Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley

Barnsley is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire in England. Administrative center is the city of Barnsley. For Borough also includes the villages of Darton, Hoyland, Penistone, Royston and Wombwell.

The reorganization of the limits and the capabilities of local authorities led in 1974 to form the Metropolitan Borough. Were fused while the County Borough Barnsley that. Urban Districts Cudworth, Darfield, Darton, Dearne, Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Penistone, Royston, Wombwell and Worsborough, the Penistone Rural District and parts of the Rural Districts Hemsworth and Wortley These authorities previously belonged to the county of West Riding of Yorkshire.

1986 Barnsley was in fact a Unitary Authority, as the central government dissolved the overall management of South Yorkshire. Barnsley was for ceremonial purposes part of South Yorkshire, as well as for individual higher-level tasks such as police, fire and public transport.

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