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You'll find jaw-dropping scenery, cities steeped in industrial heritage and hidden market towns in equal measures in South Yorkshire. Hop on an imaginary stagecoach to historical inns in regal Doncaster. Rock climbers and walkers enjoy Peak District National Park escarpments and vales. Pause at market towns and hamlets for windmills, old churches and country pubs. Novelties like steam railways, model villages and science centres keep little visitors to this Yorkshire and Humber county amused for hours. Don't miss cosmopolitan Sheffield's glasshouse gardens, art galleries and cathedral chapels.

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Indulge your sweet tooth in Cocoa Wonderland

Sneak into Cocoa’s enchanted chocolate wonderland for a true midnight feast and experience a lock-in with a difference.

Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Enjoy 100 days of culture at the Yorkshire Festival

Theatre, art exhibitions, musical performances and a bit of biking; the 100-day marathon that is the Yorkshire Festival has it all.

Location: Yorkshire

Enjoy a vintage day out browsing Sheffield’s Antiques Quarter

A flea market with 70 stalls of Retro, Vintage, Arts & Crafts (but no fleas) add even more to Sheffield's Antiques Quarter,

Rainy Day Activities: Discover Sheffield’s story at Kelham Island Museum

The ‘Steel City’s’ unique industrial story is brought to life through interactive galleries at this captivating indoor museum.

Location: Kelham Island, South Yorkshire

Stay in a quintessentially English village

The rural beauty of idyllic Bradfield – complete with a medieval church, Norman castle and cosy pubs – will take your breath away.

Location: Bradfield, South Yorkshire

Explore the past at Elsecar village

Set within the attractive conservation village of Elsecar is Elsecar Heritage Centre, a unique attraction and a working hub of industry to explore.

Location: Elsecar, South Yorkshire

Discover James Hudson Taylor’s heritage

The British missionary James Hudson Taylor was born in Barnsley – take a trail through the places he lived and preached at.

Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Fall in love with historic houses and gardens

Be warned! After a visit to the splendid historic houses and gardens around Barnsley, you may wish to move in and live the life of a lord or lady.

Marvel at a working 17th-century water mill

Worsbrough Mill in Northern England is an amazing place to watch wildlife and see history come alive in a beautiful setting.

Location: Worsbrough, South Yorkshire

Enjoy a slice of authentic Yorkshire countryside

Visit Penistone, the highest market town in the county. As well as being pretty to look at, there’s plenty to do and delicious food and ales to try.

Location: Penistone, South Yorkshire

Explore the great outdoors around Barnsley

Nature-lovers looking for fresh air, exercise and natural beauty can take on adventures big and small in Barnsley.

September events: Celebrate Doncaster at the St Leger Festival

Join the party at The William Hill St Leger Festival, the oldest classic horse race in the world, with an array of music, fine food, arts and culture – and racing of course!

Location: Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Shop like a local at marvellous Doncaster Market

With over 400 stalls spanning everything from speciality cheeses to antique treasures, lively, award-winning Doncaster Market is a must-visit.

See the last operating Vulcan bomber in flight

Aviation fans won’t want to miss the Vulcan Experience, a chance to see the world’s last flying Vulcan bomber, here at its original home.

Location: Robin Hood Airport, South Yorkshire

Play croquet on the lawns of Brodsworth Hall

Enjoy a quintessential English experience with a game of croquet in the grounds of intriguing Brodsworth Hall, a stately home in Doncaster.

Location: Brodsworth, South Yorkshire

Bring a masterpiece to life at Conisbrough Castle

This romantic medieval castle inspired Sir Walter Scott’s classic book Ivanhoe. Travel back nearly 1,000 years on a visit to the magnificent property.

See more of Sheffield on a city walking tour

Witness Sheffield's recent thrilling revival along with elements of its rich heritage as you pace the city streets.

Enjoy close encounters at Tropical Butterfly House & Wildlife Centre

Discover one of the most exciting wildlife parks in Yorkshire - an indoor rainforest paradise with birds and butterflies, creepy crawlies and reptiles, cheeky Meerkats and minibeasts from around the world.

Enjoy romance and relaxation at Brocco on the Park

Enter an oasis of calm with luxurious surroundings, great views and a very special terrace restaurant at Brocco on the Park.

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Explore South Yorkshire: Your Ultimate Travel Guide

Is South Yorkshire worth visiting? Absolutely! From the bustling streets of Sheffield to the serene landscapes of the Peak District, South Yorkshire offers a diverse tapestry of experiences, blending urban excitement with rural charm and industrial heritage with natural splendour.

