombwell
- High View Primary Learning Centre Primary
- Kings Oak Primary Primary
- Netherwood Academy Secondary
- St Michael and All Angels Catholic Primary School Primary
- Wombwell Park Street Primary School Primary
Local points of interest
- Cortonwood Colliery Shopping centre 1.1 miles1.7 km
- Elsecar Heritage Centre Museum 2.1 miles3.5 km
- Oakwell Stadium 3.5 miles5.6 km
- Meadowhall Shopping centre 7.6 miles12.2 km
- Hampole Priory Historic site 8 miles12.9 km
- Hillsborough Stadium Stadium 8.8 miles14.1 km
- Don Valley Stadium Stadium 8.8 miles14.2 km
- Nostell Priory Country house 9 miles14.5 km
- Cusworth Hall Museum Museum 9.1 miles14.6 km
- Pugneys Country Park Nature reserve 10.2 miles16.5 km
- University of Sheffield University 10.5 miles16.9 km
- The Leadmill Theatre 10.5 miles16.9 km