Cities in South Yorkshire:

Known as The Steel City, Sheffield is renowned for its industrial past, vibrant cultural scene, and extensive green spaces, making it a dynamic urban centre with a heart of green. (Click for our Sheffield visitors guide)

Yorkshire’s newest city, Doncaster is famous for its horse racing and rich railway heritage as well as offering vibrant shopping, dining, and entertainment options. (Click for our Doncaster visitors guide)

Towns in South Yorkshire:

Discover Barnsley’s blend of history and culture, with attractions like the stunning Wentworth Castle Gardens and the Cooper Gallery. (Click for our Barnsley visitors guide)

A quaint market town known for its traditional markets, Penistone is a gateway to the stunning landscapes of the Pennines. (Click for our Penistone visitors guide)

Steeped in history, Rotherham boasts impressive medieval architecture, such as the Rotherham Minster, and a rich industrial heritage, alongside modern amenities and green spaces. (Click for our Rotherham visitors guide)

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Peak district.

While partially located in South Yorkshire, the Peak District offers breathtaking scenery, outdoor adventures, and quaint villages, making it a favourite for nature lovers and hikers. (Click for our Yorkshire Peak District visitors guide)

Wentworth Woodhouse

One of the country’s most impressive stately homes, Wentworth Woodhouse (website) showcases grand architecture and sprawling gardens.

Elsecar Heritage Centre

Dive into the region’s industrial past at this historic site, featuring antique shops, art galleries, and a vintage steam railway (website) .

Attractions in South Yorkshire:

• Magna Science Adventure Centre : A hands-on interactive museum in Rotherham, perfect for families and science enthusiasts (website) .
• Sheffield Botanical Gardens : Explore 19 acres of landscaped gardens, featuring plant collections from around the world, in the heart of Sheffield (website) .
• Yorkshire Wildlife Park : Located near Doncaster, this wildlife park offers close encounters with a range of exotic and endangered species, providing fun and education for all ages (website) .

Activities in South Yorkshire:

• Outdoor Adventures : From hiking in the Peak District to cycling along the Trans Pennine Trail, South Yorkshire is a haven for outdoor enthusiasts.
• Cultural Exploration : Experience the region’s rich arts scene with visits to theatres, art galleries, and live music venues in Sheffield and beyond.
• Historical Discoveries : Uncover South Yorkshire’s past, from its Roman roots to its industrial achievements, through museums, heritage railways, and historical sites.

Whether you’re seeking urban excitement, rural tranquility, or cultural enrichment, South Yorkshire offers a wealth of experiences waiting to be discovered. With its unique blend of attractions, activities, and natural beauty, South Yorkshire is not just worth visiting—it’s a destination that promises to captivate and inspire.

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15 Best Places to Visit in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire was conquered by the coal and steel industries in the 18th and 19th centuries, and after these activities faded the region had to find a new path.

For Sheffield that path is education, culture and a fertile live music scene.

Around the county you have the moors, dales and fells of the peak district to the west and lots of enthralling relics from the time when South Yorkshire led world for innovation and manufacturing.

Decades after the mines closed down nature has started taking over once more.

See “flashes”, wetlands caused by subsidence around rivers, and many of these man-made phenomena are protected bird sanctuaries or country parks.

Lets explore the best places to visit in South Yorkshire :

1. Sheffield

If there’s  a model for how to be a post-industrial city Sheffield would definitely be in the running.

After a couple of decades of regeneration the centre is creative, fun and young, full of nightlife and culture.

Some of this dynamism is owed to Sheffield’s large university population, but also sights like the Millennium Galleries and the fabulous Winter Garden, which was unveiled in 2003. And then there’s the time-honoured institutions like the Crucible Theatre, which has welcomed the World Snooker Championship since the 1970s.

Steel is still manufactured around Sheffield, and there are also well-preserved mills and machinery at Kelham Island and the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.

2. Doncaster

Any British town with the “caster” suffix was once a Roman fortress so this applies to Doncaster.

The town lies on a large coal seam and this attracted industry starting in the 1700s, though there are many strings to Doncaster’s bow.

One of these is aviation, made clear at the Vulcan Experience, showcasing the Avro Vulcan, which was assembled in Doncaster, and the South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, a trove of 20th-century helicopters and planes at a former RAF hangar.

If you’re around in late-summer two of England’s most valuable races on the flat are run at the historic Doncaster Racecourse; the St Leger Stakes and the Racing Post Trophy.

3. Barnsley

Coal-mining and glassmaking were the foundations of the economy in Barnsley, but after the last local pit closed in the 90s the town staged an economic recovery and has enough to keep you occupied for a day or so.

A lot of the allure lies in the grand estates and country parks close to the town, some of which we’ll cover later.

The big monument in Barnsley is the town hall, which was completed in 1932 and is large enough to be seen from the undulating hillsides miles outside the town.

There’s a high-quality social history museum inside, conveying the mining heritage that disappeared in the space of a couple of decades.

Monday to Saturday, call in at Barnsley’s market, which has been running since the 14th century and has more than 300 stalls.

4. Rotherham

Coal, iron, steel, pottery and glass: These were the industries that caused Rotherham to expand in the 1700s, but the town had been a significant place for centuries before that.

Rotherham Bridge will illustrate this fact nicely; the structure over the River Don was built in 1483 and is rare in the UK as a chapel is an integral part of the structure.

To get your head around Rotherham go to the Clifton Museum, where the town’s industry will be laid bare and there’s a big display of the prized Rockingham pottery which was fashioned in local kilns.

5. Peak District

Sheffield is billed as the eastern gateway to the Peak District National Park, which covers a majestic and sparsely populated upland region.

In these northern stretches of the park you’ll journey into barren sandstone moorland, which has a wild and desolate allure that brings Wuthering Heights to mind.

There will be rugged sandstone walls delineating pasture, dales dotted with sheep and lots of remote hamlets and villages where time seems to have stood still.

Sheffield has road and train links delivering you to the park in a matter of minutes.

6. Wentworth

North of Rotherham, Wentworth is a beautiful village of sandstone cottages and imposing houses, some clad with ivy.

A lot of the buildings on Main Street are listed, and many are restaurants, pubs and local village shops.

The village has been here since the 11th century, and ever-present throughout this time has been the Holy Trinity Church, now in an arresting state of semi -ruin.

But the headline attraction is the jaw-dropping Wentworth Woodhouse, a stunning 18th-century country estate that melds English baroque with Palladian design.

You won’t be surprised to hear that a host of period TV shows and films have been shot in this noble setting.

7. Cawthorne

Cawthorne has all the essentials of an English rural village, with a pretty medieval church, a pub tea room and manor house.

The local stately home, Cannon Hall is a gorgeous Georgian pile that wouldn’t look out of place in a Jane Austen period drama.

In the ballroom, dining room, library and drawing room there’s sumptuous period furniture by some of the 18th-century’s most lauded craftsmen like Thomas Chippendale and George Hepplewhite.

Bring the kids to Cannon Hall farm where you can watch state-of-the art farming machinery at work, and see tractors trundling around like any other day.

The best time to visit is in spring when hundreds of baby animals are born, and you’ll get to see Shetland pony and donkey foals, as well as piglets and lambs.

8. Woodlands

Preserved as a conservation area just north of Doncaster, Woodlands is a model village, built at the turn of the century  for miners at Brodsworth Colliery.

The Model Village Movement came about at the end of the 19th century, as industrialists realised the benefit of giving their workforce more desirable places to live.

At Woodlands there’s generous green in six hectares hemmed by some 120 houses.

These were devised to face the greenery rather than other houses as they would a typical industrial residential street.

9. Sprotbrough and Cusworth

This parish a short way west of Doncaster has three individual villages and some pristine expanses of countryside to recharge those batteries.

The Spotbrough Flash is a soothing patchwork of wetland, meadows and ash and sycamore woods on a limestone ridge.

In grassy areas there’s a sea of wildflowers like cowslips and orchids in summer.

The grounds of Cusworth Hall are dreamy too, with a serpentine lake with ducks and a glorious Georgian mansion at the top of the rise, designed by James Paine, one of the country’s foremost architects of the day.

The interior is a museum that shows how Doncastrians, rich and not so rich, lived in days gone by.

10. High Bradfield

This endearing little village is set within the boundary of the Peak District, in hilly scenery with vistas over the Bradfield Dale to the Derwent Edge escarpment and a massive sweep of the Dark Peak.

Nestling in pasture for sheep grazing, it’s a given that High Bradfield should be fine walking territory, and there’s some fascinating stuff to discover minutes on foot from the village.

One is Bailey Hill, which has all the signs of a Normal motte and bailey fortress, while Castle Hill was once a Saxon camp.

In the village, the Church of St Nicholas is one of a select few Grade I-listed buildings in the Sheffield region.

It takes full advantage of the majestic location and has a Saxon cross in its nave from the year 800.

11. Penistone

The likeable market town of Penistone is the highest in Yorkshire, at over 220 metres.

Here on the western side of the county, at the edge of the Pennines, the countryside starts to get dramatic.

There are five superb local walks starting in Penistone, entering a landscape of arable farms and pasture grazed by the hardy whitefaced woodland sheep.

And there will always be a pub close by for a meal or leisurely pint.

For people in need of outdoor seclusion you have the empty moorland around the Langsett Reservoir where you could stroll for hours and hardly meet a soul.

In the town see the Church of St John the Baptist, with a 16th-century tower and a nave and chancel that could be as old as the 11th century.

12. Elsecar

In rolling countryside between Rotherham and Barnsley, the village of Elsecar witnessed coal-mining activity from the 15th century to the 1980s.

Despite and maybe because of that history Elsecar has a lot of personality, on streets with old stone cottages and the converted vestiges of the mines’ outbuildings and iron forges.

At the Elsecar Heritage Centre are restored cobblestone streets and workshops that still have machinery to keep industrial historians riveted: The 18th-century Newcomen Beam Engine dates to 1795 and was designed to extract water from coal pits to allow for deeper exploration.

You could linger at the heritage centre for a good while, pottering around the sweet independent shops and taking a ride on the mile-long Elsecar Heritage Railway.

13. Worsbrough

A diffuse cluster of villages in dramatic countryside, Worsbrough has been settled since the 600s and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in the 11th century.

Worsbrough Mill on the River Dove is a working flour mill that still has both its water-powered mechanism that goes back to the 1600s and its 19th-century steam apparatus.

As well as offering a couple of hours of edification, the location is fabulous, within the 100-hectare Worsbrough Country Park.

Following the course of the former railway line through Worsbrough is a length of the Trans Pennine Trail, which spans both coasts in northern England.

Pause a moment at the 12th-century Church of St Mary, which has a mass grave for the 75 victims of the Darley Main Colliery disaster in 1849.

14. High Hoyland

A destination for a whirlwind visit, but one you’re sure to recall fondly, High Hoyland is a tiny hillside village northwest of Barnsley.

You’ll know why you came when you’re sitting in front of the Cherry Tree Inn and staring dumbstruck at the views down to Cannon Hall and then Barnsley in the distance.

You can park up and join a footpath to spend a little more time in this wonderful setting; there’s a old bridleway that runs along the ridge above the village.

Just up the road from High Hoyland is the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with works by Barbara Hepworth and one of the largest sets of Henry Moore’s bronzes anywhere.

The market town of Thorne has a few interesting stories to tell and some rare wilderness to navigate.

Thorne was a marshy region until the Dutchman Cornelius Vermuyden helped create polders (reclaimed farmland) in the 1600s by plotting a system of dykes.

You can see how the landscape once looked at the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve, more than 2,800 hectares of bogs and woods supporting more than 5,000 plant and animal species.

Birds like ringed plovers, lapwings and oystercatchers are all to be seen and heard in summer.

Inside Thorne, stretch your legs on the tow path of the Stainforth and Keadby canal and bring the little guys to the miniature that runs in summer at Thorne Park.

15 Best Places to Visit in South Yorkshire:

• Peak District
• Sprotbrough and Cusworth
• High Bradfield
• High Hoyland

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Wayne’s film will bridge the gap between two worlds

Film maker Wayne Sables will be providing the bridge between the South Yorkshire village of Elsecar and the Indian Ocean island of Réunion for a celebration of the 200th anniversary of a major piece of Victorian engineering excellence.

The Isle of Bourbon Suspension Bridge was designed by pioneering engineer Marc Brunel and crafted at the Hartop, Sorby and Littlewood Ironworks in Elsecar before being shipped to the island now called Réunion, where it was opened in 1824, spanning the Sainte-Suzanne River.

The site of the ironworks in Elsecar where all the casting work was carried out is now a playing field, offering virtually no clues to its industrial past.

In 2018, though, an archaeological excavation began at the site as part of the Elsecar Heritage Action Zone and Wentworth and Elsecar Great Place projects, revealing some of the community’s ironworks history.

And now the almost forgotten page of the village’s story will be celebrated by Doncaster film maker Wayne, who is creating a film and projection mapping piece for Barnsley Museums as part of the Building Bridges and Forging Ahead project.

Barnsley Museums has secured £90k funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the project to help protect, share and celebrate the village’s heritage, working closely with local schools, families, community groups, volunteers and partners from across Barnsley and South Yorkshire.

“The story of the bridge that went all the way from Elsecar to a small island in the Indian Ocean, where it is still in use to this day, is a fascinating but little know piece of South Yorkshire’s industrial past,” said Wayne.

“I’ll be working with children and community groups to explore the story of how the bridge was made and the impact it had on the community at the time.

“There will be some interviews and there will also be some animations too as we recreate the construction of the bridge, with the plan being to project the film onto a building in the centre of Elsecar in November.

“It’s a complex story and one that involves not only the outstanding achievements of the Industrial Revolution but also reflects the darker side of 19th century history as slavery continued on the island into the 1840s, long after the bridge was opened.

“I want the film to reflect every aspect of this complex period of world history, though at its heart it will be very much a celebration of the working lives of people in very different communities on opposite sides of the world.”